Their call is like the lament of a million souls…
kiwis!
Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also, they tear up the forest floor like mad. It looks like the most destructive chicken has come through after a kiwi has been there.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Kiwi restoration project is going quite well. In 2018 we were hoping for conservation efforts to get a 2% (2600) increase in pop and they managed 7000 instead.
The strat is to raise them in a safe place until they’re big and then let them go. The teenagers and adults have less trouble surviving its the babies who are super vulnerable.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 week ago
I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
tamal3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Man I love SponsorBlock. Saved me 12 seconds, nearly half the video.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
There’s no sponsor in that video.
… oh god, Youtube’s fucking up the video itself to fuck with adblockers.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 week ago
I love that clip so much. It will never not be funny af to me.
huppakee@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Interesting how it enters the stage as a creature from hell and then it becomes softer and they walk off all cute.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It screamed out all the angy.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thank god they include the “bird” and “fruit”, else i would’ve thought it’s a human sized human.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I appreciate that they continued to use a different fruit as a measurement even though there’s no reason why they couldn’t compare the kiwi to some other class of object.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
I compare everything to hail. Gold ball sized hail, base ball sized hail, pea sized hail… It makes it really easy because you don’t need to think of different objects.
skye@lemmy.world 1 week ago
wouldn’t you need to do ‘hail sized pea, hail sized baseball’ etc? otherwise you are comparing the size of hail to other objects, rather than other objects to hail
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Well I’ll be damned. TIL
blargle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Also:
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ch00f@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.
Mortoc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 week ago
They would make a great replacement for chickens