kiwis!

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• blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )

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• blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • skye@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct

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    • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank god they include the “bird” and “fruit”, else i would’ve thought it’s a human sized human.

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• LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well I’ll be damned. TIL

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they sound like death.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love that clip so much. It will never not be funny af to me.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat

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  • huppakee@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting how it enters the stage as a creature from hell and then it becomes softer and they walk off all cute.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It screamed out all the angy.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man I love SponsorBlock. Saved me 12 seconds, nearly half the video.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s no sponsor in that video.

      … oh god, Youtube’s fucking up the video itself to fuck with adblockers.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  full grown Kiwi

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also:

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They would make a great replacement for chickens

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    • Mortoc@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their call is like the lament of a million souls…

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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