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[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

They would make a great replacement for chickens

[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Splenetic@lemm.ee 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They say it's the equivalent of a human giving birth to a 10yo. No wonder the mother's bugger off after laying and let the father deal with it

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

They gave all they had. And then some, Jesus.

Most animals have better births than humans but I, a human woman, would not want to be a kiwi bird (avian variety, IDK what words mean over there).

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago

Dear lord, I feel so bad

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

wait so where are their organs then

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Packed very tightly. I believe the mother can't eat for the last few days of carrying the egg.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I can see that from the photo.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Organs.zip

Or organs.tar.gz for my linuxbros.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think if your organs are all tarred up, you have a problem

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yea, it's called smoking. They're probably French.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 17 points 2 days ago

If you zoom in there is a little bit of space left

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there's always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 points 23 hours 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

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Their call is like the lament of a million souls...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days 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.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

And it can hear you.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

The cacophony of metal clanging, nades blowing and panicked dashing between levels.

Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thank god they include the "bird" and "fruit", else i would've thought they're talking about human sized human.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, isn't that kiwi holding a very small bird, equating then to the size of a pumpkin?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's actually kiwi holding a kiwi feeding on kiwi.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i mean you will always see them photoshopped to look like a sliced kiwi fruit

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

That’s not their natural state? I’m learning so much in this thread.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: Direct link to the scream for those without.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's no sponsor in that video.

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

SponsorBlock is useful for more than just skipping sponsored segments, you know. The name is misleading; It's way more powerful than that. You can also add "Skip intro" and "skip credits" buttons to videos, just like it's Netflix. Or skip filler and go straight to the meat of the video, like I just did.

Even if you don't mind sponsored segments, you should still give it a try. Its got a lot of useful features. Just disable the sponsor skipping feature and enable the other stuff if you want.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 day ago

It screamed out all the angy.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've seen this before and it's still surprises me. I didn't think they were as small as kiwi fruit. Maybe about the size of a softball but not as round.

[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are différent types. Some are small, some are bigger. But the smallest are around the size of a rockmelon.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TIL cantaloupe is called rockmelon in your part of the world.

[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago

TIL a cantaloupe is a rockmelon haha.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

Well I'll be damned. TIL