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  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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    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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      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
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        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

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    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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      I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct

      • tamal3@lemmy.world
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        Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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        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
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          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.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    Also:

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
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      They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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        They would make a great replacement for chickens

      • Mortoc@lemmy.world
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        That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…

        • Splenetic@lemm.ee
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          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

          • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            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
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        Dear lord, I feel so bad

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        wait so where are their organs then

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
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          Packed very tightly. I believe the mother can’t eat for the last few days of carrying the egg.

          • oo1@lemmings.world
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            Yeah, I can see that from the photo.

        • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          they get compressed.

          • nebulaone@lemmy.world
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            Organs.zip

            Or organs.tar.gz for my linuxbros.

            • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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              I think if your organs are all tarred up, you have a problem

              • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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                Yea, it’s called smoking. They’re probably French.

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

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    Thank god they include the “bird” and “fruit”, else i would’ve thought they’re talking about human sized human.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Wait, isn’t that kiwi holding a very small bird, equating then to the size of a pumpkin?

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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        Maybe it’s actually kiwi holding a kiwi feeding on kiwi.

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    full grown Kiwi

    • NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space
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      I can hear this picture.

      • Klear@lemmy.world
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        And it can hear you.

      • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zip
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        The cacophony of metal clanging, nades blowing and panicked dashing between levels.

        Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    Their call is like the lament of a million souls…

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      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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    i mean you will always see them photoshopped to look like a sliced kiwi fruit

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

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    And they sound like death.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
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      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
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        There’s no sponsor in that video.

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

        • Psythik@lemm.ee
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          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.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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      I love that clip so much. It will never not be funny af to me.

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      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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        It screamed out all the angy.

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

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

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          TIL a cantaloupe is a rockmelon haha.

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    I have a prior source to refute that: https://www.arjen.eu/2011/09/how-to-prepare-a-kiwi/ /s

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    Well I’ll be damned. TIL

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!

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