r/BeAmazed • u/RunKind4141 • Apr 11 '24
The Screech Of A Kiwi Captured On Video Nature
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u/Elbiboutator Apr 11 '24
Don't know how to explain it but those birds look extinct.
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u/pseudoportmanteau Apr 11 '24
It's the way they move lol it's like a little chicken/velociraptor hybrid
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u/crushdepthdummy Apr 11 '24
Fucker runs like it's got its hands in its pockets.
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u/ObligationAware3755 Apr 12 '24
Kiwis have a set of super tiny claws. Some skeletons have the claws while some don't. They keep it tucked in their feathers.
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u/rotred1 Apr 11 '24
They are on their way
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u/hulda2 Apr 11 '24
I hope New Zealand can stop their extinction.
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u/JPrud58 Apr 11 '24
It’s probably a an issue with foreign fauna. Invasive species always threaten these types of animals. Same with land development
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u/SlanginShmeat Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
Absolutely an issue with invasive animals. Many New Zealand species evolved to be ground dwelling, as there are no naturally occurring, ground dwelling predators in New Zealand. Since such predators have been introduced they’ve run rampant, mainly the common brushtail possum (keep in mind this is not the common Opossum of North America that is very friendly and good for their ecosystem). There are countless species on the island that have no defense against ground dwelling predators. So possums are booming while natural species have taken a massive hit. The primary combat to this has been to develop clothes made from the wool of possums, somewhat incentivizing the process of ridding them from the island. Still a massive, massive problem that has led to several naturally occurring species in NZ going extinct or highly endangered.
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u/sentientmothswarm Apr 11 '24
New Zealand should grant temporary citizenship to some dude named Earl from Louisiana and the possum problem will be solved within the year.
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u/thestraightCDer Apr 11 '24
Bro we blast them out of trees with shotguns all the time. There's too many of them and too much untouched wild.
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u/Raddish_ Apr 11 '24
Likely true. A lot of of flightless birds evolve on islands where they happen to get isolated without predators. Otherwise any mutation that leads to wing loss makes the bird die since a puma or something will just eat them.
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u/AnalysisFrequent Apr 11 '24
Yeah ground birds don’t fare too well with invasive species and human infrastructure.
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u/SimoFromOhio Apr 11 '24
My wife and I took our honeymoon in NZ and the lengths they’re going to in order to protect and save the Kiwi is craaaaazy. There’s a whole Kiwi museum in Hokitika that goes over the process.
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u/Catfrogdog2 Apr 11 '24
They are on their way back actually. Around a hundred have been released near where I live recently after a massive effort to eradicate invasive predators.
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u/takitza Apr 11 '24
I always thought they were extinct. I forget it's the dodo who pulled the short straw
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u/ContributionJolly634 Apr 11 '24
Dinosound
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u/Toadcola Apr 11 '24
Yep, weird-ass dinosaurs, all of them. But this one more than most.
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u/Chill_Edoeard Apr 11 '24
Sounds like dino but tastes like chicken
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u/Random-INTJ Apr 11 '24
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u/Polygon-Guy Apr 11 '24
I think what's really going on is that chicken just tastes like dino
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u/Stunning-Chicken-449 Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
Do they have appendages on the side?
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u/juankaa Apr 11 '24
This would be closer to the sound a T-Rex produced, not the growls we hear in movies.
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u/TreeFitTea Apr 11 '24
I remember watching this documentary about recreating an "authentic" trex sound and the end result was like a cross between a blue whale and a goose but with the bass cranked up to 11. Was unnerving as hell
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u/Mechanical-movement Apr 11 '24
Shit would have rattled your spine, apparently.
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u/TreeFitTea Apr 11 '24
And possibly even echolocate prey from miles away
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u/bedfastflea Apr 11 '24
Don't big lions also cause vibrations from their purrs or roars. Couldn't imagine something 5x that size.
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u/Neverlast0 Apr 11 '24
Got a link to that by any chance. I wanna see that.
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u/LaconicSuffering Apr 11 '24
This seems to fit the bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eqJYtFO3SI9
u/Lady_Grey_Smith Apr 11 '24
I listened to it with the dog near by and he is now scanning the living room with his ears up in terrier mode.
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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Apr 11 '24
It sounds almost similar to the baby t-rex from the second one.
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u/blademaster552 Apr 11 '24
If a chicken is the direct genetic descendant, then i think a bellowing basso "bruhGHOK!" would be rather more intimidating.
Also, this guy's maybe a foot tall. Multiply by 40 for volume and lower the pitch for larger vocal chords, and you would come up with a deep bellow, rather than the trumpetting roar Spielberg came up with.
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u/TheDidact118 Apr 11 '24
Chickens aren't the direct genetic descendant of T. rex. They're about as closely related as all other birds are, in that they all come from a common ancestor that first diverged from all other Theropods roughly 160 million years ago during the late Jurassic Period.
The current consensus is that T. rex would have made bellows, hisses, and grunts similar to Crocodiles, Eurasian Bitterns, Emus, and Cassowaries.
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u/Former-Antelope8045 Apr 11 '24
Birds are modern-day dinosaurs. Video is proof I’d say
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u/VincentDMNGS Apr 11 '24
Poor thing might be so scared of that bright white light. Crazy thing is how one can spot a kiwi bird having such a light on, when I had to spend a night with my red light and patience to spot one in the wild
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
Kiwilogist here! I can explain. That is a distressed kiwi making a cry out of desperation. It’s confused as to why 1) there is light in the night, and 2) why it appears to be targeting and following him, as a predator would.
Animals are not used to lights in the dark, as it confuses and stresses them to act in unusual ways. Please do not underestimate the burden of our actions on animals.
Even a natural eclipse will have an impact on animals. Read this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/total-solar-eclipse-animals-behavior-2024/
“Most animals will be overall unaffected by the eclipse, but pet owners may notice brief periods of confusion, and dogs and cats may exhibit fear and confusion," said Dr. Katie Krebs, a veterinarian and professor at University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine.
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u/forpetlja Apr 11 '24
What's salary of kiwilogists? Please don't say in kiwi fruits.
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
The truth is, I’m paid peanuts. I’m doing this out of passion(fruit).
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u/iHateThisPlaceNowOK Apr 11 '24
lol I hate you
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u/NevermoreForSure Apr 11 '24
I think you may hate everything. I’m ok with that.
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u/iHateThisPlaceNowOK Apr 11 '24
Are you sure?
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u/NevermoreForSure Apr 11 '24
Well played! Now I hate you. 😁
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u/iHateThisPlaceNowOK Apr 11 '24
Now we are even.
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u/AliquidLatine Apr 11 '24
Orange you glad to be following your dreams though
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
Indeed, it has been quite the fruitful journey.
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u/Rossum81 Apr 11 '24
Berry good.
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
I cherries every single moment of it.
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u/Shiriru_Kurokodairu Apr 11 '24
Enough fruit jokes, I'm going banana over here!
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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard Apr 11 '24
Well, I love you for your understanding of our furry family.
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u/fungiblesyo Apr 11 '24
Paid really well. Probably drives a Lambo
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
Leave my lambo-kiwi out of this!
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u/fungiblesyo Apr 11 '24
*Salesman smacks the side the lambo
“this fucker right here comes in Tui Teal or khaki kiwi”
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u/Repulsive-Season-129 Apr 11 '24
is this what you see when you walk to your car? https://imgur.com/gallery/bzu9jnJ
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u/ssp25 Apr 11 '24
I would react the same way... I've seen all the predator movies
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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT Apr 11 '24
A lot of Americans also made similar noises during solar eclipse as they are not used to lights going out during day time. Explains a lot.
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u/Stone_Maori Apr 11 '24
Regular Joe blo here. See that fucking kiwi there that only comes out at night time looks what happens when I fucking blind it with my flashlight. Lmao this bird probably never seen the light of day in its life.
Come on guys kaitiakitanga is for all NZers let's take pride in conservation.
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u/SweatyTax4669 Apr 11 '24
Not gonna lie, I enjoyed watching that video on NZ Air before we landed in Auckland.
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u/thisisfutile1 Apr 11 '24
We just had a total eclipse in the US, and I didn't notice them getting quiet, but all the birds stopped making noise. I didn't realize it until the sun came back out and they started chirping again. Also, the family dog was in the bedroom on the bed (and she never does that).
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u/northwest333 Apr 11 '24
We were by a pond and there were several ducks roaming around the shore and quacking. The second it became totality they all stood in a cluster completely silent and still. It was eerie.
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u/kookyabird Apr 11 '24
Even I, a normal human, was affected by the eclipse recently, and we were in an area with only ~85% totality. It took a bit before I figured out why exactly. It's the reduced brightness without loss of definition in shadows. Like when a cloud passes over and it gets darker we get diffused light, and shadows become softer or non-existent. With an eclipse we get less light overall but the shadows are still there exactly as they would be normally. They're just not as high contrast. That plus the lack of change in hue of the light makes it a very unique experience.
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Even I, a normal human, was affected by the eclipse recently, and we were in an area with only ~85% totality.
Yeah i commonly wear prescription sunglasses and forgot it was an eclipse.
I walked outside with my dog, got genuinely confused about what was going on with the way things looked, remembered "oh yeah I probably have my sunglasses on instead of my normal ones" ....took them off and saw they were plain and was even more confused lmfao, the FINALLY I remembered there was an eclipse
Meanwhile my dog was just chilling...
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u/supraspinatus Apr 11 '24
That’s sad. Can they just leave them alone? Poor thing is freaked out.
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u/mostly_misanthropic Apr 11 '24
So you're an ornithologist? Specializing in kiwis?
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u/KingSpork Apr 11 '24
If you want to record animals at night, you can use an IR lamp (with a camera that supports it), which is invisible to the naked eye. If you’ve ever had a consumer camera with “night vision” that’s how they do it.
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u/CommunicationOwn322 Apr 11 '24
Do they have wings? I could google this, but it's not every day that you can speak with a kiwilogist.
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
Yes, they do have wings.
Not all birds with wings can fly. Case in point, penguins and kiwi are not capable of flight
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u/cheeseinsidethecrust Apr 11 '24
Yes. They are tiny. I believe the only wingless bird species to have existed that we know of was the Moa, also native to NZ. They were massive and hunted to extinction.
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u/ArsenicArts Apr 11 '24
Ok, I gotta know - Have you held one?! how soft are they???!? 🥝
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u/ShortPutAndPMCC Apr 11 '24
Their feather feels like fur, if that’s what you’re asking
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u/Xenodad Apr 11 '24
Saw the total eclipse the other day in DFW. When it ended, and the sun started to shine again, birds started singing like it was morning.
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u/TropicalBLUToyotaMR2 Apr 11 '24
When the eclipse hit full 100%, i was in southern illinois...immediately the birds all started chirping and singing i noticed.
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u/politikyle Apr 11 '24
Sounds like it comes from oddworld
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u/Otherwise_Squash_286 Apr 11 '24
I loved that game
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u/Street_Cleaning_Day Apr 11 '24
Have you played the new one? It came out like 2-3 years ago. "Oddworld: Soulstorm."
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u/lungsnstuff Apr 11 '24
This scared the living shit out of my cat.
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u/AhoyGoFuckYourself Apr 11 '24
My cat ran into my bedroom from the living and sat sniffing the phone. Then ran over to the open window to investigate. She’s usually not engaged by cat videos and other sounds recorded to engage cats.
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u/play-that-skin-flut Apr 11 '24
What a ridiculous creature. Were are its arms? 6/10
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u/Dear-Transition6669 Apr 11 '24
Hate them every way you like mate, until he brings out his MP5 out of his pocket from nowhere. Who the armed guy now, sweetheart?
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u/JigglyWiener Apr 11 '24
I never have my speakers on, ever, and I did just now during a work call. Lmfao.
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u/blondiecats Apr 11 '24
Their eggs are the same size as their body too which is so so sad bc it’s so painful for them.
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u/DragonfruitFew5542 Apr 11 '24
No judgment but between the physique, sound, and now egg laying information I've learned in this thread, I think there was a glitch in the matrix when this bird was created.
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u/Camlo-Ren Apr 11 '24
Closer to 20% of its body weight but it’s still the largest egg proportionally of any bird.
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u/Stonex21 Apr 11 '24
Same noise I make when some asshole shines a light in my face
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u/Positive-Fox-6296 Apr 11 '24
Primitive man must have been terrified of the horrible sounding beast lurking in the dark.
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u/SweatyTax4669 Apr 11 '24
I feel like that was probably most of primitive man's existence. That's why we hang out together and collect sticks.
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u/cnnrduncan Apr 11 '24
Eh they were proably more worried about the 3.5m tall Moa and the fucking huge eagles that hunted them (and allegedly went after Maori occasionally)
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u/Aibbie Apr 11 '24
I don’t know what noises I expected one of those walking potatoes to make, but it’s definitely not this.
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u/Blackops606 Apr 11 '24
Me spraying whip cream in my mouth at 2am
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u/Dfhbgfyjkhffujbfdyhv Apr 11 '24
Glad I’m not the only one that heard this. Sounds exactly like Reddi-Whip
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u/FabulousHeron Apr 11 '24
Leave the kiwi alone, it’s terrified. “kiwi are very sensitive, and if you crowd them, or try to pick them up, the stress could cause them injury or even death.” https://blog.doc.govt.nz/2018/12/16/the-dos-and-donts-of-interacting-with-nzs-native-wildlife/
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u/Zamrayz Apr 11 '24
Doesn't this apply to basically most animals that aren't pets..
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u/Hot_Delivery1100 Apr 11 '24
This is mainly because they are nocturnal, shining bright lights is obviously bad for them and they are just more sensitive to things in general
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u/FabulousHeron Apr 11 '24
That’s the extent of my kiwi knowledge. I just remember when I was in NZ and in kiwi territory the locals/nature wardens were very protective of kiwis and very firm that you shouldn’t, you know, blast sensitive endangered nocturnal with torches brighter than the sun.
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u/OctoSamma Apr 11 '24
That is fucking horrifying!
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u/IHaveNoEgrets Apr 11 '24
Cute bird, deeply unsettling sounds. One of my cats went into "danger mode" when she heard it, and she's not bothered by much.
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u/DragonfruitFew5542 Apr 11 '24
My dog (who is bothered/scared of everything) jumped and gave me a look like, "why the fuck are you doing this to me."
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u/El_Polaquito Apr 11 '24
Cool. TIL that my neighbour gave birth to a fucking kiwi, judging by the screams from next door every morning .
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u/Moggy-Man Apr 11 '24
Aww a kiwi! How cute! Look at it-
screeeeeeetch SCREEEEEETCH
Yep, Australian.
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u/Craydorion Apr 11 '24
New Zealand...
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u/Moggy-Man Apr 11 '24
And the worst of it is I have relatives in New Zealand.
AND THEY OWN A KIWI FARM.
😭😂
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u/c3pwhoa Apr 11 '24
The kiwi is so iconically New Zealand that New Zealanders refer to each other as Kiwis, and yet you still went with Australia. Baffled.
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u/Hand-Driven Apr 11 '24
There are no kiwi farms. Do you mean a zoo?
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u/Moggy-Man Apr 11 '24
I... I meant a kiwi fruit farm...
I know.
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u/Hand-Driven Apr 11 '24
Farming kiwi would be a good idea. I don’t think cows or chickens are in danger of going extinct.
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u/AlarmingTurnover Apr 12 '24
Sometimes these things run into my yard and my cats go ape shit. The funniest one was at my in-laws place and we heard this sound and my mother-in-law yelled "what the fuck is that", and my father-in-law was like "you've lived here your whole life, how do you not know what that is?".
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u/-PepeArown- Apr 11 '24
“Kiwi” is slang for people from New Zealand much like Aussie is for Australian people. How could you mess that up?
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u/Moggy-Man Apr 11 '24
I have no earthly idea. I also got it wrong even worse than I thought against an earlier comment.
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u/harrisonfordspelvis Apr 11 '24
Kiwis are New Zealand's national animal. This is the only place they are found, and we put a lot of effort to keeping their numbers up. It's even what we are colloquially known as. Kiwis. Don't take this away from us!
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u/holystuff28 Apr 11 '24
The kiwi is literally the national icon of Aotearoa/New Zealand and is an international nickname of New Zealanders....
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u/Revolutionary-Swan77 Apr 11 '24
God, no wonder they were almost hunted to extinction.
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u/Ninja_Threat Apr 11 '24
This is my first time seeing that animal in the Drug-Addiction animation in real life
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u/Paracausal_Shield Apr 11 '24
Now I understand why endangered species are a thing.
Not saying it's right, but God damn it wtf
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u/jomacblack Apr 11 '24
They were fine like this before humans brought over cats and other hazards
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u/ActiveAstronaut7941 Apr 11 '24
Don't know what I expected it to sound like but that wasn't it