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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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Their call is like the lament of a million souls...
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full grown Kiwi
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Thank god they include the "bird" and "fruit", else i would've thought they're talking about human sized human.
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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.
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Someone grow a kiwi fruit that is as big as a kiwi bird, stat!
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 have a prior source to refute that: https://www.arjen.eu/2011/09/how-to-prepare-a-kiwi/ /s
Well I'll be damned. TIL
Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )
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