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violetsandshrikes · 2 years
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Save The Kiwi NZ has announced that on Saturday 13th August 2:46am, “Tor” has hatched - the first kiwi chick of the season!
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ilikevintagebooks · 11 months
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The Apteryx
-The Wild Beasts, Birds, and Reptiles of the World 1892
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thasallweare · 3 months
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Apteryx from the birds of the tropics series
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tbn1zzy0b8 · 1 year
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salty-puppy · 1 year
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Goofy-ass birds
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pazzesco · 5 months
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I will never complain about roadrunners again. This obnoxious little MFer sounds like a baby dinosaur
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fluffalapteryx · 5 months
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apteryxparvus · 7 months
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how i stalk my crushes on social networks: *50 weeks deep into their instagram*
how i stalk my profs: *finds all the scientific articles they wrote and reads them*
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squawkoverflow · 2 years
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A new variant has been added!
Southern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis) © Katie
It hatches from audible, black, brown, certain, clear, dark, harsh, many, much, native, new, nocturnal, reddish, and throaty eggs.
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podartists · 7 days
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Mantell’s Apteryx (Apteryx mantelli) | Joseph Wolf | Zoological sketches v.1 (1861) | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Flickr | Public domain
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uncharismatic-fauna · 5 months
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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
If you have poor eyesight, you have something in common with the kiwi! This species of bird is nocturnal, and they rely on other senses light smell and hearing to find their prey. As a result, most kiwis have extremely poor vision, and there's even small but healthy population of completely blind individuals. The best part? Scientists believe the gene responsible for the reduction in vision is the Sonic hedgehog gene.
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(Image: A North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) by Tui de Roy)
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cypherdecypher · 1 year
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Animal of the Day!
Great Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx haastii)
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(Photo by Max De Beer)
Conservation Status- Vulnerable
Habitat- Northern South Island of New Zealand
Size (Weight/Length)- 3 kg; 50 cm
Diet- Insects; Worms; Crayfish
Cool Facts- Kiwi’s got the shortest evolutionary stick. The great spotted kiwi is the largest kiwi species. These flightless birds are nocturnal and spend their days sleeping in burrows. Monogamous pairs are aggressive to other kiwi’s and humans alike, attempting to chase them away from burrows. If you thought human pregnancy was difficult, a female great spotted kiwi would laugh in your face. The egg makes up a fourth of a female’s body weight. The female has to survive on fat reserves as she does not eat the entire five month gestation period. As soon as the egg is laid, the male takes over the incubation process. Once the chick hatches, the parents leave it to fend for itself with no regrets. Invasive predators in a mix with habitat destruction have dropped the great spotted kiwi population by 45% in half a century. 
Rating- 13/10 (The fruit was named after the bird.)
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nerdchoun · 8 months
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Animals I really really want in Planet Zoo one day 🥺💛
Manatee (Trichechus)
Bush Dog (Speothos Venaticus)
Takin (Budocoras Taxicolor) added DEC 13 2023 LETS GOOOO 🥳
Tanuki (Nyctereutes Viverrinus)
Sechuran Fox (Lycalopex Sechurae)
LITERALLY ANY BIRDS MORE BIRDS PLEASE? REAL BIRDS? Not exhibit birds.... Habitat animals....
Secretary Bird (Sagittarius Serpentarius)
Shoebill (Balaeniceps Rex)
Owls !!!!!!!!! Pls give me owls
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus Matschiei)
Japanese Serow (Capricornis Crispus)
Aye-Aye (Daubentonia Madagascariensis)
Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus Viverrinus)
Mink/American or European
Coatimundi (Nasua Narica)
Kiwi (Apteryx Mantelli) added SEPT 19 2023
Gelada (Theropithecus Gelada)
Ecuadorian Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Cassiquiarensis Macrodon)
Bald Uakari (Cacajao Calvus)
Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus Hermaphroditus)
Cuscus (any kind tbh)
Kākāpō (Strigops Habroptila)
Kowari (Dasyuroides Byrne)
Harpy Eagle (Harpia Harpyja)
Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias Japonicus)
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus) added SEPT 19 2023
Lowland Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus)
Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
Rays of any kind (stingray? Spotted eagle ray!?)
Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri)
Kea (Nestor notabilis)
Puffin of any kind pls pls pls
Eurasian Coot (not really exciting but I love them so much)
Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
There are probably more...... But for now here's what I got 🫡
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BRACKET D
White-Throated Rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri)
These flightless birds went extinct after their island sank but somehow evolved their flighted selves back into flightless existence after it came back up! What the fuck.
Last time I had these polls running, I looked into it a bit more. This is apparently the SECOND TIME this has happened to these freaks???
VERSUS
Kiwi (genus Apteryx)
They have no wings, their eggs are fucking massive. Their feathers are like fur. They have huge whiskers. They’re nocturnal. Basically they’re rodents if rodents were birds.
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metmuseum · 7 months
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Apteryx, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. 1889. Credit line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/420718
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animacules · 10 months
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Kiwi Birds (Apteryx sp.)
Kiwi birds, the only 5 species in the order Apterygiformes, are a chicken-sized bird endemic to New Zealand. They're the smallest species of ratites, a group of otherwise large, flightless birds: ostriches, emus, cassowaries, and rheas.
Kiwis are nocturnal generalists who fill a similar niche to rats or raccoons in their natural habitats. They have an unusually powerful sense of smell, an uncommon trait in birds. Kiwis also have one of the largest eggs in comparison to body size; once thought to be a vestigial remnant of their larger ancestors, but it's now theorized that the massive egg size is so young can develop more fully before hatching and setting out on their own.
Interestingly, Kiwis used to share New Zealand with one of the largest ratites, the now-extinct Moa. However, despite their shared range, Moas and Kiwis weren't especially closely related for ratites; in fact, the Moa's closest living relatives are Tinamous, a flighted bird found in South America, suggesting modern ratites actually evolved flightlessness convergently, rather than having a single flightless ancestor that spread across the world. However, Kiwis are much more closely related to the largest ratites, and quite possibly the largest birds in history, the now-extinct Elephant Birds of the order Aepyornithiformes.
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