kiwis!
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 09 Jun 01:40
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 01:49 next collapse

Their call is like the lament of a million souls…

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 02:17 collapse

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.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 01:54 next collapse

Also:

<img alt="" src="https://facts.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kiwi-Egg.jpg">

ch00f@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 02:59 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8652ddde-d662-4abe-9bf1-4dcfd827ec64.jpeg">

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

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 03:40 next collapse

wait so where are their organs then

huppakee@feddit.nl on 09 Jun 03:53 next collapse

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

ch00f@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 04:42 next collapse

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

oo1@lemmings.world on 10 Jun 06:46 collapse

Yeah, I can see that from the photo.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 09 Jun 07:11 collapse

they get compressed.

nebulaone@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 13:31 collapse

Organs.zip

Or organs.tar.gz for my linuxbros.

lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Jun 06:26 collapse

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

RedAggroBest@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 06:37 collapse

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

Mortoc@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 03:53 next collapse

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

Splenetic@lemm.ee on 09 Jun 03:57 collapse

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 on 09 Jun 10:12 collapse

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 on 09 Jun 09:42 next collapse

Dear lord, I feel so bad

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 10 Jun 04:16 collapse

They would make a great replacement for chickens

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 09 Jun 01:55 next collapse

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

Drusas@fedia.io on 09 Jun 01:58 next collapse

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 on 09 Jun 09:44 collapse

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

Drusas@fedia.io on 10 Jun 01:46 collapse

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

aim_at_me@lemmy.nz on 10 Jun 03:48 collapse

TIL a cantaloupe is a rockmelon haha.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 09 Jun 02:46 next collapse

full grown Kiwi

<img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/e39fb6a2-15af-454e-babd-6acd25a39b57.webp">

NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space on 09 Jun 05:23 collapse

I can hear this picture.

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 09 Jun 06:40 next collapse

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

Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.

Klear@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 07:00 collapse

And it can hear you.

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 02:51 next collapse

And they sound like death.

Psythik@lemm.ee on 09 Jun 03:01 next collapse

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 on 09 Jun 03:04 collapse

There’s no sponsor in that video.

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

Psythik@lemm.ee on 09 Jun 03:08 collapse

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.

huppakee@feddit.nl on 09 Jun 03:55 next collapse

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 on 09 Jun 13:48 collapse

It screamed out all the angy.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 09 Jun 06:38 next collapse

Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat

Nangijala@feddit.dk on 09 Jun 09:50 collapse

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

LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz on 09 Jun 03:39 next collapse

Well I’ll be damned. TIL

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 03:44 next collapse

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

zerofk@lemmy.zip on 10 Jun 06:59 collapse

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

bss03@infosec.pub on 09 Jun 05:40 next collapse

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

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 09 Jun 06:35 next collapse

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

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Jun 09:12 collapse

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

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 09 Jun 10:23 collapse

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

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 09 Jun 07:29 next collapse

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 on 09 Jun 10:08 collapse

I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 09 Jun 19:51 next collapse

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 on 10 Jun 05:16 collapse

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.

tamal3@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 20:18 collapse

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

blackstampede@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 15:16 next collapse

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 on 10 Jun 06:53 collapse

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 on 10 Jun 07:15 collapse

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

blargle@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 04:31 collapse

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