Hi! Ornithologist here. Kiwis lay such huge eggs because they're not only ratites, they're precocial. That means, the baby is completely independent once it hatches. The poor mom can't even eat for a few days before laying, because it's so huge! If I had to lay an egg the size of my entire body, I wouldn't want anything to do with it afterwards, either. She walks away, and the dad incubates the egg.
Kiwis are only one of of two or three ratities that the males incubate exclusively. The others are ostriches ( I think) and emus. Long live the dinos! 😂
@@kiwi8. my favorite type of kiwi is the one with green guts and brown slightly fuzzy skin. their eggs are actually super tiny, they just have a lof of them. they hurt really bad if you eat them before they are fully grown, though.
Look up "Tsetse Fly giving birth" A Blood-sucking fly, that gives birth to one massive Pre-fed maggot, (instead of laying a cluster of eggs) Probably the biggest baby in relation of the mother's body size in the animal kingdom.
We are trying so goddamn hard. We've got a bunch of fully walled nature reserves and small island reserves and are slowly building back the environment
No they're not? Even things like Moles and bats can usually see just not very well. Being blind would in fact impair their chances of living quite a bit when it comes to mating, nest building and foraging
@@johndiddilyjoe6258 chiropterologist here 👋🏻. Bats are not blind, they are not rodents, and it’s very unlikely for you to catch a disease from a bat. Just wanted to through that out there because I hate seeing people say “bats are blind rodents that’ll give you diseases.”
Try staying at my cabin and hearing chewing and stomping noises outside all night, put that on top of hearing mice fight inside the walls. One time I went outside to put some stuff away and a fing mountain lion growled at me it used to hang out on my property because deer traveled through there every night to get to the river then head up into the mountains before morning.
I live on a farm, I know those nightly noises well. I definately relate to the big cat outside we have them, and we seem to have lots of coons, possums, And a healthy herd of mice living with us... ah country life!
They are never going to do that. In the early 60's my uncle found a young one that was caught by a farm cat. They protected it and it imprinted on the family dog. It was gentle as can be with my cousins who were little kids. It would come back to a burrow under the farm shed in the night sometimes. Then for a few years it would call from close by in the bush in the night and wake them up.
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter oh I see. She is holding it in the approved manner, that's the only way to safely hold a kiwi that's not a tiny chick. I've never known an eye to be poked with a break. Plenty of people have been raked by claws and that's why you hold their ankles in one hand and cradle the neck in your elbow and cup their back in the other palm. 100% the only approved way to hold them.
a kiwi mate was telling me about another bird they have thats a real menace. they dismantle your car if theres something inside that they want. i think he said they have a thing for butter and are extremely smart.
Yeah that’s a kea, which have been known to strip the flesh of domestic sheep to drink their blood. This is due to a behavior they had when the 12-foot moa existed, able to ignore the bloodletting, unlike livestock
New Zealand is fascinating. The amount of large birds that once called New Zealand home, is absolutely astounding. Up until relatively recently, moas, and massive eagles roamed New Zealand. Now those birds (to name a few) are extinct. The closest living relative to the moa is actually the kiwi!
The Kiwi had a similar evolution to the Dodo bird. Living in an environment with no predators and an area rich with food made them remove the need for flight and grow to a large size
OUCH! Thank u. I actually knew this but the visual is... well some things u cant unsee right? Yikes!😬 just found u and i love, love, LOVE your channel. 😁👍👍
Again, even the music you incorporate into these videos just makes it even more relaxing and a joy to watch. Its just good stuff. Its only a matter of time before some major broadcaster drafts you. Thanks for the entertainment and keep it up!
Kiwi egg inside the Kiwi somehow remind me of those tiny little one shot guns that you flick out of your sleeve. ONE SHOT EGG! PLOOFS! Ya got laid, egg.
To make certain they don't become extinct they should move a pair to another island with zero predators and establish another colony. Hopefully they will protect them somehow.
Yes you can totally save a population with a pair of kiwi birds. Disregarding inbreeding and diseases, this is literally what zoos and animal preservation sites already so.
@@lankeowker5878 putting animals in captivity to save them is not the answer. Especially for elephants. Did you know elephants die of sorrow in captivity?Elephant exibits are frequently re stocked to replace those that died. They wont even raise young successfully. Endangered animals must be moved out of the danger zones their lands have become and introduced to new habitat. The captive breeding doesn't work because they are placed right back into the danger zones and have lost the skills to survive because of captivity. There is always more suitable habitat if only they would abolish the theory that moving things is bad. A good cheap paperback book to read is The New Wild by Fred Pearce
@@kaylamartin3053 Yeah I meant to say extinct relative not living relative. That was a typo lol. Will be quick to edit it, thanks for the correction. Reply made: 8:12 PM Monday, March 13 2023
@@kyumu Meh, he needs to do better than that lol (if he's making fun of me). To be honest, I've gotten so used to people insulting and making fun of me that I just laugh and call them a waste of time. I've gotten so used to it that I just use the negativity to get stronger positively and mentally. Words are just words in the end, even if they have meaning and definitions, I can't let them get to me. Reply made: 12:01 PM Friday, March 24 2023
So places maybe can hold them probably a island with many food and no predator. So the food is from new Zealand And if a species of flying bird came to the island i hope they evolve to create an ecosystem
3 Fun Kiwi Facts: 1.Kiwis have their nostrils on the end of their beaks unlike all other birds, so they can sniff out their food in the ground. 2.They have the biggest egg to body ratio of any bird. 3.The males sit on the egg.
Back in the 80's I use to listen to them calling out to each other at night all the time, but after a visit in 2015 back home it was dead silent during the nights .
As a kiwi human, I know one fun fact about the kiwi bird is that they have a tinest beak. Beaks are measured from the nostrils to the tip of the beak. Kiwi birds nostrils are at the tip of their beak.
The kiwi sounds like we encountered a pokemon
Yup
Reminded me of the old school red and blue pokémon sounds, where they sounded like weird animals recorded on a toaster with a can of soup mic lol.
Yeah exactly, like Doduo or sumshiz.
@@NinjaPhooka doduo looks a lot like a kiwi tbh you could tell me that kiwis were the inspiration and i would believe you
Dang, beat me to it lol
Hi! Ornithologist here. Kiwis lay such huge eggs because they're not only ratites, they're precocial. That means, the baby is completely independent once it hatches. The poor mom can't even eat for a few days before laying, because it's so huge! If I had to lay an egg the size of my entire body, I wouldn't want anything to do with it afterwards, either. She walks away, and the dad incubates the egg.
I can see her cussin out the baby daddy while she's trying to squeeze out that boulder. And being totally done with both after
"I'm done with both of you!"
Is… is she okay afterwards ?
What is ratite
Kiwis are only one of of two or three ratities that the males incubate exclusively. The others are ostriches ( I think) and emus. Long live the dinos! 😂
My daughter believed they laid Kiwi fruit until she was 8 years old.
I can see why, but that fruit is from an area around China funnily enough.
@@ethanlackey8048it's not funny
@@23Butanedione uh, if you say so? I think it’s amusing
That's so adorable. 🥺
@@23Butanedione Okay Kyle.
I'm crying for all the female kiwi birds.
SAME😢
Got them birthing hips.
@@YukonJack Bruh 😂
@@mastersitorou8289 hollllaaaarrrrrrr
I saw what you did here 😂😂
Oh wow, i never thought kiwis were that big. I thought they were like tiny little things about the size of a duckling lol
Same!
They get to be twice that size and the bigger males will kick seven hells out of most cats.
Extremely strong legs and big claws.
Some are bigger than others. More than one kind of kiwi
Or perhaps, the size of a kiwi.
@@kiwi8. my favorite type of kiwi is the one with green guts and brown slightly fuzzy skin. their eggs are actually super tiny, they just have a lof of them. they hurt really bad if you eat them before they are fully grown, though.
The mating call makes more sense after you see the size of the egg.
Pfff ha! 🤣
😮😂
That egg made my insides hurt I already knew this but forgot. They make me laugh I hope they recover
Look up "Tsetse Fly giving birth"
A Blood-sucking fly, that gives birth to one massive Pre-fed maggot, (instead of laying a cluster of eggs)
Probably the biggest baby in relation of the mother's body size in the animal kingdom.
Protect this bird at all cost
God knows we're trying 😢
We are trying so goddamn hard. We've got a bunch of fully walled nature reserves and small island reserves and are slowly building back the environment
U mean, birb?
We can start by neutering pet cats.
@@SetuwoKecik this. SOOOO much this. Ferals are a monstrous problem.
The closest thing to a dodo (well by looks anyway)
Definitely looks. Dodo was a giant pigeon
They’re bringing dodos back from extinction. Along with wooly mammoths.
@@black_hand78 really?
@@anonimai Yes, but not literally the same species, extinction is forever.
They do look more like a turkey, but their feather are definitely more Kiwi like
Fun fact about kiwis is they’re very adorable
I always forget how big they are! Plus they just look so soft and fluffy
Right? They look just cuddely enough to perhaps one day dethrone the grizzly as the #1 plushie
@@retematic2351 I 👏 want 👏 a 👏 domesticated 👏 kiwi👏 lol
@GobbleTheRook let's start a company to ethically hatch kiwis and let people adopt them!
@@GobbleTheRook somewhat certain they shit like chicken, i don't fancy cleaning feces
Now i wanna become a zoologist and spend my life studying and protecting kiwis
Study and protect your own country's endangered natives.
@@TheShadowMan. they went almost all extinct thanks to mussolini, there's Nothing left ti protect
Awww, that's sweet! 😊
Kiwi seems a distant relatives of dinosaurs among other flightless birds. It's like they preserve their existence for eons.
All birds are categorized as dinosaurs
Wow.. never too old to learn something new
Exactly
Just a question, are kiwis in New Zealand really shoot laser beams?
If that’s true then the feral cats that prey on them are just built different
WHAT 😳 ⁉️
Another ridiculous conspiracy theory 🙄 😒 😑
@@dlmalley8639 It's a joke about one of their proposed flags but okay.
As a kiwi, I can confirm all the kiwis shoot lasers. Help
As a laser beam, I can confirm kiwis do this all the time.
Hence why us from NZ call ourselves Kiwis 😂 we love our national bird, they are wonderful ❤
Fun little detail, the have the shortest beak officially of any bird.
The beak is measured from the tip of nostrils, and the Kiwis is right on the tip
A lot of them are blind. Since they are nocturnal and have horrible eyesight anyways this does not impair their quality of life.
No they're not? Even things like Moles and bats can usually see just not very well.
Being blind would in fact impair their chances of living quite a bit when it comes to mating, nest building and foraging
@@johndiddilyjoe6258 bats actually have great eyesight
@@vbgvbg1133 no actually they have great night vision, the actual quality of the eyesight varies wildly between species but is almost always pre bad.
@@johndiddilyjoe6258 thats pretty cool
@@johndiddilyjoe6258 chiropterologist here 👋🏻. Bats are not blind, they are not rodents, and it’s very unlikely for you to catch a disease from a bat. Just wanted to through that out there because I hate seeing people say “bats are blind rodents that’ll give you diseases.”
That noise in the middle of the night will sit you bolt upright and you are freaked out! My first night in NZ was pretty sleepless! lol
Try staying at my cabin and hearing chewing and stomping noises outside all night, put that on top of hearing mice fight inside the walls. One time I went outside to put some stuff away and a fing mountain lion growled at me it used to hang out on my property because deer traveled through there every night to get to the river then head up into the mountains before morning.
I live on a farm, I know those nightly noises well. I definately relate to the big cat outside we have them, and we seem to have lots of coons, possums, And a healthy herd of mice living with us... ah country life!
They’re so cute!
They sound like cuter seagulls 💀
The lady way really lucky that the kiwi didn't poke out her eyes. It was flailing around randomly and her eyes in perfect eye poking distance.
They are never going to do that.
In the early 60's my uncle found a young one that was caught by a farm cat. They protected it and it imprinted on the family dog.
It was gentle as can be with my cousins who were little kids.
It would come back to a burrow under the farm shed in the night sometimes.
Then for a few years it would call from close by in the bush in the night and wake them up.
@@bobkoroua I'm not worried about intent, but an accident
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter oh I see.
She is holding it in the approved manner, that's the only way to safely hold a kiwi that's not a tiny chick.
I've never known an eye to be poked with a break.
Plenty of people have been raked by claws and that's why you hold their ankles in one hand and cradle the neck in your elbow and cup their back in the other palm.
100% the only approved way to hold them.
It’s the fire Pokémon from the 2nd Gen.
Cyndaquil
@@bambie7376 Yes that one lmao.
a kiwi mate was telling me about another bird they have thats a real menace. they dismantle your car if theres something inside that they want. i think he said they have a thing for butter and are extremely smart.
Your thinking of keas.
@@Sara3346 are they the flightless parrots or different again?
@@danielponiatowski7368They fly they are a big green parrot. Very smart and funny but will pull anything apart
@@danielponiatowski7368 Kea parrots can fly. You're thinking of the Kakapo which is flightless and largest parrot in the world.
Yeah that’s a kea, which have been known to strip the flesh of domestic sheep to drink their blood. This is due to a behavior they had when the 12-foot moa existed, able to ignore the bloodletting, unlike livestock
🤣They are just so damn adorable.
New Zealand is fascinating. The amount of large birds that once called New Zealand home, is absolutely astounding. Up until relatively recently, moas, and massive eagles roamed New Zealand. Now those birds (to name a few) are extinct. The closest living relative to the moa is actually the kiwi!
I love the kiwi bird call, wasn't expecting something this delicate.
The Kiwi had a similar evolution to the Dodo bird. Living in an environment with no predators and an area rich with food made them remove the need for flight and grow to a large size
New Zealand has some amazing birds and amazing flightless birds in particular the Kākāpō is so cute, a flightless parrot which lives 40-60 years
OUCH! Thank u. I actually knew this but the visual is... well some things u cant unsee right?
Yikes!😬
just found u and i love, love, LOVE your channel.
😁👍👍
Thank you so much!
When I was in the U.S. Army, I used Kiwi quite a bit on my boots.
Kiwi take "I'll guard you with my life" to a whole neww level!
Again, even the music you incorporate into these videos just makes it even more relaxing and a joy to watch. Its just good stuff. Its only a matter of time before some major broadcaster drafts you. Thanks for the entertainment and keep it up!
Wow super unique
Yess
"You're a big flightless bird"
-Frank Reynolds
Eating a kiwi everywhere else:🙂
Eating a kiwi in New Zealand:🤨
I love their trill!!
Kiwi egg inside the Kiwi somehow remind me of those tiny little one shot guns that you flick out of your sleeve. ONE SHOT EGG! PLOOFS! Ya got laid, egg.
When she was cradling it, I was terrified it was gonna poke her eye out.
Kiwi have natural chopsticks installed on their mouths.
To make certain they don't become extinct they should move a pair to another island with zero predators and establish another colony. Hopefully they will protect them somehow.
Idk why it wasn’t said but they usually die giving birth
@@Duskofoolacile420 who looks after the egg then?
@@slamyourheadin9449 a dude
Yes you can totally save a population with a pair of kiwi birds. Disregarding inbreeding and diseases, this is literally what zoos and animal preservation sites already so.
@@lankeowker5878 putting animals in captivity to save them is not the answer. Especially for elephants. Did you know elephants die of sorrow in captivity?Elephant exibits are frequently re stocked to replace those that died. They wont even raise young successfully. Endangered animals must be moved out of the danger zones their lands have become and introduced to new habitat. The captive breeding doesn't work because they are placed right back into the danger zones and have lost the skills to survive because of captivity. There is always more suitable habitat if only they would abolish the theory that moving things is bad. A good cheap paperback book to read is The New Wild by Fred Pearce
These need to be protected, no animal should be allowed to go extinct, especially with everything we have today , thankfully
Kiwis got that deep
I heard it was like if a human gave birth to a six-year-old.
The kiwis closest relatives are the extinct Vorombe titan a genetic study confirmed it.
Comment made: 1:09 PM Monday, March 13 2023
If they're extinct then they are not the closest LIVING relative...
@@kaylamartin3053 Yeah I meant to say extinct relative not living relative. That was a typo lol. Will be quick to edit it, thanks for the correction.
Reply made: 8:12 PM Monday, March 13 2023
@R I Timestamp, date what's the difference?
You can always read my bio and I happen to live in Texas.
Reply made: 8:14 PM Monday, March 13 2023
@@kaijuar2003 he's tryna make fun of you for the auto timestamp at the end of your comments.
@@kyumu Meh, he needs to do better than that lol (if he's making fun of me). To be honest, I've gotten so used to people insulting and making fun of me that I just laugh and call them a waste of time.
I've gotten so used to it that I just use the negativity to get stronger positively and mentally. Words are just words in the end, even if they have meaning and definitions, I can't let them get to me.
Reply made: 12:01 PM Friday, March 24 2023
We need to start spreading animals like this all over the world. Turnabout is fair play.
Turnabout?
so like invasive species
It'd have to be in captivity. I don't think these things stand a chance anywhere that has a significant mammalian predator population.
Did you not hear him they were nearly wiped out by cats? Spreading them everywhere would just be dooming their species to extinction. 🥺
So places maybe can hold them probably a island with many food and no predator.
So the food is from new Zealand
And if a species of flying bird came to the island
i hope they evolve to create an ecosystem
At 41 weeks pregnant this just hits different...
dude: no defense against predators
kiwi: literally has a stiletto for a beak
3 Fun Kiwi Facts: 1.Kiwis have their nostrils on the end of their beaks unlike all other birds, so they can sniff out their food in the ground.
2.They have the biggest egg to body ratio of any bird.
3.The males sit on the egg.
The kiwi call sounds a lot better than I expected.
Lol they're like walking socks.
The call of a kiwi bird sounds just like a bald eagle's call.
😂 Thinking about egg size, I was shocked at what a killdeer puts down in a nest. I saw 4 eggs that were a quarter of the size of mama each.
Damn, Kiwi birds be giving their kids enough room to play ball in the shell
They sound like my fridge when I leave the door open for too long
I never knew they were that big, I thought they the size of ... Well, *"Kiwi"* 🥝
I think they are the cutest things ever
when I was a kid I used to think kiwi fruit came from kiwi birds
Kiwis are basically specced out to be rats in a place with no rats
Their sound is surprisingly bird sounding, I was expecting a lot wierder of a holler
Tbh the kiwi call sounds slighrly like a bald eagle call
Ngl, their calls sound like a damn pokemon call.
imagine just being lost in a forest and you see this lil buddy
Capybara but if it was a bird
Kiwis are really cool looking birbs. Kinda like Dodos. But not extinct.
If Kiwis were legal to own I could see people having a few of these
They sound like bald eagles. That was not the sound I expected from a Kiwi
That’s just a defective seagull The sound it makes is hilarious
I’m American but spent much of my childhood in NZ, Kiwi is one of my favorite animals. Ty for covering
At first I thought the description said "Kiwi birds slay"😂💅
Kiwi birds are like the dodo’s, they can’t survive on a island with predators.
Am I the only one that thought Kiwi birds were actually the size of a Kiwi
Kiwi was around when Haast eagle was there...
Back in the 80's I use to listen to them calling out to each other at night all the time, but after a visit in 2015 back home it was dead silent during the nights .
Bro I thought Kiwi's were the size of a tennis ball when they're full grown
😂 bloody things are everywhere we're I come from, always taking my damm shoes 🤣🤣🤣
Thier call sounds like if someone tried to break on a rusty bike
Bro kiwis are one of my favorite flightless birds!!
Adding this to the list of "Pokemon in real life."
Medication made me thought it was a narwhal 💀
Maybe some dinosaurs could really scream too like kiwis. Fascinating.
He looks so silly
I heard that call and now I know it’s a real Pokémon.
As a kiwi human, I know one fun fact about the kiwi bird is that they have a tinest beak. Beaks are measured from the nostrils to the tip of the beak. Kiwi birds nostrils are at the tip of their beak.
Cats, the universal killer of every local fauna.
Turns out kiwis are WAY bigger than I expected 😮
How the hell does a Kiwi sound like a bald eagle more than a bald eagle does
That kiwi call made me drop my phone lol
Ahh so that's how they made gen 1 pokemon cries
that call really said "a wild kiwi appeared"
The subtitles: 'These birds are rat heights'
And no, not automatic subtitles. This video's OWN subtitles 😂
My god. Without RUclips I would have never known about Kiwi birbs. They are giant Woodcocks.
I’m convinced that flightless birds that lay giant eggs…are in fact dinosaurs or have some Dino dna.
That's a Pokemon right there 😂 I love them so much
I used to think their eggs are where Kiwi fruit comes from…kinda still do😭🤣Idk it just sounds more interesting that way
"Let me do it for you." Bird version
It’s like Dr Suess drew them
Wtf it's huge! I thought they were tiny little things. That's low-key terrifying.
that's straight up a gen 1 pokemon cry
I've loved Kiwi's ever since I played Ivy The Kiwi. They're so friggen weird it's adorable. Long neck pear burbs.