kiwis!

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

Also:

They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.
- They would make a great replacement for chickens
- That must feel like such a relief when it’s out…
- Dear lord, I feel so bad
- wait so where are their organs then

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.

I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
- Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
- 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.

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.

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.
- 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

Their call is like the lament of a million souls...

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.

full grown Kiwi

I can hear this picture.
- And it can hear you.
- The cacophony of metal clanging, nades blowing and panicked dashing between levels.
  Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.

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

Wait, isn't that kiwi holding a very small bird, equating then to the size of a pumpkin?
- Maybe it's actually kiwi holding a kiwi feeding on kiwi.

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

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

And they sound like death.

Man I love SponsorBlock. Saved me 12 seconds, nearly half the video.
Edit: Direct link to the scream for those without.
- There's no sponsor in that video.
  ... oh god, Youtube's fucking up the video itself to fuck with adblockers.
Walks like chocobo, yell like tiamat
I love that clip so much. It will never not be funny af to me.
Interesting how it enters the stage as a creature from hell and then it becomes softer and they walk off all cute.
- It screamed out all the angy.

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.

There are différent types. Some are small, some are bigger. But the smallest are around the size of a rockmelon.
- TIL cantaloupe is called rockmelon in your part of the world.