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North Island Brown Kiwi — printable fact sheet
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North Island Brown Kiwi
Apteryx mantelli
The kiwi lays an egg so large that the bird has to stop eating to accommodate it — up to about a fifth of the female's own body weight, proportionally one of the biggest eggs of any bird, and in the final days there is simply no room left inside her for a stomach. The pay-off is…
Did you know?
- Despite being birds, kiwis have bone marrow similar to mammals and whisker-like facial feathers for sensing their environment in the dark.
- Its egg can be a fifth of the female's body weight — so large that in the last days she cannot eat, because there is no room for a stomach. It is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its bill, and it finds worms by smell. Its bones are heavy and marrow-filled, not hollow like a flying bird's. Its feathers are hair-like, and it has no keel on its breastbone at all.
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