Kiwis are wonderfully strange animals that do not resemble any other type of bird, because a Kiwi's wings blend in perfectly and disappear. I laugh every time I see one walk as its so unusual--it seems that two legs are missing or at the least some part of the bird's anatomy is lacking.
Kiwis lay huge eggs, and only one at a time. The egg takes up more than a fourth of the females body weight, and the entire time it stays in her body (one month) she doesn't eat or move very often. Once laid, the chick takes up to three months to hatch. After all the hard work the parents endured I thought that they would stay with the chick for quite some months, so I was very surprised to find out they abandoned the baby as soon as it hatches. Most chicks die after they leave their nest, and they are threatened with a status of vulnerable. It's not the worst grade they could have, but still very worrisome.
What if aliens came to our world and every year took away one percent of our habitat called Earth--within fifty years we would only have fifty percent of our world left and that is exactly what has happened to the Great Spotted Kiwi.
Why can't we protect our wildlife? Greed is actually the reason for this disaster that is happening today in every part of our land and sea. People want to tear down trees or build houses or whatever the reason is--they are making money off their greed adventure without a care for anything that will outlast themselves.
I'm not sure how many animals will die before we stop, and people may never stop. After killing all the animals on our world they will move to different planets and start there. It's just another example of how humans lower their standards of integrity and how the rest of us stand around and let it happen.
http://www.wwf.org.nz/what_we_do/species_/kiwi/
https://www.kiwisforkiwi.org/about-kiwi/kiwi-species/great-spotted-kiwi/
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