#The Kiwi Animates

[camping-with-monsters]

🎀DROP DEAD GORGEOUS🎀

Extremely rare sighting of a very rare behavior in the wild Kiwi (animating)

[herpsandbirds]

Okarito Kiwi (Apteryx rowi), chick, Apterygidae, order Apterygiformes, found in the Ōkārito forest on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island

VULNERABLE.

photographs by West Coast Wildlife Centre

[jenny-jinya]

WOAH!

tw: death/souls

WEBCOMIC - INSTAGRAM

[important-animal-images]

[plush-birds]

Kiwi 🥝 Build-A-Bear Workshop

[ferntern]

Soggy creature

[kiiwiighost]

I join the ecto-implosion this year! <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠> It's my first time doing this kind of event and it was really fun!

I had the pleasure to work with @five-rivers, who wrote an amazing fic to go with my piece, go check it out !!

[goobersplat]

Animal Food Snacks

Kiwi Turtle, Teddy Bear Toast, Crab Croissant, Banana Snail

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Hey uh I just found this out and I'm FURIOUS but miami zoo has a kiwi bird. Which is fine if they were doing what we do here and keeping it in a darkened enclosure with clear notices to be quiet and not bang on the glass. But instead this shy, solitary nocturnal bird is being kept in broad daylight and people are being allowed to pet it. NZ twitter is out for blood right now. https://twitter.com/zoomiami/status/1637864741954637824

…fucking yikes.

The kiwi I’ve seen in other AZA zoos have been kept according to the practices you describe: dark exhibit on a flipped light cycle, in a signed quiet area. What it looks like Zoo Miami is doing is… not good.

Here’s the link to their tweet with a video about the encounter (so it’ll embed):

The video shows a kiwi out of its exhibit: on a table in what looks like a back room with bright overhead fluorescent lighting. The kiwi has no room to move around and no place to hide as people pet it and reach around it to take selfies.

What do you pay to bother the kiwi four days a week - a species which in NZ is apparently illegal to touch without permission from the Department of Conservation? $25.

Obviously it just started and I don’t know anything more about it than what’s online, but even so, this is such a bad look for an AZA zoo, holy shit. I know a bunch of new ambassador animal rules just got promulgated… I wonder if this meets them. I’ll have to go do some reading. Also, USDA is now promulgating new bird rules (it didn’t regulate birds until just recently, only mammals) so this will also have to pass their muster soon.

The guy who runs Miami’s PR, and manages the animal media like the birth of their first kiwi chick in 2019, is known for big media stunts. I’m not surprised by this but I don’t think it’s going to go over well. There’s a lot of pressure on zoos to offer new encounters and programs to help make up for inflation and pandemic losses but this not how to do it.

I’d honestly suggest New Zealanders who are upset about this contact Zoo Miami formally (more than just on twitter) using the contact form on their website, and maybe even the AZA to express concerns about this program animal’s welfare - as well as the lack of cultural awareness at one of their accredited facilities.

Edited to add: a statement from Zoo Miami is supposed to be forthcoming tomorrow. I’ll update once we have it.

[camping-with-monsters]

Oh these two are getting along so well it seems !

Just a little animatic I made for fun… I really needed to put down the 3DS and actually create something haha !

[bastrod]

Aotearoas flightless. Part of a larger set of animal drawings im doing for a little project of mine.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A Kiwi in New Zealand

(Image credit: Miropa via Getty Images)

[almaadst]

You have no idea how hard I fell for Franky thxbdjk.. (*/ω＼*)♡ Oda just has this talent for making characters which at first glance I am like "I am not gonna like him" and then I am in love lmao It happened with Luffy and Usopp and then blue Johnny Bravo 🫠 Also, I love his two squares ✨🙌 Other: Commission info Art Raffle OC's Sanji and Yuna

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION

[treasuregamble]

plush toy birds

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

[herpsandbirds]

Stewart Island Southern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis lawryi), family Apterygidae, order Apterygiformes, is from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand

ENDANGERED. (Only 20,000 individuals remain in the wild)

AKA Stewart Island Tokoeka

Flightless bird.

Unlike other kiwis, they are actually more diurnal (other kiwis are mainly nocturnal).

This kiwi subspecies often feeds on the beach, which is a rare activity for most other kiwis.

photograph by Tamzin S Henderson

[kiiwiighost]

I spend waay too much time on this, but it's finally done! woohoo

Based on that scene I really liked in the comic "the darkest night" when Donald goes shopping for christmas gift

Uno got his little electronic duck to keep him company :)