on a possum. cuddly but now. not ideal for the air force because they don t fly. predators kill on ample about 20 per week. and 95% of baby kiwis don t make it past six months. so if you guys want to head through there are a lot of doors it s not for people. it s for pests. so for the last decade or so anyone who found an egg in the wild would bring it here where it hatched and stay long enough to grow a fighting chance. there we go. wow. that s a big one. hey, croucher what s going on. croucher is ready for release. and as a testament to the trusting nature of human kiwis, they ve asked me to give her a ride. thank you for trusting us with this. this is nerve-racking. i haven t been this nervouses
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again they evolved in the presence of avian predators not mammals. their response when threatened from from above threatened at all is to freeze. if you freeze and you ve got a rat or stoet or cat behind you it s game over. zealandia is one of the last few places these animals can relax. but kiwis are not content with predator free parks. they want to make new zealand a predator-free country. it s a plan so audacious in scope it s been skauld new zealand s apollo project, that is wipe out every rat, every mouse, every possum, every weasel, hundreds of millions of predatory mammals by the year 2050. to pull off they have to spread millions of tons of poison all over this incredibly beautiful
so this is your diesed ox heart. this is the artificial diet. doesn t look too bad. ox heart. new zealanders are known as kiwis. but with fewer 70,000 of their name sake birds in the wild most kiwis have never seen a kiwi. so the best way to get a glimpse is to show up at breakfast time at a place called rainbow springs. waky waky eggs and baky. adorable look at you. hi. good morning. a little vocalization. a little yawn. he is tired. i know the feeling. can i get you a cap pacino. this is how old. seven days old. first solid food. these birds lay the biggest eggs relative to mom s weight.
ecoologyis. he insists the fear of 1080 is unyou had founded. is it reality is it breaks down in water and then it s not harmful. most hope that kiwi innovation will eventually make the 1080 obsolete. with the invention of the good nature trap to kill and reset a dozen times. you can leave it six or 12 months and does all the work. but in the meantime, it s telling that in a world full of doubt, most kiwis support their scientists and trust their government. i love the concept. and even if we don t particularly reach it, the fact that we get after it going to be sawsome for the krer. i hear that sentiment everywhere from the mountains down south to the forests up north where the privilege of releasing a a kiwi forms strange alliances between environmentalists timber company