Why are these guys still considered birds? At what point in the evolutionary process would this animal cease to be a bird?
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If Alligators and Crocodiles Weren't Alive Today and Were only Fossils we Would Consider Them Dinosaurs and the Distinction Between Archosaurs and True Dinosaurs Would Be Considered Arbitrarily
no we wouldn't
Fun fact - they technically have the shortest beak of all birds.
What? How?
Only the last millimeter of the "beak" actually opens. It's just a long hollow straw.
What do you get out of your pointless lying?
Some bullshit about how beaks are measured from the distance from the nostrils to the tip of the beak. Kiwis have their nostrils right at the end of their beak so that’s where it’s measured
Kiwi is being attacked to the point of being taken offline. I am sad.
Tfw u will never hug a kiwi
it hurts
>At what point in the evolutionary process would this animal cease to be a bird?
Never? You're still:
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organism
What a silly religion.
have a nice day
They're still a bird, they just occupied the niche a mammal like a shrew would cover (nocturnal insectivore) since there aren't mammals in NZ (except bats, marine mammals and invasive ones)
The real question is why evolution hasn't gotten rid of them.
No predators
Well, there were none
Now there are in decline with cats and dogs roaming the islands
>Now there are in decline with cats and dogs roaming the islands
And stoats and ferrets.
>Why are these guys still considered birds?
Because they are birds. What do you think is unbirdlike about them?
There are plenty of other flightless birds, such as emus, cassowaries, ostriches and penguins.
Kiwis are small for a flightless bird but, as the other anon pointed out, they and other small flightless New Zealand birds such as the kakapo, takahe and weka had the luxury of evolving in the absence of mammalian predators.
Kiwis are also still dinosaurs, by the way. They will never not be both birds and dinosaurs...
>And stoats and ferrets.
And rats and possums