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Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine head to the ends of the earth in search of animals on the edge of extinction.
In New Zealand the travellers make their way through one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world. They are on a journey to find the last remaining kakapo, a fat, flightless parrot which, when threatened with attack, adopts a strategy of standing very still indeed.
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It's a larger bird than I had thought...but still so vulnerable. So much in those eyes...How can you not want to protect it?
Awe leave little kiwi alone he's was asleep..
At least someone is not shagged by a bird this time.
Those saying the bird is named after the fruit, do some research, The Kiwi was named first, the fruit,is chinese gooseberry, was re named Kiwi Fruit after they were started to be grown here
Fun fact, it was renamed to Kiwi Fruit when Zespri started exporting it to America, because the Chinese are communist and they thought that would hurt sales over there.
Gosh it bothers me when someone dispects my 2legged bird
Actually, the "fruits" are really the "eggs" from the kiwi bird. In time a beak will pop out as well as legs and there you got a full grown tasty kiwi
@@solmoman Hahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa good one
Thanks for the fact. I will search for it now.
rofl i love how the dog just sits there like an ostrich with it's head in the sand. PLEASE DON'T SHOW ME THE KIWI!
Stephen Fry is an angel with a wonderful sense of humor. I think it's brilliant how he uses his star power/celebrity reknown/famous name to help with worthy causes like conservation - and bipolar mental illness. - I love him!
Kiwi's are so unique and special. To lose our national bird (who is now closer to a mammal than bird, evolutionarily speaking) would be a great upset. Fortunately for the kiwi, it's cute, therefore conservation funding is reasonably easy to obtain. We have many other native treasures that aren't so cute, that are threatened or endangered that need our help such as native gecko's, skink's and invertebrates such as weta.
I've got a friend who lived in Ohope and there are kiwis in the bush behind the houses on Pohutukawa Ave. Sometimes they are so loud at night that they wake people up.
Idiot..why r u giving out this information ?? There are poachers or just sadists who want eather sell it or kill it for fun. . Some ppl like u got no brains
Percy is so fabulous. Look at that stance!
OMIGOSH! I almost screamed its so cute!!!! Ahh! I don't know what to do with myself! I've never seen anything so cute!!!!
Some say that the dog is still pointing into the other hole.
they are adorable !
a nice video to see, thanks!
I love them 😢
@Palomablanca1978 -- You might not appreciate the noise they make (sort of a rattling sound a bit like a frog)...especially since they usually come out at night! They do look sweet, though...
Sweet little angel simply lays there.
I think bird will be king of the world in the future
@wkkimmy After doing a little checking, it seems the bird had the name first. The fruit was not known as a Kiwi until the 1950s apparently.
EVOLUTION!
Poor little sweetie! He looks like an otter or something, and so sad!
i think this programme is quite commendable. one of the reasons most people don't care about this sort of thing is that they aren't aware of it...... by letting people know about this stuff we are broadly helping a cause.
Kiwis are only in NZ, and the reason that they have one is that they pulled it out of it's nest (it was having a sleep).
And the description is off.
Haha the dog
they are so much bigger than i thought
i love kiwi's
Every time they say kiwi i instantly think that they are referring to New Zealanders
@Kierstie01 uh...
ripping? its not like its been physically attached to the hole. they just removed it to look at it. didnt harm it at all.
of course the kiwi didnt understand what was going on so it might have been upset. but still.
i seen ya james...nice work percy,
After watching all of these snippets and all of the BBC documentaries, I have come to the conclusion that these Brits have balls of steel
It looks so sad at the end:(
Are there any kiwis that have evolved a defense mechanism to stoats, weasels, and dogs such as climbing, burrowing, etc. or is the selection pressure too much?
I...really didn't know Kiwi's were actually that big.
@wkkimmy Just a bit of useless information in case you are even slightly interested. Feel free to forget. Kiwi fruit is Yang-Tao, or the Chinese Gooseberry. It was brought to NZ in the late 1800s - early 1900s. It flourished and the NZ farmers decided to rename it in the 1950s so that the fruit grown in NZ wouldn't be confused with that grown in China (there was alot of anti-China sentiment at the time as China was considered an ally with the then USSR during the Cold War).
@wkkimmy To be honest, it was mostly Wikipedia where I got the info, so not exactly 100% reliable. However, it did say that the bird was named based on the Maori word, and that the fruit only got the name later, when the old name, the Chinese Gooseberry, fell out of favor.
How I would love it if the kiwi was thinking 'what the hell is this? Hey let go...oh my god! It's Stephen Fry'
@UHtiger Ahh no wonder then. Thanks for the information.
@iSeiranai -- Neither did I. I always had the impression that they might be about the size of a largish quail or something (I've only ever seen them filmed once before), but by the look of things, it's quite a bit bigger (as well as quite a bit heavier) than that. I wish they hadn't dragged it out by its feet, though...and I don't blame it one bit for struggling! How would one of THEM have liked it if something much bigger had dragged him out of his house by his feet??
1:43 Haha Guy in right shits himself haha
Holy shet that bird is huge i tho they are small
They are being protected though. That's why there are banding projects, mainland islands, and reintroduction schemes. It's not quite enough, but our government insists on cutting DOC's funding and staff, so for what they've got to work with they're not doing too badly. It's more concerning that of our the five commercially fished whitebait species, four are critically endangered and have no legal protection. Kiwi have it pretty good in comparison.
@wendighoul really? wow,..im not sure when the kiwi was discovered and named but i guess it was earier then the fruit :/
Kakapo
That is a bird
SAVE THEM FOR THE FUTURE
@verticalsmurf wow really? its not useless, its pretty awsome..well it is useless but still cool
This kiwi is probably used to this and its for conservation so I don't feel sorry for it
it looks delicious
as much i love animals, i think they made some mistake on naming the "kiwi". LOL its named after a fruit.
STOP STOP STOP
@kellmax1
idk what you're talking about with geckos and skinks... they're awesome.
deathly dislike with weta though. sorry mate
dont let them go exctinct.. :( for the love of god, what is wrong with human beings, protect them !!!
i'd eat it.