Kiwi 'more African than Australian' says study

10 years ago

How I dream of one day taking hikes through the Southern Alps and New Zealand wilderness.

As a non-New Zealander, to me it is land of LOTR!

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hardraysnight

10 years ago

i wonder if that is yet another effect of having an idiotic, id laugh if it wasnt so sad, immigration policy

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alistair 10 years ago

Originally Posted by hardraysnight

i wonder if that is yet another effect of having an idiotic, id laugh if it wasnt so sad, immigration policy

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HeySal 10 years ago

Originally Posted by hardraysnight

i wonder if that is yet another effect of having an idiotic, id laugh if it wasnt so sad, immigration policy

Hahahahahaha.

You are soooooo twisted.

I think they're adorable, Dennis. The birds that is......
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seasoned

10 years ago

Does any reasonable person REALLY care where strange species came from? Take marsupials, for example. For one thing, I don't know if bones can even reveal such traits. I DOUBT it. But even if they DID, if they currently only exist, and only exist alive in australia, can't we just call them AUSTRALIAN? And that is NOT a racial thing. I wouldn't care and even if I did, all know that the first residents of australia were effectively black, the aborigines.

Do they know what a stegasaurus looks like? When I was a kid, they said it looked ONE way. Last I heard, they said they were WRONG, and it was one of two OTHER ways.

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Daniel Evans 10 years ago

To me, it's more Amiga.
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ThomM

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Does any reasonable person REALLY care where strange species came from? Take marsupials, for example. For one thing, I don't know if bones can even reveal such traits. I DOUBT it. But even if they DID, if they currently only exist, and only exist alive in australia, can't we just call them AUSTRALIAN? And that is NOT a racial thing. I wouldn't care and even if I did, all know that the first residents of australia were effectively black, the aborigines.

Do they know what a stegasaurus looks like? When I was a kid, they said it looked ONE way. Last I heard, they said they were WRONG, and it was one of two OTHER ways.

Steve

It's interesting figuring out how they got there and maybe why. It's also interesting to learn what species are related.
For example in the plant kingdom Brassica oleracea is the botanical name for cabbage, cauliflower, Broccoli, and brussel sprouts and they are all in the mustard family.

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seasoned

10 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

It's interesting figuring out how they got there and maybe why. It's also interesting to learn what species are related.
For example in the plant kingdom Brassica oleracea is the botanical name for cabbage, cauliflower, Broccoli, and brussel sprouts and they are all in the mustard family.

Isn't mustard also related to potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants?

But HEY! People may have thought pandas were related to bears and it turns out they are related to racoons and they don't even really know if pandas Red panda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

are related to the giant pandas! Giant panda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, now they say the panda is related to the racoon, and the giant panda is related to the bear.

I wonder how closely the panda is related to the bear. It looks and acts a bit like the bear, but bears prefer to be very carnivorous. Giant pandas prefer to be vegetarians.

The two types of pandas have similar feet, similar preferences, love bamboo, have some similar types of markings, and prefer to be vegetarians.

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ThomM

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Isn't mustard also related to potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants?

But HEY! People may have thought pandas were related to bears and it turns out they are related to racoons and they don't even really know if pandas Red panda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

are related to the giant pandas! Giant panda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, now they say the panda is related to the racoon, and the giant panda is related to the bear.

I wonder how closely the panda is related to the bear. It looks and acts a bit like the bear, but bears prefer to be very carnivorous. Giant pandas prefer to be vegetarians.

The two types of pandas have similar feet, similar preferences, love bamboo, have some similar types of markings, and prefer to be vegetarians.

Steve

No mustard is in the Brassicaceae Family and the others are in the Solanaceae or Nightshade Family.

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Kurt

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

I wonder how closely the panda is related to the bear. It looks and acts a bit like the bear, but bears prefer to be very carnivorous. Giant pandas prefer to be vegetarians.

The two types of pandas have similar feet, similar preferences, love bamboo, have some similar types of markings, and prefer to be vegetarians.

Not entirely accurate. Polar bears are exclusively carnivors, for obvious reasons.

However brown, black and Asiatic black bears are omnivores and get most of their calories from vegetation. Brown bears can often be found grazing on grass in meadows and eat berries, etc.

The hump the brown bear has on it's shoulders is pure muscle and is used to turn over rocks in order to find and eat insects, which would be called an "insectivore", if that was all it ate.

There are a few exceptions. The Kodiak brown bears do eat a lot of salmon and are the largest brown bears on Earth.

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Mikaedi

10 years ago

AS a Kiwi I find it absurd and crazy that our National bird is a two legged flightless dumb ugly bird..have you seen one? our NZ Scientists and GVMT go all out in protecting this ridiculous animal...god at least the Aussies have the Kangaroo which though they look on them as a pest which is a bit weird..at least they have a cute factor about them..hehe.

It would be better have the kiwi as our national delicacy though not sure what they'd taste like!!!?

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- Mikaedi 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by hardraysnight
  
  why cant kiwis fly?
  
  too full of shit
  
  Depends on what Kiwi you're talking about?
  
  If you're talking about our national flightless bird..then it'a fact, they can't fly.
  
  If you're talking about the human variety! then the comment could be termed offensive which the second part of your reply is you!!! no more said
  
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Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi

AS a Kiwi I find it absurd and crazy that our National bird is a two legged flightless dumb ugly bird..have you seen one?

Aw . . . I think they're kind of cute in an odd sort of way.
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whateverpedia

10 years ago

Whoever says the kiwi is more African than Australian has never been to Bondi.

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Richard Van

10 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Whoever says the kiwi is more African than Australian has never been to Bondi.

Quite right, it's full of bloody poms.

...and there was me thinking New Zealanders were named after a fruit. Still, better to learn these things late than never.

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hardraysnight

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Quite right, it's full of bloody poms.

...and there was me thinking New Zealanders were named after a fruit. Still, better to learn these things late than never.

i think that is australia

sure you have heard of priscilla, queen of the dessert

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Mikaedi 10 years ago

Originally Posted by hardraysnight

i think that is australia

sure you have heard of priscilla, queen of the dessert

Wrong, we are Kiwis not the Aussies..proof being we beat them at Rugby as the *1 nation in the World..
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- hardraysnight 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mikaedi
  
  Wrong, we are Kiwis not the Aussies..proof being we beat them at Rugby as the *1 nation in the World..
  
  Me wrong? surely that is a contradiction, theres a technical term for that but i will keep it simple
  
  yet to hear of a good real kiwi bloke called mikaedi, exactly the reason i will be giving winston my party vote
  
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Mikaedi

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Quite right, it's full of bloody poms.

...and there was me thinking New Zealanders were named after a fruit. Still, better to learn these things late than never.

Haha Richard, close but not close enough..it's actually the other way round..we have always been proudly Kiwi's, the fruit was changed to Kiwi Fruit in the 60s..it used to be known as Chinese Goose-berries..and they're yummy.

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Richard Van

10 years ago

Originally Posted by hardraysnight

i think that is australia

sure you have heard of priscilla, queen of the dessert

Yes I've seen the film, and Australia, I have family there and lived there for a short while. I was responding to Whateverpedias comment below about Bondi, which is in Australia and full of poms

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Whoever says the kiwi is more African than Australian has never been to Bondi.

Make sense?

Originally Posted by Mikaedi

Haha Richard, close but not close enough..it's actually the other way round..we have always been proudly Kiwi's, the fruit was changed to Kiwi Fruit in the 60s..it used to be known as Chinese Goose-berries..and they're yummy.

Yup, we have them here too. I didn't realise that about the fruits name change though or the original name. My comment was a bit tongue in cheek.

Hardraysnight was responding to me, responding to Whateverpedia about Bondi. Though I don't think he understood what I wrote.

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