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art-and-fury:

Vik Muniz

(Source: jadoresimone)

rhamphotheca:

Mankura, the White Kiwi, Learns About the Birds and the Bees

by 3 News staff

A rare white kiwi in the Wairarapa has been paired with a young brown kiwi and it is hoped the two will one day mate.

Fourteen-month-old Manukura, and her male friend MB27 – named after the order of his hatching – have moved into the same indoor enclosure and have been “getting on okay”, according to Department of Conservation captive breeding ranger Philip Wisker.

Manukura, believed to be the first all-white chick hatched in captivity, was hatched last May in the Pukaha Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre.

”She goes over to him and gives him a prod with her beak and when he jumps and gets a fright, then she runs off,” Mr Wisker told the Dominion Post…

(read more:  3 News - NZ)

hesstoons:

Needed to get this out :)