THE BLADE
MAY
16, 2019
The
Toledo Zoo announced Thursday that a female North Island brown kiwi chick
recently hatched at the zoo’s Avian Breeding Center.
The egg
was laid Jan. 9 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, which
is affiliated with the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Staff there
determined the developing embryo inside was a female through sophisticated
blood-draw techniques.
They
drove the egg to the Toledo Zoo several weeks before its expected hatch date to
finish incubating here. The yet-to-be-named chick hatched March 21, appears
healthy, and is currently being raised off-exhibit.
North
Island brown kiwi are one of five existing kiwi species endemic to New Zealand.
Only about half of all kiwi eggs hatch successfully and nearly 90 percent of
chicks die within six months.
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