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The Kiwi

New Zealand, where this flightless bird lives today, had no mammals for 80 million years. In filling ecological niches that would have been occupied by the mammals the bird evolved mammalian characteristics

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 239 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Kiwi” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 239 No. 1 (), p. 132
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0778-132