Apteryx

Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology

(ăp´tərĭks): see kiwi.

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Kiwi - common name for the smallest member of an order of primitive flightless birds related to the ostrich, the emu, and the cassowary. The kiwi, named by the Maoris for its shrill, piping call, is most cl...