Kiwi: a secret life
Chris Wratt
by Jim Jolly (New Zealand Natural Heritage Foundation) $19.95 "Emerging from the burrow the kiwi stretches to his full height and with bill raised sniffs the air. ..". In Kiwi: a secret life Jim Jolly combines his experience as a wildlife scientist and kiwi researcher with narrative recording the little known events in the life of the kiwi. The book includes a fascinating account of a night in the life of a kiwi and the life cycle of a young kiwi from conception, — incubation and hatching of the egg, through the first weeks of life and growth to adulthood. Jolly’s accounts of finding and tracking kiwi in the wild lead to a discussion of the unique features of the kiwi, reasons for the decline of the species and strategies for assisting kiwi recovery.
The book is the first title in the Nature of New Zealand series published by the Natural Heritage Foundation. Its mixture of science and story will be popular with young people, and make this book an important new reference for schools and libraries, in an area which is currently starved of quality resources.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 1992, Page 46
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191Kiwi: a secret life Forest and Bird, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 1992, Page 46
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