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The following questions from schools are answered by Marie, Jenny and Ruud:

Where in the forest are you going to look for the Kiwi egg? What do you have to do to find it?
How would the egg not break? Aren't the roads bumpy?
How long is the drive from the forest to Rainbow Springs?
What if the egg hatches and the kiwi is sick on the way?
When did you start being a life saver for Kiwis?
Do you agree with the government dropping 1080 on the forests?

The following questions from schools are answered by Emma and Ruud:

How do you know which kind of kiwi it is?
How warm does the incubator need to be?
How do you know that the eggs that you collect are 25 days old?
What sorts of things can you see when you candle the eggs?
What happens if the babies hatch and nobody is there?
Do kiwis have any special features that help them carry such large eggs?
If kiwi didn’t have predators, why are they brown as they wouldn’t need camouflage?
Do baby kiwi try to fly when they first hatch?
Why do kiwi like the dark? They have tiny eyes, so wouldn’t they need bigger eyes?
What should we do if we find a kiwi in our back yard?

The following questions from schools are answered by Jenny and Ruud:

How long does it take for a kiwi to lay it’s egg?
Why do kiwi get attacked?
Why is it right to keep kiwis in captivity if they can’t learn how to survive in the wild?
What exactly happens when it is time to release the kiwis into the wild?
Why do kiwi have nostrils at the end of their beaks?
Do kiwi molt?
What different colours of kiwi are there?
Do kiwi hibernate?
How many kiwi are there in countries other than New Zealand?
If a white kiwi mated with a brown kiwi, what colour would the chick be?