How to Raise the Rarest Kiwi
(World News Science)

FRANZ JOSEF, NEW ZEALAND-When I first see the kiwi chick, I briefly wonder if I´m actually looking at a real animal. It´s a grapefruit-sized sphere of fluff with an adorably short version of an adult´s long beak. When it sits still in its dark, red-lit enclosure, it looks indistinguishable from some of the plush toys that fill New Zealand´s gift shops. Unlike the chicks of most birds, the kiwi´s surprisingly mobile and self-sufficient, even though it hatched just six days ago. It´s too early to tell if it´s male or female, but it already has a name: Kami, after a Maori word that means `force of nature.` And it will soon have company. In the room next door, 22 more kiwi eggs are incubating in...