Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 10, 2021

lucky birds to be independent so, so young

The kiwi chicks know that their parents are deadbeat jerks and realize they can’t depend on them. And when the chicks are grown, they look down on all the birds with “normal” parents because they’re just spoiled.

Kiwi chicks hatch in a highly developed state, but there’s a downside to it. The adults lay the largest egg (relative to body size) of any bird.

Kiwi eggs are huge. No wonder the chicks are so precocious. There is another bird that lays eggs in volcano-heated sand and leaves them. The chicks never know their parents. I forget the name offhand, but they are at the Bronx Zoo.

Not bad for a nugget and if my figure is right with the current gold price that comes out to be about $832,000 (USD) Though I am sure it is worth way more than that being it’s a nugget.

I once dated a kiwi chick. From a small town in New Zealand. Heck of a gal.

Take care, may famed cartographer Marcito Pollitord be with you, and gesundheit.

Kiwi birds live a lot of years. Guess they need to get started early in order to survive.

When the news of that gold nugget hit the air waves, sales of metal detectors went off planet and hotels in the area had the best month since they opened. After that, a strong drop off.

Those footprints are the first evidence of a guy who decided he’d had enough of hearing his mother-in-law knock on him for not bringing in enough bison meat.

Kiwi chicks have to get out there and start making shoe polish.

I wonder if those 120,000 year old footprints are accurately dated. Someone must’ve been on something. That’s Impossible

Those chicks are very tasty with a little sauce.

More interesting than the Kiwi are the Fugawee birds. They never know where they are, so they wander around crying “We’re the Fugawee, we’re the Fugawee!”.

I don’t like to admit it, but I’d enjoy having $5 for every parent who, after reading today’s cartoon, sighed & said, “I almost wish I were a kiwi parent!”

“A man?” Doesn’t he have a name?

That is totally bind-boggling about the gold “nugget”; especially after just watching a show about panning for gold where they got excited finding 1/4 oz. of “flecks” in their pan. At current gold prices, the 26+ pound nugget would be worth more than $832,000! Quite a find!

I’d call that gold nugget The Hitchhiker…

re gold nugget, looks more like a sad rabbit to me!

Which speaks words about the teaching quality of Kiwi parents…