TIL, unlike most birds, kiwis have horrible eyesight and are frequently prone to ophthalmological issues. As a result, they naturally rely so heavily on other senses that some have been found to have survived perfectly well albeit completely blind in the wild for years.

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0424-0

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