America’s Zoo Miami offends entire nation of New Zealand with its treatment of Paora the kiwi bird 

An American zoo has issued a groveling apology after offending New Zealand with its ‘indefensible’ treatment of Paora, a brown kiwi hatched in its care.

Zoo Miami charged $40 a head for a ‘kiwi encounter’, which involved the public  patting the bird and scratching its head in a brightly-lit room without a hiding place for four days every week.

TikTok videos taken by visitors to the American zoo show Paora sprinting to a timber box for shelter in his enclosure, then a keeper laughing as he lifts its hinged lid to expose him.

He also knocks the bird over as he handles it. 

The zoo evidently commenced its up-close and personal kiwi experience using Paora, which was born in the US in 2019, without cross-checking whether its plans conformed to the animal’s natural behaviour.

Zoo Miami has issued a groveling apology after offending New Zealand with its ‘indefensible’ treatment of Paora (pictured above), a brown kiwi hatched in its care which staff allowed to be patted

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