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  • A kākā chick in a next box with metabolic bone disease.
    Rights: Linton Miller, C-C 4.0 Published 5 August 2019 Size: 2.5 MB Referencing Hub media

    This kākā chick has metabolic bone disease. This disease leaves kākā with distorted limbs and bone abnormalities, including a crossed beak, as seen here. Birds with this disease usually have to be euthanised. It can be easily avoided by not feeding kākā ‘human food’.

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