Assertion: kiwi | /r/HasProperty | next of kin
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text: If the vicariance theory was correct, and big, flightless birds had split with Gondwana, that would mean the elephant bird should be closest, genetically, to its African neighbor the ostrich—the fact that the kiwi was its next of kin meant that, in all likelihood, they shared a flying ancestor that winged its way to Madagascar and New Zealand long after the islands became islands.