Assertion: kiwi | /r/RelatedTo | other new zealand ratites
Facets:
value: closely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Although it was long presumed that the kiwi was closely related to the other New Zealand ratites, the moa, recent DNA studies have identified its closest relative as the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar, and among extant ratites, the kiwi is more closely related to the emu and the cassowaries than to the moa.
text: It was long presumed that the kiwi was closely related to the other New Zealand ratites, the moa.