No one here seems to have any idea what they are talking about about. 1. You put a ring in the pig nose so it doesn't root and eat the truffles, 2. Dogs have a better sense of smells than pigs by a lot, 3. Big brains don't come from standing upright, whales and dolphins have larger brains, 3. Brain size is important for intelligence, almost always the larger brain the more intelligent, the whole nonsense of body to brain ratio be more important was to make half the human population not feel as bad about having smaller brains. Almost always, more brain == more smart.

No, there isn't such evidence.

My comment was mostly based off DNA left by interbreeding between Neanderthal and Sapiens. Modern humans do carry a small but significant share of DNA inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors [1]. My point was that Genes left by these ancestors were heavily filtered by natural selection for brain-related regions.

That being said, loking it up again now, it seems that more recent publications draw more nuanced conclusions [2]. So maybe my knowledge is out of date, and it's time to pick up the books again :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics [2]: https://www.johnhawks.net/p/many-people-have-a-little-neande...

But they suffer from the same inefficiencies as truffle-hunting pigs: they tend to eat all their produce before making it to market.

Weight-conscious NZ human farmers have the advantage there.

The Dutch largely arrived here post WW2, we were doing a bunch of agriculture before then, rest assured.

yep, we got em here in Nova Scotia, "little dutch farmers", still doing the dutch beard thing, farming with oxen, deap knowledge of traditional farming practice, oh how they can talk, and bend your ear, best pay attention, as if they like you, they will drop a significant observation into an otherwise seemingly pointless ramble, but as they say....you have to catch it get them in Pennsylvania too, though less obviously out of a clasic painting from the 17th century

German here, it's exclusively Kiwi here, never Kiwifrucht (kiwifruit).

I think this is more or less correct. Presumably because the need to distinguish between kiwi fruits and New Zealanders is less important in most other places than in NZ.

UK people also mostly just call it "kiwi" instead of "kiwifruit". Similar lack of kiwi birds but we do have a fair few kiwi people (at least in London.)

American here. I can state authoritatively I've never confused a greenish fruit with an expatriate of a peri-Australian island.

Not super knowledgeable either, but I'm thinking that it's simply because it's fairly easy for animals to change size. Like imagine a size constant in your code and you can just update it and everything magically works. So when you have two populations that get cut off with slighly different environments and selection pressures their sizes are likely to diverge.

I heard a wealthy man is looking to buy Greenland. Maybe it's for the birds?

New Zealand's total land area is about the same as Colorado or Oregon, and the five extant species of Kiwi inhabits a fraction of that.

You need a really big island, like North America.