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While it would be more difficult for kiwi to find food, the loss of earthworms alone would not stop them being able to eat. Besides earthworms, kiwi primarily eat fruit, seeds, fungi, insect larvae and other invertebrates. They have been known to eat eels, freshwater crayfish, small lizards and even frogs.

Of more concern would be the long-term ramifications of the loss of earthworms. Earthworms are vital to the health of the soil, and many other organisms rely on earthworms doing their part to aerate and fertilise the soil in order to survive. In the long term, all other organisms of the forest would suffer, and this would include the kiwi.

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