KEY POINTS:
- New Zealand gets its own "lucky" kiwi chick - a day after the Year of the Rooster Chinese New Year festivities kicked off in Auckland yesterday.
New Zealand gets its own "lucky" kiwi chick - a day after the Year of the Rooster Chinese New Year festivities kicked off in Auckland yesterday.
This morning, the 88th kiwi chick for the season hatched at Rotorua's Kiwi Encounter.
Eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese because it sounds like the word "prosperity" and 88 is considered doubly lucky.
Coincidentally, the chick's dad's name is Bruce Lee.