Ah, yes, CK, I'd have recognized you anywhere:
"Into my field of view," writes Derek Grzelewski, "runs the oddest-looking creature, a shaggy, pear-shaped fur ball, that sniffs and snorts like an agitated hound."

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/mar00/kiwi.html

[doing some snorting, myself, e]