Oh, I've seen that one. Mark Carwardine is his name, and -- I can't speak for him -- but I feel it would be an honour to be violated by a kakapo. Incidentally, I think it's *good* we have enough recent footage of these freaky parrots that we don't need to reuse 10+ years old footage. There are still far too few of them, but they're on the rebound
@@exmachinz Not necessarily. Maybe your educational background is more vast than original commenter *shrugging* Mind you I hope they appreciate the truth you kindly shared. As the indigenous people of New Zealand do not have letter "S" *fistbump* May you both lead a life y'all enjoy bc that's best all over for our own wellbeing *peacesign* Live long and prosper 🖖🏾🖖🏾🚹🚺🚻🤓🤓🤓🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🖖🏾
"if humans can give a name for every member of your species, things are not going well for you." you mean, like.... humans? i mean, you're not wrong...
Despite the constant fretting over the world ending, humanity has been doing consistently better over the long term. The only real issue facing us right now is the sudden increase in misinformation that came with Facebook's explosion of older members in 2014-2016.
@@austinshoupe3003 And the encroaching effects of climate change. And the ever increasing gap between those at the top of the socio-economic pecking order and the bottom. And the ease of disease to spread through our globalized world. I could go on, but... I think y'all get it.
@@ShadowMageAlpha I'm sorry, but I don't think you are applying context. Medical science is at a point we're we likely would not have a repeat of the bubonic plague or spanish flu. Diseases can spread easily but Covid, as bad as it's been, does not touch either of those earlier instances. Vaccines are also preventing all sorts of awful diseases such as polio and the various poxes. Socio economic diversity is definitely on the down trend in developed nations, but among all nations the gap is closing. Also, our current state of socio split doesn't touch that of pre 1940s or the racial split pre 1990s. The climate issue is persisting largely due to our misinformation issue. Too many politicians continuing to be reelected because their supports don't believe we have influenced climate change. Those same people tend to not want to participate in global strategies that will reduce the emissions of developing nations. Overall, the world is getting better about emissions, just not quick enough. Fix the misinformation issue (which honestly means waiting until the boomers die off in significant numbers) and the climate issue becomes manageable. Same with repeats of covid. The disease was well maintained in much of the world. The US just sucked at it because the president declared it a hoax. Other nations that struggled were nations also struggling with similar surges of nationalist, science refuting movements. Things look bad over the 5 year trend. Long term were still trending up.
its thought that's why a lot of birds are extinct in New Zealand, moas for example being curious walking up to the first humans there who wanted to make them dinner.
I donʻt know if this is an interesting fact, but anyways: Kākāpō literally means ‘Night parrot’ (kākā - parrot, pō - night). My favourite bird. Cutey chubbies and heartbreaking
@@swimmingpigeon7034i reckon only if we drag them out on the street to shave there little kitty heads to brand them the traitors to new zealand they are....
We also had the largest eagle - the haast eagle that used to prey on the Moa, it is said they could pick up and fly away with small children. They went extinct when the Moa did.
This video added a whole new anxiety to my life I didn't realize I needed. As a violin teacher with a large number of student instruments on hand to rent out, I'm going to start being extra vigilant for stoats and cats being attracted to my musty smelling cases. I mean - I hadn't noticed the musty smell myself, but maybe it's there and I just got used to it! Aaccck!
as a violinist, I think they're talking about that smell of like, rosin and old wood and such that hits you when you open an older violin case. which is a nice smell, so now I love kakapos more than I already did.
@@mimisezlol I know, but aren't you worried about all the predators he mentioned who are also attracted to the scent? Are our instruments in danger? (I guess if we get them out often, we're safe... 😅)
@@Judymontel if a cat shows up and discovers that the smell only leads to a weird shaped wooden box, they won't associate the smell with food anymore, just betrayal. How dare we open our violin cases and not have food inside. This is a major crime.
5:15. I notice that the original range of the kakapo is almost completely outside that of the Hass eagle, which only went extinct 200 years ago. That was the largest predator on South Island, pretty well limited to the east & north sides.
I wish I could just buy a school's worth of pins and make this a monthly thing in schools. children should get these and have fun watching this channel. every child with their favorite animal pin waiting to hear about the next beast. thank you hank green you're just one of many heroes I hope to live up to the standards you set as a person. be awesome.
Okay, but now you have to look at the Kea. They’re ALSO just as bizarre as Kea. They’re the ONLY alpine parrot and there are a lot of reports, AND PICTURES, of them sitting on the backs of sheep and EATING THEM? They’re also super super smart, and super super mischievous.
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was caught of guard by the English language randomly incorporating Swedish words, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right? Lek in Swedish means unstructured play, as in by children. So the birds are said to be playing with each other.
It also catches me offguard, when German words (except the usual ones) are used in a scientific context. It never stops being funny to me, even tho it's really common in some fields
5:36 That's so damn cute. I know we shouldn't save things based on cuteness alone and should value them for their own sake (and I do), but just this once can we all agree to not mess this one up and save these adorable weird chubby parrots? Please and Thank you.
Fun fact! Parrots are often strongly scented, at least in a way we can smell. That's an observation I've made anyway. My jardine's parrot just passed away in a freak accident last weekend, but she smelled amazing. It's like a musty-sweet smell bird parents all love. My blue and gold macaw, Merlin, smells the best of all my birds. I love giving him a big obnoxious sniff and then dramatically going "AHH, I love the smell of boy in the morning" while he stands there like ??? But the best smelling parrot I've ever encountered in my time working in rescue are blue headed pionus. Dude it's literally like they're wearing a mild, sweet but still faintly musty perfume. I'm don't do perfumes but I'd wear it. She smells incredible and she can be smelled a few feet, not just point blank like almost every other parrot.
What about the bit where they roost in trees but can't fly so they fall out every morning like feathery rocks? If you're wondering how they get into the trees, they can climb.
I was in a back country hut in the middle of the South Island and one cruised out of the bush in broad daylight, mooched around the hut for a while and sauntered off back into the tussock. Quite the lucky sighting
I literally went to the info tab because I kept seeing all of your pins and wanted to see if they were in your shop, and then, SURPRISE MYSTERY PIN GRAB BAGS, my only weakness
Ohhh, isn't masting the same thing bamboo does when it makes a buttload of bamboo rice? It's what lead to chickens being marvelous at egg laying, and thought to be a chief reason why they were domesticated.
I’ve long suspected that Kevin’s body shape is indeed based on ratites - a group of birds which does include moa, among others (ex. kiwi, emu, ostrich). Ratites are found throughout the southern hemisphere, including South America, so it would make sense for Kevin to be one of these. However, there are no ratites which have feathers as colourful as Kevin!
As a NZer, I say "Well done!" regarding this presentation. I have seen so many items on NZ that are just plain wrong or confused or get the wrong tone or angle. This is all facts, a light touch, no mocking, just excellent. Thanks!
Please tell me you will do some more New Zealand birds. There are kea, the only alpine parrot, the kiwi - birds with longest nose, and tuatara (which I think might be a form of allopatric speciation from the Australian Water Dragon - unconfirmed)
If I'm not mistaken, the kakapo is the bird used as Twitch's RareParrot and PartyParrot emotes. I absolutely adore both, especially PartyParrot. Keep these little meme birbs alive!
I was playing World of Warcraft Dragonflight the other day and i was standing in some random place with some old buildings and a railing on top of a mountain, and i saw a little green bird on the railing. I got closer to it and saw it was called Kakapo. I thought that was really cool and cute. I wanted to tame it as my pet, but I couldn't. So i killed it.
How many people are there who have smelled both a kākāpō and a musty violin case? Maybe two or three? And we're taking their word for it that those two things smell alike? I demand a larger body of witnesses. I demand peer-reviewed documentation. I demand independent corroboration.
It's a Douglas Adams comparison. =) I work for the kākāpō recovery programme, maybe I should organise a couple of violinists to come in and we'll see what the team thinks haha
I hope that I can reach a point in my career in Pacific island forest ecology that I can leverage my influence enough to get to one of the two strictly controlled islands where kakapō are and see/smell one. THEY'RE SO WEIRD. I LOVE THEM. And also I'm curious to know if their smell is the same as the Hawaiian honeycreeper smell... another group of birds that evolved without mammal predators and have a musty smell that is now, in the presence of invasive mammals, maladaptive.
You know what other bird only breeds during masting years? Chickens. We exploited that to battery farm them, and they lay eggs as long as food is plentiful, which we provide all the time, to which they respond by laying eggs basically every day. The solution to kakapo survival is clear: captive breeding and battery farming.
When he said smell, I was thinking something awful, like skunks. But a musty smell wouldn't be all that bad. Also, the kakapos are cute when doing that little "dance" and their fuzzy faces are cuter than the average parrot.
@@BizarreBeasts i was looking at the Mantis shrimp. I sugested it last month because of its colors and punches. It punches with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and it has 16 cones and pins in its eyes
Thank you for covering these lovely creatures and thank you for bothering to use macrons when writing their Māori name. I wanted to add, one of the other problems with mast years is the increase in (imported) pests that they create. As well as the usual mice, rats, stoats and feral cats, wasps are a huge problem in the forests here. There's a very sobering film called Bandits of the Beech Forests that talks about what a threat wasps are to our native birds. The wasps see the birds as competition for the much prized Beech honeydew, swarm them and sting them to death. As they're in the depths of the forests it's proving almost impossible to eradicate them. On a lighter note, mouse populations also boom in mast years and competition for food becomes so fierce that mice end up swimming across rivers to reach more and end up being eaten by trout who seem to love them. I've seen photos of trout with a dozen fat mice in their bellies.
The pins are long gone, but we do have 3-D printed kākāpō figurines! complexly.store/products/kakapo-3-d-printed-figurine
An entire video about the kakapo that doesn't show the BBC clip with Stephen Fry where one gets busy on that guy's head. That is impressive restraint.
That particular kākāpō does make an appearance at 5:27 though.
Oh, I've seen that one. Mark Carwardine is his name, and -- I can't speak for him -- but I feel it would be an honour to be violated by a kakapo.
Incidentally, I think it's *good* we have enough recent footage of these freaky parrots that we don't need to reuse 10+ years old footage. There are still far too few of them, but they're on the rebound
"You are being shagged by a rare parrot".
It sounds like a Monty Python skit. :)
All the rest of the clips weren’t enough for you?😄
That video is legendary
A MAGNIFICENT CHONK.
Ah, yes DA CHONK
Being from New Zealand I don't think Kakapos are bizarre, just cute, and in need of protection. thank you for telling the world about them.
Being from NZ you should know that Maori nouns are the same in singular and plural: a Kakapo, some Kakapo
@@exmachinz Not necessarily. Maybe your educational background is more vast than original commenter *shrugging*
Mind you I hope they appreciate the truth you kindly shared.
As the indigenous people of New Zealand do not have letter "S" *fistbump*
May you both lead a life y'all enjoy bc that's best all over for our own wellbeing *peacesign*
Live long and prosper 🖖🏾🖖🏾🚹🚺🚻🤓🤓🤓🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🖖🏾
No fighting or I'll turn this car around and you won't get any ice cream
have you thought about just shooting the predators?
"if humans can give a name for every member of your species, things are not going well for you."
you mean, like.... humans? i mean, you're not wrong...
I was going to comment that
Despite the constant fretting over the world ending, humanity has been doing consistently better over the long term. The only real issue facing us right now is the sudden increase in misinformation that came with Facebook's explosion of older members in 2014-2016.
Yep hes very right
@@austinshoupe3003 And the encroaching effects of climate change. And the ever increasing gap between those at the top of the socio-economic pecking order and the bottom. And the ease of disease to spread through our globalized world. I could go on, but... I think y'all get it.
@@ShadowMageAlpha I'm sorry, but I don't think you are applying context. Medical science is at a point we're we likely would not have a repeat of the bubonic plague or spanish flu. Diseases can spread easily but Covid, as bad as it's been, does not touch either of those earlier instances. Vaccines are also preventing all sorts of awful diseases such as polio and the various poxes.
Socio economic diversity is definitely on the down trend in developed nations, but among all nations the gap is closing. Also, our current state of socio split doesn't touch that of pre 1940s or the racial split pre 1990s.
The climate issue is persisting largely due to our misinformation issue. Too many politicians continuing to be reelected because their supports don't believe we have influenced climate change. Those same people tend to not want to participate in global strategies that will reduce the emissions of developing nations. Overall, the world is getting better about emissions, just not quick enough. Fix the misinformation issue (which honestly means waiting until the boomers die off in significant numbers) and the climate issue becomes manageable. Same with repeats of covid. The disease was well maintained in much of the world. The US just sucked at it because the president declared it a hoax. Other nations that struggled were nations also struggling with similar surges of nationalist, science refuting movements.
Things look bad over the 5 year trend. Long term were still trending up.
Aaah, yes. My favorite of the flightless dinosaurs. The one that answers the age old question: what if cat but birb?
Isn’t that just an owl?
What?
But the cats clearly don't appreciate the resemblance, vis a vis the cats eating them to the point of extinction.
Birb cats are owls.
Kakapos are victorian gentleman birbs.
@@blacky_Ninja indeed
“The one thing that birds are supposed to do”, i.e. suddenly appear every time you are near
Just like me, they long to be, close to you
That is like the most friendly bird you can encountered in the wild, they don't even wanna run/fly away from us omg xD
@Teamgeist it's cool, I'm into that
That's just because their defense mechanism is to freeze.
its thought that's why a lot of birds are extinct in New Zealand, moas for example being curious walking up to the first humans there who wanted to make them dinner.
Hahah yes "friendly", just watch your necks don't get shacked.
I died at "And they choose a male for reasons unknown to science."
That's how I feel when a woman agrees to a date with me. [dead]
*one male, not a male, very different meaning
I think my favorite is the explanation of their breeding systems ending with him saying that males had to compete for females by sheer sexiness
@@jek__ yeah, Hank was very clear on his wording and people just don't get it.
Fun fact that is also why my wife chose me
Thanks for repping my babies Hank - Advocacy Ranger for the Kakapo Recovery Team =)
Thank you so much for doing this work!
That booming sound is so subtle on my phone. I can barely sense its presence through vibration on my hands, landing completely deaf on my ears.
I donʻt know if this is an interesting fact, but anyways: Kākāpō literally means ‘Night parrot’ (kākā - parrot, pō - night).
My favourite bird. Cutey chubbies and heartbreaking
Yeah it is heartbreaking. We should ban cats in the south island. would be a good start i reckon
@@MysterySmell I think just making it so every adopted cat has to be an indoor cat would be better
@@swimmingpigeon7034i reckon only if we drag them out on the street to shave there little kitty heads to brand them the traitors to new zealand they are....
In what language? Because in German... kaka=poo, Po=butt.
I just assumed some German scientist decided to humiliate this poor creature (...further).
@@susannadanner906 it’s Maori
It’s freaking running a rodent OS on bird hardware.
We also had the largest eagle - the haast eagle that used to prey on the Moa, it is said they could pick up and fly away with small children. They went extinct when the Moa did.
This video added a whole new anxiety to my life I didn't realize I needed. As a violin teacher with a large number of student instruments on hand to rent out, I'm going to start being extra vigilant for stoats and cats being attracted to my musty smelling cases. I mean - I hadn't noticed the musty smell myself, but maybe it's there and I just got used to it! Aaccck!
Scares away rapists, too.
😆
as a violinist, I think they're talking about that smell of like, rosin and old wood and such that hits you when you open an older violin case. which is a nice smell, so now I love kakapos more than I already did.
@@mimisezlol I know, but aren't you worried about all the predators he mentioned who are also attracted to the scent? Are our instruments in danger? (I guess if we get them out often, we're safe... 😅)
@@Judymontel if a cat shows up and discovers that the smell only leads to a weird shaped wooden box, they won't associate the smell with food anymore, just betrayal. How dare we open our violin cases and not have food inside. This is a major crime.
@@mimisezlol Thank you for the cat's perspective. It is such a comfort. (And a good point for ferrets and stoats as well!) 😊
Thank you for actually posting sources, its infuriating how so many channels with great educational content don't do this
5:15. I notice that the original range of the kakapo is almost completely outside that of the Hass eagle, which only went extinct 200 years ago. That was the largest predator on South Island, pretty well limited to the east & north sides.
is it weird that I know EXACTLY what "musty violin case" smells like?
Depends. Do you play the violin? If so, not that weird. If you don't - yeah; let's leave it at that.
@@MrAranton lol
@@MrAranton I don't, lol.
Same, as soon as he said it I was catapulted right back to eighth grade orchestra classes
No, it’s really not.
(Australia and New Zealand could pretty much monopolize this channel.)
Hank: "Their unusual breeding system: they lek!"
Me: "How the hell they reproduce if they lack a breeding system???"
Gotta love those rotund weirdos and their heartbeats in the night mating calls ^^
"Maybe there's still hope for the fattest of parrots" thank you, Hank, for summing it neatly
I wish I could just buy a school's worth of pins and make this a monthly thing in schools. children should get these and have fun watching this channel. every child with their favorite animal pin waiting to hear about the next beast. thank you hank green you're just one of many heroes I hope to live up to the standards you set as a person. be awesome.
And another cool fact about the Kakapo: Douglas Adams wrote a full chapter about them :)
His description of their escape strategy is simultaneously hilarious and tragic
In which book?
@@EmjiAmsdaughter last chance to see
@@m1shm4sh Thanks!
4:55 I want that as a cologne. Kākāpō by Kiwi Klein
Ironically, in Cologne, Kakapo means something you don't want to smell like.
For the future, you should know that Maori nouns are the same for both singular and plural, like sheep.
So 1 Kakapo, 2 Kakapo
I got so emotional when he said that their numbers were increasing I'm so happy for them
Okay, but now you have to look at the Kea. They’re ALSO just as bizarre as Kea. They’re the ONLY alpine parrot and there are a lot of reports, AND PICTURES, of them sitting on the backs of sheep and EATING THEM? They’re also super super smart, and super super mischievous.
i mean, to be fair, kea try to eat/open/get inside/destroy anything and everything; them tryna get inside a sheep doesn't surprise me
@@alliebean3235 EXACTLY!! They’re so cool!
DO the Kea next! Nobody expects 2 New Zealand parrots!
Now I'm proud to have watched Bizarre Beasts Year I because I know what lecking is!
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was caught of guard by the English language randomly incorporating Swedish words, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right?
Lek in Swedish means unstructured play, as in by children.
So the birds are said to be playing with each other.
yes "playing"
It also catches me offguard, when German words (except the usual ones) are used in a scientific context.
It never stops being funny to me, even tho it's really common in some fields
5:36 That's so damn cute. I know we shouldn't save things based on cuteness alone and should value them for their own sake (and I do), but just this once can we all agree to not mess this one up and save these adorable weird chubby parrots? Please and Thank you.
Best wishes to you and your brother and all your family for happiness and health in 2021.
Smell like a musty violin case? That's the first time scientists describe an animal smell as something I've had experience with.
Fun fact! Parrots are often strongly scented, at least in a way we can smell. That's an observation I've made anyway. My jardine's parrot just passed away in a freak accident last weekend, but she smelled amazing. It's like a musty-sweet smell bird parents all love. My blue and gold macaw, Merlin, smells the best of all my birds. I love giving him a big obnoxious sniff and then dramatically going "AHH, I love the smell of boy in the morning" while he stands there like ???
But the best smelling parrot I've ever encountered in my time working in rescue are blue headed pionus. Dude it's literally like they're wearing a mild, sweet but still faintly musty perfume. I'm don't do perfumes but I'd wear it. She smells incredible and she can be smelled a few feet, not just point blank like almost every other parrot.
I canNOT properly express how gosh-danged excited I am to get my pin!!!
This channel is so good and has a great future. Really glad to be here this early
I feel like you learned about acorns going crazy this year at John's house and that took you down a rabbit hole. And I love it.
What about the bit where they roost in trees but can't fly so they fall out every morning like feathery rocks? If you're wondering how they get into the trees, they can climb.
absolutely one of my favorite birds. they’re such delightfully weird little creatures
Thank the spirits 2021 starts out with Hank + Bizarre Beasts. Hanks the man and I want him to narrate everything.
The cutest "beast" yet! Thank you for the great work!
I was in a back country hut in the middle of the South Island and one cruised out of the bush in broad daylight, mooched around the hut for a while and sauntered off back into the tussock. Quite the lucky sighting
Thats really cool. I'm super jealous. Pretty sure there's not many kiwi who have seen one.
I´m guessing you should REPORT THAT to the breeding programm ... you may have seen one who has no name (and no protection).
@@CL-go2ji it had plenty of tags on….. was tame as so well used to humans. Pretty awesome to see however!
Okay - then it was just really cool! Congratulations.@@speedmachine69
Congratulations on a decent attempt at saying the Māori words. Some overseas commentators make a real hash of it.
This bird is so weird and cute. Thanks for sharing! Your background is rad btw.
Their dance is precious
Theyre like, a gopher plus a bird plus like, a butt ton of moss lmao
Nocturnal, stinky weirdo was my nickname in high school.
finally kakapo getting the attention they deserve
Hank being confused is... Adorable
Hold on, humans have given a name to every single member of another species, that numbers in the billions.
I literally went to the info tab because I kept seeing all of your pins and wanted to see if they were in your shop, and then, SURPRISE MYSTERY PIN GRAB BAGS, my only weakness
Such goofy looking animals. Love it.
Okay, but that "booming" was definitely just a light saber and you can't tell me otherwise
LITTLE PENGUINS!!!! Honestly my favourite animal on earth right now
I'm sticking with my theory that NZ is where Pokémon come from. The Kakapo! Even it's name sounds like a Pokémon!
They are so cute.
Isnt 'musty violin case' just tree resin
Musty violin case is oddly specific
When I was about 9 or 10 I made a kakapo costume for my doll out of an inside-out Dixie paper cup and Crayola markers. What.
I love kakapos so much! They make me smile.
2:55 Ladies love it when you drop that bass.
Thank you for covering my favourite bird species, they need so much awareness
I love those chunky bords so much.
We in NZ are very proud to provide home for a gazillion wee weird flightless beasties!!!!
The scent is also described as "musty -sweet" like honey
Ohhh, isn't masting the same thing bamboo does when it makes a buttload of bamboo rice? It's what lead to chickens being marvelous at egg laying, and thought to be a chief reason why they were domesticated.
Is Kevin from Up supposed to be an Upland Moa? 'Cause that looks a lot like Kevin.
I’ve long suspected that Kevin’s body shape is indeed based on ratites - a group of birds which does include moa, among others (ex. kiwi, emu, ostrich). Ratites are found throughout the southern hemisphere, including South America, so it would make sense for Kevin to be one of these. However, there are no ratites which have feathers as colourful as Kevin!
@@anonymousdalek8359 Or beaks quite as long. Kevin looks more like a flightless wading bird that became fully terrestrial.
“Yaeh maet that buehd smellin loik a mustey vaiolin case” LMAOO THAT IS THE MOST PRECISE AND QUANTIFIABLE DESCRIPTION I HAVE EVER HEARD
As a NZer, I say "Well done!" regarding this presentation.
I have seen so many items on NZ that are just plain wrong or confused or get the wrong tone or angle. This is all facts, a light touch, no mocking, just excellent. Thanks!
Please tell me you will do some more New Zealand birds. There are kea, the only alpine parrot, the kiwi - birds with longest nose, and tuatara (which I think might be a form of allopatric speciation from the Australian Water Dragon - unconfirmed)
They are about the coolest and most adorable birds ever!
NZ is so wild and gorgeous and bizarre and in my humble opinion has the funniest people on earth.
If I'm not mistaken, the kakapo is the bird used as Twitch's RareParrot and PartyParrot emotes. I absolutely adore both, especially PartyParrot. Keep these little meme birbs alive!
I was playing World of Warcraft Dragonflight the other day and i was standing in some random place with some old buildings and a railing on top of a mountain, and i saw a little green bird on the railing. I got closer to it and saw it was called Kakapo. I thought that was really cool and cute. I wanted to tame it as my pet, but I couldn't. So i killed it.
You monster
How many people are there who have smelled both a kākāpō and a musty violin case? Maybe two or three? And we're taking their word for it that those two things smell alike? I demand a larger body of witnesses. I demand peer-reviewed documentation. I demand independent corroboration.
It's a Douglas Adams comparison. =)
I work for the kākāpō recovery programme, maybe I should organise a couple of violinists to come in and we'll see what the team thinks haha
I hope that I can reach a point in my career in Pacific island forest ecology that I can leverage my influence enough to get to one of the two strictly controlled islands where kakapō are and see/smell one. THEY'RE SO WEIRD. I LOVE THEM. And also I'm curious to know if their smell is the same as the Hawaiian honeycreeper smell... another group of birds that evolved without mammal predators and have a musty smell that is now, in the presence of invasive mammals, maladaptive.
Well, now....now we need scented pins. That just needs to be a thing.
I'm a luthier and the "musty violin case" description is...upsettingly evocative
You know what other bird only breeds during masting years? Chickens. We exploited that to battery farm them, and they lay eggs as long as food is plentiful, which we provide all the time, to which they respond by laying eggs basically every day. The solution to kakapo survival is clear: captive breeding and battery farming.
I'm late to find this channel, but pre-cancer straight haired Hank is so odd. I like the new you man! :D
Musty violin case is such a specific scent description that my brain cannot compute
I guess that one Kakapo got... lekky.
You should add a sticker option in addition to the pin club I would love to put them on a laptop
I would join the club if it was stickers!
They are so cute, I have loved them for years! I want a few dozen of them, and an island on which to raise them.
woah the booming sounds a lot like a bass
These are cute lil skrunkly creatures and are now my favorite bird! Thank you for telling me about them :>
When he said smell, I was thinking something awful, like skunks. But a musty smell wouldn't be all that bad. Also, the kakapos are cute when doing that little "dance" and their fuzzy faces are cuter than the average parrot.
Smells like a musty violin case? I am sold!
I learned about 5 new words in the past 10 minutes.
"...As you do I guess" is now the newest addition to my vocabulary
It looks like a Dr Seuss character
Hooray! Kakapos getting the love they deserve at last!
Kakapos trigger my cuteness aggression on a scale priorly unimaginable. Wanna squeesh dat chonky birb.
Great video as always just wondering how far back your stock of content is? Do you have the whole year planned already?
We are always looking for new critters!
@@BizarreBeasts Can you do some type of spider? I love them and I think peacock spiders would be really neat!
@@BizarreBeasts i was looking at the Mantis shrimp. I sugested it last month because of its colors and punches. It punches with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and it has 16 cones and pins in its eyes
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Always been a fan of Moa's. Wish they were still around.
Yep...
These little guys are so cute!!
Kakapo are my favorite animals 😭 thanks for making this
their eye position and their sheer mass are serving me some real uncanny valley. They look too... human-ish. Like pallas cats but more severe
Thank you for covering these lovely creatures and thank you for bothering to use macrons when writing their Māori name. I wanted to add, one of the other problems with mast years is the increase in (imported) pests that they create. As well as the usual mice, rats, stoats and feral cats, wasps are a huge problem in the forests here. There's a very sobering film called Bandits of the Beech Forests that talks about what a threat wasps are to our native birds. The wasps see the birds as competition for the much prized Beech honeydew, swarm them and sting them to death. As they're in the depths of the forests it's proving almost impossible to eradicate them. On a lighter note, mouse populations also boom in mast years and competition for food becomes so fierce that mice end up swimming across rivers to reach more and end up being eaten by trout who seem to love them. I've seen photos of trout with a dozen fat mice in their bellies.