The day after my graduation we went to Dunedin's botanical gardens to take some pictures in full regalia, when a cockatoo in the aviary greeted me with "what's up, doc?", thus becoming the first stranger to address me by my new title. Quite fitting for a zoologist.
There was a crow in my school who was very aware of who was scared of him and who was not. At lunch, he used to hop onto where the girls who were scared were sitting and had them running away screaming. He then helped himself to their lunches. People like me, who weren't scared of him, he approached cautiosly and politely asked us for food. 😅
Did it take a few bites of each lunch? I wonder if any girls in particular brought lunches that the crow liked best. "That one brings curried egg sammies! And that one brings grapes!" It's odd that the girls didn't learn to relax. What did you usually share with it?
My Stepdad was a veterinarian and he found an injured young crow. He fixed his wing and then released him on his property. The crow lived at his house after that stealing dog food and would “play” with tools and bits and bobs around the barn. If my stepdad was working on something the crow would come and take things or he would throw dog food at the dog to distract him and then steal something to get attention. He stuck around for years until one day he wasn’t there anymore.
Oh my, I’m not from Australia and I’ve only recently discovered Dr Jones… What a national treasure you have in her! She’s an absolutely brilliant, empathetic and completely charismatic expert. I’m enamored!
Crows are so cool!! They’ve memorized the garbage schedule in NYC and they’ve been known to have friendships with wolves, even playing fetch with them!!
The nut caching and letting them be cracked by cars was something the crows did where I lived a couple of years ago. These crows had worked out to drop their nuts on the zebra crossing across the main road. Then they'd sit on the traffic light and wait for the green pedestrian signal to retrieve their nuts. Absolutely amazing creatures. There was a woodland near and so many crows lived there, the sky in late afternoon would sometimes be black when they all swarmed out.
I could watch that kind of (?mis-) behaviour, for hours I think. I just love their dour personalities... "This tree's mine, and this roof is mine, and this car top is mine, don't you creatures get it?"
Ive not long found Dr Ann Jones and i gotta say.... i frigging love her, she super cool and i feel embodies who most of us Aussies are, when people think Aussie and nature they think Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee, we arent all like that.
Aw, who gave the outrageously gorgeous Dr. Jones the thumbs down?! Own up, you heartless dullard! Thank you, Doctor. Another terrific vid, and I'm glad you're surviving the pandemic with flying colours, and flying possums.
there's always about 2% thumbs down, no matter the video 🤷♂️ maybe it's the theist in the comment section; didn't like the evolution reference (Paul Revere1776)
I mean tbf human babies are already pretty undercooked. Our head size at birth is so large (bc of big brain ooga booga) that it is among the most difficult births in the animal kingdom. The baby physically couldn't stay inside any longer or we'd die giving birth (even more often). Thats why babies are so useless for so long, compared to other species.
I live in northern Georgia, U.S., and we have tons of opossums and raccoons. One summer a huge white opossum would walk up the paving stones to the porch every night, to get leftover cat food. We started putting extra out for him, and then quietly watch him enjoying dinner.
Dr Jones you are like a breathe of fresh air to the ABC. You seem to have a very personable personality, have fun and enjoy what you are doing. It is a enjoyable pleasure to watch your channel. Hoping for a lot more to come. Thank you.
Dr Ann, i absolutely adore your interesting, informative, videos but most of all your personality!! Your sweet laugh is most enjoyable yet I’m always a bit sad that we don’t live closer to one another! I would definitely seek you out for a fun-filled lunch! Hello from Arizona, USA 🌹
Possums are urban dwellers in the US, though they look very different from the Australian variety. One evening, I once saw one walking through my neighborhood with her babies on her back.
Back when I had a lot of cats I somehow got an opossum inside and my cats kept it hidden til half grown. When I found out what they were so secretive about I made sure it could forage then tried to evict it (no idea what sex it was). Never made friends, never moved quick enough to close the door on it, quit trying for the winter, come spring it willingly went out (mostly). Very good insect exterminator. Over generations "my" possums have become wilder/less tame, seldom duck inside, and I was irritated this summer to have an insect problem. Have only a few cats, only one who knew the invaders. Actually miss having someone yank on my toe to wake up and open cat food. They're weird.
What aussies call opossums are called possums in the United States. And I agree with the other commentary. Possums are cute with their little white faces. I've seen mamas carrying babies on their backs too.
@@meegansandberg1308 They're actually called opossums here too; we're just lazy and drop the "o" a lot. I like to joke with people that the "o" is silent. =3
I found your clips on here, and I must say your laugh is contagious, and I love your outlook on the world’s wild life! Understanding the pros and cons, and the reality of life!
My blue headed pionus parrot is the BEST! He doesn’t like noise in his environment and will make noise to convey his displeasure. He is the most wonderful bird I have ever had.
I used to give my dog (a beagle) large plastic bottles to play with. He loved the crunch sound they made when he bit down. And played fetch with them. His last trick before tossing it aside was to screw the top off. Clever boy! He is nearly 18 y.o. now.
16:22 oooo... I think I found my next ringtone... I grew up in Aus, and the thing I loved the most about cockatoos in the wild, was watching them land on a branch after flying at full speed. They hardly slow down, but simply grab a passing branch at near full speed, as they fly by, and then swing back n forth to a halt. Hilarious.
when i was a baby, my parents sister and i went to a farm with baboons (i’m south african). after a day or two my dad can back into the house and came face to face with a baboon in the kitchen holding a packet of chips under one arm and a bunch of oranges in the other (and one in his mouth lol). he freaked out a little bc a baby had been kidnapped my a grieving mother baboon a few weeks earlier, and so kind of didn’t want these baboons stealing me! so he realised that he had accidentally cornered this baboon in the kitchen and was like ‘shut’ and then made a whole big deal of acting big and stupid to “accidentally” let the baboon run past him bahahaa. everybody was okay on the end and the baboons had a nice lunch.
I live in Arkansas. We have road runners here, they are amazing little birds when they get to know you. We had one that would sit at our window and wait for me to let my small dogs out so they could play chase around a tree in our yard. It was they funniest thing. The dogs even understood it was a game and had a lot of fun playing with it.
I absolutely love the Virginia Opossum, for some reason i think theyre extremely adorable. The greatest thing is that theyre not afraid of humans, and they try and intimidate you by growling and showing their teeth, but theyre essentially all talk no action.
Great fact about corvid intelligence: crows pick up discarded cigarettes that are still burning, hold them in their beaks, and fly around to "smoke out" the parasites in their feathers, they cannot reach. According to UK research from the early 2000s, it's really effective. Please make another episode about Ibises, Seagulls, Racoons and obviously the animal IQ superstars - Kea parrots.
Horses may not spontaneously dance, but they definitely will react to music and keep time with it, sometimes without encouragement. I used to drive a carriage downtown and the horse I usually drove, Belle, was sometimes kind of slow. I started suspecting that she was walking faster to faster music, but it got confirmed one day when a group of conventioners asked me to turn on polka music, and I have never seen that horse walk so fast, because she was keeping time with the polka music! High level dressage horses definitely keep time with music during freestyle routines, not just because they're being cued to, but because it's either innate or they just like it.
1st of all, you are one of the most pleasant presenters I have come across. 2ndly, I never knew until I saw this video that crows could mimic us talking and that's odd since we have a lot of crows in our country 😅 But now I feel they are a very underrated animal. There should be so many more viral videos of them taking. I guess most ppl are scares of them so don't have them as pets which is why there aren't many videos of them talking floating around. Thanks
Heard a ruckus in the house, middle of the night, like someone was trying to get a sliding door opened in the spare room. Peeked in, and a possum strutted casually out, made his way to the kitchen door, and sat waiting for us to open it. We opened it, because we are good servants. He just strolled out. He'd made his way in through the spare room window someone had left open, but the sliding door had tricked him, because it had been closed for a change. He'd obviously done this route before. (Aussie possum). Also young people were, once again, adjured not leave leftovers on plates all over the spare room, where a computer was. Ah well. At least he got fed regularly. 16:58 and the most important information on cockatoos - is that they can live over 80 years. Longer than most humans. On that basis alone, they should never be household pets, unless there's a good reason for caring for them (i.e. they cannot fly or be rehabilitated into the wild, because they were exported to a foreign land). Even galahs can live a very long time. Most parrots, actually. Be mindful when taking that responsibility on.
Same with my pet snake. I thought about it for four+ years while saving up the money to get one if I was really ready to take on that responsibility and lifestyle restrictions for somewhere between 30-40 years, but never wavered in wanting one, and now I've got the growing little bugger for 2 years and counting and still get bursts of joy from him every day. I went to the handler first and asked him a bunch of questions, to make sure the animal would be as compatible with my lifestyle as I thought it would be from my own research, and he said he was surprised I had put so much thought into it. It astounds me how few people even look up the average lifespan of an animal first before really considering getting one...
@@lemmetalkaboutthis Probably used to larger dogs, for example, who rarely live past 12 years, usually less. Even terriers and the smaller dogs can live past 15 years. Frankly, I was shocked when I found out white cockatoos can live so long. Made me even more heart-broken for all those stuck inside houses with humans, and none of their own kind to relate with. (Keeping in mind that sometimes they cannot be rehabilitated, or released into the wild. Speaking of people who fall in love with one, a bird who has been taken from its own habitat, or bred far away from its natural environment; I'm always glad to see mutual affection but it is still unnatural for the bird). And what kind of snake lives that long? How big will it get?
I live in country WA and my nan would take me with her as a teenager so she could go to her specialist doctors appointments in Perth safely. I’ve always had a huge love of animals so she would take me to the zoo on a lot of these trips and there were squirrels just roaming freely around the zoo grounds! I don’t know if they still do but it was always awesome to see them ❤
Apparently they have moved out into the city as well lol www.agric.wa.gov.au/news/media-releases/look-out-pest-squirrels-perth#:~:text=Northern%20palm%20squirrels%20were%20familiar,and%20accidental%20movement%20via%20vehicles.
Skunks and opossums are total enemies and the skunk almost always wins their skirmishes with opossums. It didnt surprise me that the oppssum pushed the skunk into the water, 😅. I bet those two have had many fights and the skunk always got the best of the opossum. In fact, opossums can pretty much lose against any animal in a fight. They can make themselves look a little scary, but in reality, they are not well-equipped for fights.
G’day Ann! I love your videos Ann. You just have a very likable way to you. And I do like the Australia possum compared to its American counterpart. Ours look like they came from Kong Skull Island 😂. Keep up the really entertaining videos 😊
4:58 when you say "fight or flight" isn't it more accurate to say "flight, flight or play dead"..? I had a friend who had panic attacks and she kind of looked a bit like that possum when they were happening.. she couldn't control it, either.
I have possum friends. Their mum lived in my rollerdoor and I fed her regularly, so her joeys grew up knowing they could trust me. Sadly, Laya passed away. Her youngest son, Leon, lived in my rollerdoor for a short while but he moved out. I think his big brother, Barry, may have chased him away. I often see Barry and give him a bit of food. Common brush tailed possums are my very favourite marsupial
Antenna maintenance workers get aggravated with squirrels because they like to fill microwave antennas full of nuts, since parabolic microwave antennas typically have a cover over the dish. The transmission quality starts suffering, and when the maintenance worker takes the antenna’s cover off, hundreds of nuts come pouring out.
We see the Seagulls on the West Coast doing the same thing. Dropping their dinner in front of cars to be cracked open. Usually, I see them drop the seashell in the middle of an intersection. Better chances I guess hahaha
To the Crow/Hedgehog interaction: there might be a third (assumed) reason for the picking. Hedgehogs very often have exoparasites, such as fleas and ticks (FAT Ticks!) So, maybe the crow is just out there for a juicy snack - which of course would be a benefit for the 🦔 lil fella also. Just a thought of a veterinary nurse...
The squirl with the big jump, at 6:42 yep, it did. I saw this video another time, where it was longer. You can see the squirl running away...so yeah it did survive.
Back in the 80's, when I lived with my younger daughter's father, we moved into a new place. The first evening we spent there, he was looking out the kitchen window. He called me, very excitedly. "Come here quick! It's the biggest rat I've ever seen!" I looked out the window to see the back end of an opossum waddling off our back porch!😂😂😂 Some people think opossums are ugly, but I think they're cute with their little white faces. Even if they do look a little like Gene Simmons. 😂
Ɓack in the day my Dad used to take us camping in the north of Ontario. I recall the birds my Dad referred to as Whiskey Jacks being very large like magpies, and they were very smart and fearless. They would fly down and perch on something that was close to the picnic table. The moment they thought the coast was clear, one would try to create a diversion by flying into the sitting area while the other flew onto the picnic table to grab food. One even stole the hotdog from my bun while I was holding it.
Opposums are extremely gentle and mild mannered. They get the worst reputation and they do look scary, but they’re absolutely harmless. They aren’t rabies carriers, they aren’t aggressive - they eat ticks and are extremely chill.
When I was 8mos pregnant, this rather big male monkey just ambled in and came straight at me! Turns out, I’d left the balcony door open and he sauntered into the kitchen… I ran aside and just let him have his way… he just wanted the big mango I’d been saving for myself!! He peeled it nicely and ate the fruit n left. That’s all he wanted… bless him. 🥰 I guess he enjoyed that mango wayyy more than I ever could. 😂
There was a squirrel that jumped off the power line to my huge pine tree in my backyard. It missed the branch and windmilled til it hit the ground with a loud thud. It jumped right back up and ran up the tree. Completely blew my mind because I was sure I just watched it die!
I saw a cocky at Kirrawee railway station with a variation on the wheelie bin trick.There were open top, barrel-shaped bins on the platform. The bins had recently been emptied, so the food at the bottom of the bin was out of reach. No worries if youre a cocky. Just pull up the plastic bin liner with your beak, grasp that bit with your foot, repeat, repeat... until the bottom of the bag reaches the top lip of the bin. Thats how you get the food when your smarter than every one else with feathers.
That guy was being so dramatic about that possum and when it came out it was the cutest lil baby
In cases like that, my grandpa would tell me, "They're more afraid of you than you are of them. "
His cat and dog hardly reacted. There was no danger to be had.
But i get it, it's easy to freak out about things you're not used to...
Yes the opossum baby was little I wonder where his siblings are and mumma
@@meegansandberg1308yep goes for most things
I feel embarrassed for the puff in the pink shirt! What a pointless display of drama. Wow!
The day after my graduation we went to Dunedin's botanical gardens to take some pictures in full regalia, when a cockatoo in the aviary greeted me with "what's up, doc?", thus becoming the first stranger to address me by my new title. Quite fitting for a zoologist.
That’s absolutely fantastic 😊
What a perfect thing to happen! Made me lol.
How are you doing now?
That is super special! Congratulations Doctor!!!
How cute!
Lmaooo....Give that cockatoo a PhD.
There was a crow in my school who was very aware of who was scared of him and who was not. At lunch, he used to hop onto where the girls who were scared were sitting and had them running away screaming. He then helped himself to their lunches. People like me, who weren't scared of him, he approached cautiosly and politely asked us for food. 😅
Did it take a few bites of each lunch? I wonder if any girls in particular brought lunches that the crow liked best. "That one brings curried egg sammies! And that one brings grapes!" It's odd that the girls didn't learn to relax. What did you usually share with it?
My Stepdad was a veterinarian and he found an injured young crow. He fixed his wing and then released him on his property. The crow lived at his house after that stealing dog food and would “play” with tools and bits and bobs around the barn. If my stepdad was working on something the crow would come and take things or he would throw dog food at the dog to distract him and then steal something to get attention. He stuck around for years until one day he wasn’t there anymore.
I want to believe he hopped a train to travel to the big city where he had a girlfriend.
Annndddd Ann Jones is back! 🤓 What do you think of our new series, How Extra?
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Love Anne's videos
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There’s nothing better than watching a video of a person who delights in their job.
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NO 'WE'don't. abc science?? A1 gurning festival. YOYOY ??
@@raymondo162 Huh??
@@raymondo162 you have just typed gobbledegook. Are you on drugs?
The opossum pushing the skunk in the water...lmao....that felt kind of personal.
I think they have a rivalry that stretches back millennia
Australian possums are much cuter then American ones! Ours look like giant mutant rats lol
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I honestly didn’t know those were called possums
@@joeybulford5266 Honestly I don't even know if that's the correct name I was just guessing! Lol
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That’s what they were called in the video
Oh my, I’m not from Australia and I’ve only recently discovered Dr Jones… What a national treasure you have in her! She’s an absolutely brilliant, empathetic and completely charismatic expert. I’m enamored!
Haha same. I just started watching her videos a few days ago. I was surprised to see she’s been around for years
Crows are so cool!! They’ve memorized the garbage schedule in NYC and they’ve been known to have friendships with wolves, even playing fetch with them!!
“That’s Australia. Nature bites back.” Truer words were never heard.
The nut caching and letting them be cracked by cars was something the crows did where I lived a couple of years ago. These crows had worked out to drop their nuts on the zebra crossing across the main road. Then they'd sit on the traffic light and wait for the green pedestrian signal to retrieve their nuts. Absolutely amazing creatures. There was a woodland near and so many crows lived there, the sky in late afternoon would sometimes be black when they all swarmed out.
I could watch that kind of (?mis-) behaviour, for hours I think. I just love their dour personalities... "This tree's mine, and this roof is mine, and this car top is mine, don't you creatures get it?"
@@NavigatorMother : Funny, I've never seen a crow (or raven) behave in a relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy manner...
Ive not long found Dr Ann Jones and i gotta say.... i frigging love her, she super cool and i feel embodies who most of us Aussies are, when people think Aussie and nature they think Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee, we arent all like that.
I was admiring a raven back 2003 and i accidentally sneezed on him. I apologized and he nodded. He was so beautiful!
And that is how the Bird Flu started- Thank you!
Lol! @@ninabriesch4184
I am just discovering this show...and I'm hooked!
2:19 you have very adorable possums in Australia… on the West Coast of United States we have pretty ugly opossums. 😂
Squirrels used to hide their nuts in my outside pot plants, some even grew. Every spring when i want to garden, I put their nuts alongside the pots.
Love this!
I'm pretty sure they do knowingly plant them. Or part of them, really.
Aw, who gave the outrageously gorgeous Dr. Jones the thumbs down?! Own up, you heartless dullard!
Thank you, Doctor. Another terrific vid, and I'm glad you're surviving the pandemic with flying colours, and flying possums.
there's always about 2% thumbs down, no matter the video 🤷♂️
maybe it's the theist in the comment section; didn't like the evolution reference (Paul Revere1776)
@@fukpoeslaw3613 Shouldn't they be out shooting road signs, or something? While social distancing, I mean?
@@blackpeter70 they probably shoot with one hand, steer with their knee and dislike with the other hand...
anyways, social distancing's guaranteed
Right! I absolutely love her!! Some people however 👅 SUCK
@@denisepeterson2082 She still won't go out with me, Denise. I'm a broken man. 😺
OMG! I am loving Dr Ann, her commentary is not only informative but so freak'n funny! Love these videos, thank you for making my day!
You are so welcome!
I absolutely Love Ann She is Choice and she makes my days ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you Ann ❤❤❤
Imagine how much easier childbirth would be if humans had a pouch and just had the baby come out undercooked and developing in the pouch for a bit. 😂
Undercooked 😂😂😂
I mean tbf human babies are already pretty undercooked. Our head size at birth is so large (bc of big brain ooga booga) that it is among the most difficult births in the animal kingdom. The baby physically couldn't stay inside any longer or we'd die giving birth (even more often). Thats why babies are so useless for so long, compared to other species.
That would be terrifying, imagine a small mammalian creature climbing out of your vagina and hiding into your belly
@@meegansandberg1308 😀
And we'd have a built-in pocket to use the rest of the time. Or always.
I think the nut-cracking car gig is an example of 'tool use'. Crows are scary-smart.
Your possums are adorable! Here in America, our opossums aren’t winning any beauty contests, although they are cute, in my opinion…
I live in northern Georgia, U.S., and we have tons of opossums and raccoons. One summer a huge white opossum would walk up the paving stones to the porch every night, to get leftover cat food. We started putting extra out for him, and then quietly watch him enjoying dinner.
I missed Dr. Ann !, my favourite nature film narrator. It used to be Sir Attenburough who's films i still love to re-watch
She's so funny
I have seen video of monkeys at a temple stealing sunglasses and other items from tourists to trade them for food. THAT is so clever!
I'm doing an Australian zoology course. I'm originally from Broome, but now am in Queensland. Watching these videos always make me so happy ❤😊
Good luck with your studies! Thanks for watching.
This Lady has one of the nicest laugh and smile I know
Dr Jones you are like a breathe of fresh air to the ABC. You seem to have a very personable personality, have fun and enjoy what you are doing. It is a enjoyable pleasure to watch your channel. Hoping for a lot more to come. Thank you.
Dr. Ann's videos make my day. I always finish her videos happier than I started it.
Dr Ann, i absolutely adore your interesting, informative, videos but most of all your personality!! Your sweet laugh is most enjoyable yet I’m always a bit sad that we don’t live closer to one another! I would definitely seek you out for a fun-filled lunch! Hello from Arizona, USA 🌹
Possums are urban dwellers in the US, though they look very different from the Australian variety. One evening, I once saw one walking through my neighborhood with her babies on her back.
Back when I had a lot of cats I somehow got an opossum inside and my cats kept it hidden til half grown. When I found out what they were so secretive about I made sure it could forage then tried to evict it (no idea what sex it was). Never made friends, never moved quick enough to close the door on it, quit trying for the winter, come spring it willingly went out (mostly). Very good insect exterminator. Over generations "my" possums have become wilder/less tame, seldom duck inside, and I was irritated this summer to have an insect problem. Have only a few cats, only one who knew the invaders. Actually miss having someone yank on my toe to wake up and open cat food. They're weird.
Some people think they're ugly, but I think they are beautiful!
@@kathryngeeslin9509how exactly did your cats hide the opossum, please?
What aussies call opossums are called possums in the United States. And I agree with the other commentary. Possums are cute with their little white faces. I've seen mamas carrying babies on their backs too.
@@meegansandberg1308 They're actually called opossums here too; we're just lazy and drop the "o" a lot. I like to joke with people that the "o" is silent. =3
Good job Dr Jones, I love your style!
I watched crows at an outdoor cafe open packets of sugar and eat it. I love them, they're so clever. ☮️
I found your clips on here, and I must say your laugh is contagious, and I love your outlook on the world’s wild life! Understanding the pros and cons, and the reality of life!
So good to see Dr Ann again. Enjoyed this thank you.
My blue headed pionus parrot is the BEST! He doesn’t like noise in his environment and will make noise to convey his displeasure. He is the most wonderful bird I have ever had.
I never heard of that kind of parrot, so I looked it up. Amazing, beautiful colors!
I used to give my dog (a beagle) large plastic bottles to play with. He loved the crunch sound they made when he bit down. And played fetch with them. His last trick before tossing it aside was to screw the top off. Clever boy! He is nearly 18 y.o. now.
OMG I just seen the video with the crow snowboarding the roof the other day! Sooo cute!
sulphur crested Cockatoo get my vote every time ,super smart and a combination of beautiful and cute and out right amusing .
I love both possums and opossums...just maybe not so super close. They and i have a healthy respect for space between eachother ❤
Watched all Dr. Jones videos. I love her personality, I'll learn a lot from her 🥰😍🤩
Dr Jones, you are amazing and brilliant . Love your videos
16:22 oooo... I think I found my next ringtone...
I grew up in Aus, and the thing I loved the most about cockatoos in the wild, was watching them land on a branch after flying at full speed. They hardly slow down, but simply grab a passing branch at near full speed, as they fly by, and then swing back n forth to a halt. Hilarious.
She’s baaack! She’s the best :)
when i was a baby, my parents sister and i went to a farm with baboons (i’m south african). after a day or two my dad can back into the house and came face to face with a baboon in the kitchen holding a packet of chips under one arm and a bunch of oranges in the other (and one in his mouth lol). he freaked out a little bc a baby had been kidnapped my a grieving mother baboon a few weeks earlier, and so kind of didn’t want these baboons stealing me! so he realised that he had accidentally cornered this baboon in the kitchen and was like ‘shut’ and then made a whole big deal of acting big and stupid to “accidentally” let the baboon run past him bahahaa. everybody was okay on the end and the baboons had a nice lunch.
United States here. Did you just say a grieving mother baboon kidnapped a human baby?!😮
I live in Arkansas. We have road runners here, they are amazing little birds when they get to know you. We had one that would sit at our window and wait for me to let my small dogs out so they could play chase around a tree in our yard. It was they funniest thing. The dogs even understood it was a game and had a lot of fun playing with it.
I absolutely love the Virginia Opossum, for some reason i think theyre extremely adorable. The greatest thing is that theyre not afraid of humans, and they try and intimidate you by growling and showing their teeth, but theyre essentially all talk no action.
Your absolutely genuine love for animals is infectious
Dr. Jones is so fun to watch! I really enjoy these videos. LOL! 👍🏻😆
Baboon: Growls
Man: I'm just going to step back for a second, you take care
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Yay! Dr. Ann is back!!!
Wait, what.. no Aussies commenting Cockies?
Dr.Ann your person is so nice to watch.
Whatever you are doing, I wish you the best! 👍🙂🐨
Dr. Ann Jones brings me incredible joy.
In Canada, we have flying squirrels.
That's cool MaryAnn! The closest we have in Aus is the sugar glider. Very hard to find: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider
4:34 THE OPOSSUM LITERALLY SAID *’GET REKT’* LOL 😂
Great fact about corvid intelligence: crows pick up discarded cigarettes that are still burning, hold them in their beaks, and fly around to "smoke out" the parasites in their feathers, they cannot reach. According to UK research from the early 2000s, it's really effective.
Please make another episode about Ibises, Seagulls, Racoons and obviously the animal IQ superstars - Kea parrots.
Good to see Ann back on the interwebz.
Those dance moves would work on me. Much more effective than a 'pick-up' line.
Horses may not spontaneously dance, but they definitely will react to music and keep time with it, sometimes without encouragement. I used to drive a carriage downtown and the horse I usually drove, Belle, was sometimes kind of slow. I started suspecting that she was walking faster to faster music, but it got confirmed one day when a group of conventioners asked me to turn on polka music, and I have never seen that horse walk so fast, because she was keeping time with the polka music! High level dressage horses definitely keep time with music during freestyle routines, not just because they're being cued to, but because it's either innate or they just like it.
Love these, Ann's narration & laughter is the best
20:04 Ann... haven't you ever heard 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'? THAT'S how it knows how to own the bottle & drink! 🤪
I ADORE YOU, BTW!!!❤
Cockies on bins 😂😂
I can’t, you’re hilarious!
1st of all, you are one of the most pleasant presenters I have come across. 2ndly, I never knew until I saw this video that crows could mimic us talking and that's odd since we have a lot of crows in our country 😅 But now I feel they are a very underrated animal. There should be so many more viral videos of them taking. I guess most ppl are scares of them so don't have them as pets which is why there aren't many videos of them talking floating around. Thanks
This is a great series! Thanks!
i adore animals especially ravens and crows 🐦⬛ they’re just so quirky and cute and intelligent and so so so misunderstood. animals are awesome
Crows are my favourite bird along with Australian Magpies
My male budgie used to drum and compose music with his bell and soft chirps.
love cockatoo’s. I had the smaller sibling the cockatiel as a pet when I was a child. Very intelligent bird.
Heard a ruckus in the house, middle of the night, like someone was trying to get a sliding door opened in the spare room. Peeked in, and a possum strutted casually out, made his way to the kitchen door, and sat waiting for us to open it. We opened it, because we are good servants. He just strolled out. He'd made his way in through the spare room window someone had left open, but the sliding door had tricked him, because it had been closed for a change. He'd obviously done this route before. (Aussie possum). Also young people were, once again, adjured not leave leftovers on plates all over the spare room, where a computer was. Ah well. At least he got fed regularly. 16:58 and the most important information on cockatoos - is that they can live over 80 years. Longer than most humans. On that basis alone, they should never be household pets, unless there's a good reason for caring for them (i.e. they cannot fly or be rehabilitated into the wild, because they were exported to a foreign land). Even galahs can live a very long time. Most parrots, actually. Be mindful when taking that responsibility on.
Love this story!
Same with my pet snake. I thought about it for four+ years while saving up the money to get one if I was really ready to take on that responsibility and lifestyle restrictions for somewhere between 30-40 years, but never wavered in wanting one, and now I've got the growing little bugger for 2 years and counting and still get bursts of joy from him every day. I went to the handler first and asked him a bunch of questions, to make sure the animal would be as compatible with my lifestyle as I thought it would be from my own research, and he said he was surprised I had put so much thought into it. It astounds me how few people even look up the average lifespan of an animal first before really considering getting one...
@@lemmetalkaboutthis Probably used to larger dogs, for example, who rarely live past 12 years, usually less. Even terriers and the smaller dogs can live past 15 years. Frankly, I was shocked when I found out white cockatoos can live so long. Made me even more heart-broken for all those stuck inside houses with humans, and none of their own kind to relate with. (Keeping in mind that sometimes they cannot be rehabilitated, or released into the wild. Speaking of people who fall in love with one, a bird who has been taken from its own habitat, or bred far away from its natural environment; I'm always glad to see mutual affection but it is still unnatural for the bird). And what kind of snake lives that long? How big will it get?
I've been wondering what your name is - oi love your serieses! They're great! Well done, Ann!🎉😊😂❤❤
Y'all's possums are so cute..
I live in country WA and my nan would take me with her as a teenager so she could go to her specialist doctors appointments in Perth safely.
I’ve always had a huge love of animals so she would take me to the zoo on a lot of these trips and there were squirrels just roaming freely around the zoo grounds!
I don’t know if they still do but it was always awesome to see them ❤
Apparently they have moved out into the city as well lol
www.agric.wa.gov.au/news/media-releases/look-out-pest-squirrels-perth#:~:text=Northern%20palm%20squirrels%20were%20familiar,and%20accidental%20movement%20via%20vehicles.
Australian possums are so much cuter than North American ones…
What a cool video, thank you so much ❤ Greetings from Denmark 😊
Skunks and opossums are total enemies and the skunk almost always wins their skirmishes with opossums. It didnt surprise me that the oppssum pushed the skunk into the water, 😅. I bet those two have had many fights and the skunk always got the best of the opossum. In fact, opossums can pretty much lose against any animal in a fight. They can make themselves look a little scary, but in reality, they are not well-equipped for fights.
G’day Ann! I love your videos Ann. You just have a very likable way to you. And I do like the Australia possum compared to its American counterpart. Ours look like they came from Kong Skull Island 😂. Keep up the really entertaining videos 😊
Gotta love a scientist exclaiming "Aw, skunky!"❤
She's so natural. She She shd be a comedian. Luv this show. And learning too!
The best nerd ever!! I love this person!
4:58 when you say "fight or flight" isn't it more accurate to say "flight, flight or play dead"..? I had a friend who had panic attacks and she kind of looked a bit like that possum when they were happening.. she couldn't control it, either.
I have possum friends. Their mum lived in my rollerdoor and I fed her regularly, so her joeys grew up knowing they could trust me.
Sadly, Laya passed away. Her youngest son, Leon, lived in my rollerdoor for a short while but he moved out. I think his big brother, Barry, may have chased him away.
I often see Barry and give him a bit of food.
Common brush tailed possums are my very favourite marsupial
Antenna maintenance workers get aggravated with squirrels because they like to fill microwave antennas full of nuts, since parabolic microwave antennas typically have a cover over the dish. The transmission quality starts suffering, and when the maintenance worker takes the antenna’s cover off, hundreds of nuts come pouring out.
And lots of hungry squirrels.
We see the Seagulls on the West Coast doing the same thing. Dropping their dinner in front of cars to be cracked open. Usually, I see them drop the seashell in the middle of an intersection. Better chances I guess hahaha
Possums tippy tapping!?? They sound like a dang wombat up there. 😂
To the Crow/Hedgehog interaction: there might be a third (assumed) reason for the picking. Hedgehogs very often have exoparasites, such as fleas and ticks (FAT Ticks!)
So, maybe the crow is just out there for a juicy snack - which of course would be a benefit for the 🦔 lil fella also.
Just a thought of a veterinary nurse...
The flying squirrel was actually a sugar glider... belonged in your first category of possums 😅
You’re too awesome, Dr Jones!!😊
The squirl with the big jump, at 6:42 yep, it did. I saw this video another time, where it was longer. You can see the squirl running away...so yeah it did survive.
Back in the 80's, when I lived with my younger daughter's father, we moved into a new place. The first evening we spent there, he was looking out the kitchen window. He called me, very excitedly. "Come here quick! It's the biggest rat I've ever seen!" I looked out the window to see the back end of an opossum waddling off our back porch!😂😂😂 Some people think opossums are ugly, but I think they're cute with their little white faces. Even if they do look a little like Gene Simmons. 😂
Ɓack in the day my Dad used to take us camping in the north of Ontario. I recall the birds my Dad referred to as Whiskey Jacks being very large like magpies, and they were very smart and fearless. They would fly down and perch on something that was close to the picnic table. The moment they thought the coast was clear, one would try to create a diversion by flying into the sitting area while the other flew onto the picnic table to grab food. One even stole the hotdog from my bun while I was holding it.
The fact that she referenced 💋KISS (my childhood favourite + Elvis+Dolly Parton= one weird kid) has earned my👍& one more for content!
This host looks so familiar, reminds me of a coworker years ago. Australian possums are so much cuter than American opossums.
Opposums are extremely gentle and mild mannered. They get the worst reputation and they do look scary, but they’re absolutely harmless. They aren’t rabies carriers, they aren’t aggressive - they eat ticks and are extremely chill.
Amazing stuff!
One of my besties has traveled and lived in both Australia and New Zealand, and the cheekiest bird she’s encountered is the kea.
When I was 8mos pregnant, this rather big male monkey just ambled in and came straight at me! Turns out, I’d left the balcony door open and he sauntered into the kitchen… I ran aside and just let him have his way… he just wanted the big mango I’d been saving for myself!!
He peeled it nicely and ate the fruit n left. That’s all he wanted… bless him. 🥰
I guess he enjoyed that mango wayyy more than I ever could. 😂
There was a squirrel that jumped off the power line to my huge pine tree in my backyard. It missed the branch and windmilled til it hit the ground with a loud thud. It jumped right back up and ran up the tree. Completely blew my mind because I was sure I just watched it die!
4:29
Possum be like....
You stinks take a bath...🤣
I saw a cocky at Kirrawee railway station with a variation on the wheelie bin trick.There were open top, barrel-shaped bins on the platform. The bins had recently been emptied, so the food at the bottom of the bin was out of reach.
No worries if youre a cocky. Just pull up the plastic bin liner with your beak, grasp that bit with your foot, repeat, repeat... until the bottom of the bag reaches the top lip of the bin. Thats how you get the food when your smarter than every one else with feathers.
I love crows AND Ann!!😅
4:38 they are also great at clearing out ticks.