O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai - Animated Short Film 2022

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  • O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai is an environmental film about human-caused extinction featuring a bird known as the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, which was once endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.
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    My 2022 senior thesis film created at Lesley University.
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    Special thanks to...
    Vincent Fasano (Music)
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    Nils Randers-Pehrson (Sound Design)
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    Carolyn Doremus (Extinct Species Illustrations & Clean-Up)
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    Owen Flores (Animation Clean-Up)
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    Emma Mercier (Animation Clean-Up)
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    Eman Umaiya (Animation Clean-Up)
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  • @SavoxYT
    @SavoxYT ปีที่แล้ว +8354

    "That's the last male of the species, singing for a female who will never come. He's totally alone. And now, his voice is gone."

  • @stephbalidio141
    @stephbalidio141 ปีที่แล้ว +4630

    Singing for a female who doesn't respond and literally alone really breaks my heart.

    • @tracy9610
      @tracy9610 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Oh, god. I hadn’t thought of it that way. Now I’m crying again.

    • @felixgutierrez993
      @felixgutierrez993 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Worst when your the last of your species and you don't know it yet. And pass alone... and now you can't hear that beautiful singing no more... that existential dread seeing in both sides the bird and ours is haunting.

    • @soulless5645
      @soulless5645 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Just like being the last human in the world...😭

    • @UtahBoot
      @UtahBoot ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Singing for the females who dont exist anymore.

    • @yohanceflores3101
      @yohanceflores3101 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Its true. But sad because now I’m in tears. It feels lonely, cruel, and sad because no other female is there which won’t return. This truly hurts and breaks my heart.

  • @lyria261
    @lyria261 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2299

    The saddest part about hearing this bird's song is that it's supposed to be a duet. There are pauses in the song where a female is supposed to respond. This bird is singing half a song, waiting for someone to complete it but there was no one left who could :(

    • @revih3390
      @revih3390 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      .

    • @dapizzasnake8462
      @dapizzasnake8462 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      This just made this even more depressing.

    • @mr.cyuree
      @mr.cyuree 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      *cries*

    • @Nokie_Cookie3
      @Nokie_Cookie3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      This makes me even sadder

    • @lolsaidthescorpionlmao
      @lolsaidthescorpionlmao 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      On top of that they only had one partner for life.

  • @__seeker__
    @__seeker__ ปีที่แล้ว +596

    As a former Kauai resident, I always used to imagine the now extinct flora and fauna that used to thrive on the island when I was out in nature. The Hawaiian islands are incredible _now_ but 1,000 years ago they must’ve been absolutely mind boggling.

    • @SupaL33tKillar
      @SupaL33tKillar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The fires in Hawaii was an act of God to punish the humans on those lands for their natural sins. No surprise and people shouldn't donate money to support the active destruction of the remaining flora and fauna with these so called "rebuilding" plans. Just take the hint and fucking leave.

    • @Someone_that_is_very_tired
      @Someone_that_is_very_tired 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Great arms bro

    • @Stopmotioncountry
      @Stopmotioncountry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah teaming with life

    • @acidexpierence
      @acidexpierence หลายเดือนก่อน

      Humans are are cause of everything and let's hope these islands can hang on for a bit longer, because it's happening now with many other species.

  • @channelredacted6150
    @channelredacted6150 ปีที่แล้ว +4031

    Such a beautiful bird. Its haunting song did not deserve to be silenced for lifetimes to come.

    • @jackadams3878
      @jackadams3878 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      /r/HFY

    • @annurdarus3287
      @annurdarus3287 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The bird think its a doomsday for its life...

    • @biancagrottolo
      @biancagrottolo ปีที่แล้ว +49

      That poor little bird. Extinction is so terrible. I feel awful for all these animals. They were lost to mankind's over because of the Destruction. we have caused.

    • @johnhaye1822
      @johnhaye1822 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lifetimes? It's for eternity.

    • @pixolotlroblox
      @pixolotlroblox ปีที่แล้ว

      No

  • @nopulau8628
    @nopulau8628 ปีที่แล้ว +2650

    Such a beautiful voice that won’t ever be sung again in nature.

    • @spiralsky
      @spiralsky ปีที่แล้ว +40

      exactly its so sad :(

    • @wowalamoiz9489
      @wowalamoiz9489 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Just play the recording in front of a tree full of lyre birds

    • @Cy10280
      @Cy10280 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@wowalamoiz9489 THIS MANS A GENIUS

    • @spiralsky
      @spiralsky ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@wowalamoiz9489 seriously

    • @jahanarabegum9401
      @jahanarabegum9401 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@wowalamoiz9489 🤯🤯🤯

  • @notevenonce2171
    @notevenonce2171 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    I wrote an 8 page essay and a 15 minute speech about this bird for my Environmental Science class this semester, spent 2 whole months researching the Kaua’i ō’ō’, I gave the speech earlier today and it got my professor and a good chunk of the class crying. Once I got home I finally decided to check this video out and I cried my fucking eyes out.
    Millions of years of this beautiful creature existing alongside us and it only left 35 years ago. Something I still can’t believe. Just shows how much we have to cherish the animals that live alongside us.

    • @Caysen52TheSecond
      @Caysen52TheSecond 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      500+ years of each specie dying just for 36 years ago to be the last one of the genus they were apart of..

    • @techtalk7018
      @techtalk7018 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Earth's mass extinction events are no joke and coinside with spikes in co2 levels. We are living in the biggest spike in history. Go figure. We destroyed any possibilities of life moving forward. Good luck fixing mars cause u definitely dropped the ball with your own planet

    • @hawktalon7890
      @hawktalon7890 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah I'd start crying too, damn. Good paper topic though.

  • @CosmicTherian
    @CosmicTherian 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    “Hello? Anyone? I don’t want to be alone…”
    The Kauai O’o was an amazing bird, with a haunting yet beautiful call, and a terrible fate. Hopefully all those birds can sing their songs in heaven, where we can’t hurt them any more. There isn’t even much of a chance to revive them, as the Kauai O’o was the last of its family Mohoidae, meaning there are no close relatives at all to the Kuaui O’o. They are all gone. Mosquito and rat borne disease killed their populations, forcing them into the mountains. Human deforestation cause them to lose their homes. And from our mistakes, the Kauai O’os have joined the list of 900+ species that have been declared extinct. Never again will the world hear the wondrous song of the Kauai O’o, and we have lost so much for it. Let this terrible loss be a lesson, that you cannot replace what isn’t there, that extinction is a permanent; a fate no creature should be forced to. The Kauai O’o’s call is a duet, with pauses where another bird should respond. But now, it’s a song sung to a lost kind. A song that will never be whole again.

  • @zaea1082
    @zaea1082 ปีที่แล้ว +1778

    The last part was heartbreaking, singing trying to survive, and finally flying against the world (the one dominated by man), trying to "escape" the list of extinct species, to finally lose the battle and get caught by this "new world", disappearing in the flow of time... forever.

    • @tikimillie
      @tikimillie ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Hopefully one day we can clone them, my belief that we should bring species we’ve personally caused the extinction of directly or indirectly back from the dead.

    • @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416
      @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@tikimillie It's not possible but possible to do it 😅

    • @Rottensparrow
      @Rottensparrow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you have cats you shouldn't speak

    • @teriake4180
      @teriake4180 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 lets ask tht one tiktok dude 😂😂😂

    • @samanthacallaway2276
      @samanthacallaway2276 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@tikimilliethe problem is the environment they once flourished in is gone though….it’s now full of species it was never evolved to interact with that we brought there.

  • @theotheseaeagle
    @theotheseaeagle ปีที่แล้ว +1464

    It’s weird to think that kauai birds only really went extinct due to the introduction of mosquitos and rats. The mosquitos carried diseases which quickly killed of much of the population, forcing them higher and higher up the mountains (this is still a huge problem with extant Hawaiian species, they are forced further up the mountains each year where the mosquitos can’t survive, but warming of the climate is allowing the mosquitos further up the mountain). It just shows how dangerous mosquitos can be, to humans and to many other animals

    • @ZealousWins
      @ZealousWins ปีที่แล้ว +69

      And yet, in some parts of the world they are unfortunately essential to the food chain...
      Edit: "they" = mosquitos

    • @singsonggirl9267
      @singsonggirl9267 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      You mean how dangerous MAN can be, introducing non-native species that can cause the extinction of so many birds.

    • @theotheseaeagle
      @theotheseaeagle ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ZealousWinsfortunately in Hawaii they are starting to release genetically modified mosquitos which only produce infertile offspring, so these mosquitos will breed and overtime sterilise the entire mosquito population. It’s fortunately not too late to rid mosquitos of Hawaii for good

    • @teriake4180
      @teriake4180 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@singsonggirl9267 stop blaming us, other birds n species dont know how tohandle hunger so they just hunt to eat n survive n mosquitos bite for their reproduction but they dont know they carry disease in hawaii

    • @nope1904
      @nope1904 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

      ​@@teriake4180 we are the reason these happened stop trying to defend humans

  • @carenxatu5962
    @carenxatu5962 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    frick... just had to have a "reflection confused for another bird" scene didn't they?! this film was really really well done. left me bawling, so good job.

  • @fusix92
    @fusix92 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Depressing facts about the last years of this species:
    -The last female and male pair of birds in this species were found and kept preserved on an island. However, two typhoons ravaged the island later on, killing the female.
    -The last recording of the male’s mating call was in 1987.
    -After the recording finished, the guy who recorded it replayed it after the male flew off to listen to it. Apparently, the male then flew back, thinking that the recording of his own call was a female.
    -When that last male died we not only lost this species, we lost an entire family of birds. This species was the last of its family of birds, meaning it couldnt even find any mates that looked even remotely like it, it was a mere remnant of its kind.

  • @emawerna
    @emawerna ปีที่แล้ว +889

    The last Kawaii o'o was the last of a species that was also the last of its taxonomic family Mohoidae, a grouping of species that split off 15-20 million years ago from their nearest living relatives. For instance, all Swallows and Martins make up one family that is about 22 million years old. Crows, Ravens, and Jays also make up one family that is about 17 million years old. The loss of biodiversity from the death of this o'o bird was greater than if all crows went extinct and if we were only left with blue jays in their stead.

    • @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416
      @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The thing is we need to achieve balance in every species 😢

    • @Peppermynt.
      @Peppermynt. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was the kawaii thing mocking or just autocorrect or misspelling
      i assume one of the first two

    • @RubyChocoCookie
      @RubyChocoCookie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@Peppermynt. Pretty sure this was autocorrect If i am not wrong. It's very annoying.

    • @zephyrr108
      @zephyrr108 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How did you measure the value of his species against all the crows and ravens? Curious about your weird math.

    • @DausBugaboo
      @DausBugaboo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@zephyrr108I'm assuming in terms of impact on their respective taxonomical family, in which crows and ravens make up a portion of their Corvidae family whereas the kauai o'o were the last of the Mohoidae family, subsequently ending the family as a result of the extinction of the species. If Crows and ravens were to disappear, corvidae would still exist through magpies, jays, etc.

  • @peachsoylatte
    @peachsoylatte ปีที่แล้ว +599

    I’m crying so hard, the animation is wonderful and also the message and everything about it is so important.

    • @melissaluckey2309
      @melissaluckey2309 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I thought I was silly crying while watching this but now I know I'm not alone. I became so overwhelmed with guilt and remorse. What a beautiful sound gone forever 💔

  • @shreyanhistory
    @shreyanhistory 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    RIP Kauai O’o, you will forever be remembered

  • @TheHirohikoAraki
    @TheHirohikoAraki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    I genuinely believe that Charles Darwin would mourn this bird loss upon its death.

  • @JJRol.
    @JJRol. ปีที่แล้ว +718

    Beautiful animation, it shows how all that humans brought to Kaua'i was pestilence, death and destruction. I hope that people will realize how many amazing animals we are killing and start to care for this beautiful Earth.

    • @itsmedre141
      @itsmedre141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not all humans it was the colonisers that brought destruction to alot of our native species the birds where thriving when it was only the native people here!

    • @wowalamoiz9489
      @wowalamoiz9489 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      When will people realize that people are the only ones that care about the ecosystem?

    • @namelessechos5380
      @namelessechos5380 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I think something this comment may be overlooking us the indigenous people who were already there, and coexisted with the wildlife long before the colonizers came

    • @mr.x2567
      @mr.x2567 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@namelessechos5380So just the white humans are monsters. Sounds about right.

    • @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416
      @satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ​@@namelessechos5380 Sadly the population of native tribes were also killed. For example, The Red Indians which were the natives of North America were killed 90% of their entire population by Britishers, French. Maori tribes in New Zealand were also killed brutally. There are many examples which we have records and do not have their records.

  • @emmanuelmorales1443
    @emmanuelmorales1443 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    My brain translates its little chant to “please I don’t want to die alone” 😢

    • @jahanarabegum9401
      @jahanarabegum9401 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      😰😢

    • @_Watermelon__cat
      @_Watermelon__cat ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Mine is: Everyone? I don't want to be alone. I need a mate..

    • @reyveronasworld
      @reyveronasworld ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My brain translates it as “my love, where are you? I miss you.” Calling for a mate that would never respond 😭

    • @johnnypickle2253
      @johnnypickle2253 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mine translates as: HELL YEAH, YOU'RE ALL GOING DOWN WITH ME.

    • @scoper7897
      @scoper7897 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mine is: Hello? The AD promised hot singles in 5 miles radius! Where they at?

  • @The.universe
    @The.universe หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    So sad 💔 just imagine being alone and nobody else with you and you start yelling and yelling and nobody responds because you are the only one left 💔💔

  • @maple-1224
    @maple-1224 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    3:10
    The way he was fighting for his life and the fossils are in heaven watching him 😢

  • @sandramorey2529
    @sandramorey2529 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    This was beautifully made. Mahalo. One of our Bay Area Hula Teachers wrote an Oli(chant) for the anniversary of the overturning of the Hawaiian kingdom using the manu O'o as the center of it..
    Rayleen Lancaster wrote "Au Hea Wale Ana 'Oe" Where are you? The O'o is looking for a mate. Back then, the scientists had recorded the O'o's song and played it. The last bird came to find where the call was coming from. He came each year for a few years and after that never came again. Kumu Rayleen said that we are now the only voice for the manu O'o and we must speak for him.
    Her Oli was gorgeous and her halau danced it. Not a dry eye in the auditorium in Oakland. The O'o was a large bird with yellow feathers under it's wings and legs. These feathers were plucked w/o hurting the bird and it was released to regrow its yellow feathers. Only royalty was presented with hats and capes with the precious yellow feathers in them. Ma Poina, manu O'o.

    • @Aurabora54321
      @Aurabora54321 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If only Rayleen was presented here, again, with her authentic song and tribute. Could you do that? Was it presented in Oakland, Ca?

    • @sammicoporsammicopor
      @sammicoporsammicopor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stay in California where you belong so you don't spread your disease elsewhere.

    • @TheStepmonkey
      @TheStepmonkey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So sad 😭😭

  • @Foxvibes942
    @Foxvibes942 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    I really want scientists to bring them back! 🥺😭🥺

    • @worldprops333
      @worldprops333 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      this bird was not the last of its species, not its genus, but its entire family. there are no relative birds to use to bring this one back.

    • @Foxvibes942
      @Foxvibes942 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@worldprops333 Its Unfortunate

    • @saratoga4126
      @saratoga4126 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Even if we can problem is it's not gonna be the same as the original bird since "reviving" the bird requires genes from it's relatives it doesn't mean that the offspring is exactly as the original O'o it'll just be a crossbreed of a bird from said genes

    • @worldprops333
      @worldprops333 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@saratoga4126 One small issue
      the relatives no longer exist
      so even if we could get that similar bird with the relatives
      that bird was the last of _them._

    • @Vividreamm
      @Vividreamm ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@worldprops333 they have a very well preserved DNA sample of it so they can find a similar bird and use the DNA on one of its eggs

  • @CraxiPostazione
    @CraxiPostazione ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Imagine being an Alien and hearing the last human on the earth screaming "wanna bang?"

    • @salvini2809
      @salvini2809 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      this made me laugh even if I shouldn't

    • @YataTheFifteenth
      @YataTheFifteenth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "I was promised hot singles in my area!"

    • @gawne87
      @gawne87 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@YataTheFifteenth kinky O’o is 4 miles away

  • @cosmickitteh
    @cosmickitteh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It was the last surviving member of the Mohoidae, which had originated over 15-20 million years previously during the Miocene, with the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō's extinction marking the only extinction of an entire avian family in modern times

  • @yarrer22
    @yarrer22 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    A hauntingly true recording, reimagined and retold. Animation has the power to tell a story to the world, the medium to translate the hardships of others into human language and expression, and the magic to move us.

  • @demonhunter4236
    @demonhunter4236 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Its incredible how a sweet lovely voice can be so hauntingly sad. Hearing it normaly with more bird sounds and responding calls it sounds so sweet and happy but hearing it alone in complete silence is heartbreaking.
    You know he is singing alone, being the last one, when he dies the sound dies with him forever.
    Listening it while you know this, is an otherwordly haunting experience... He has no one to sing to, and maybe he feels it, maybe he doesnt but he is still singing.. He doesnt want to give up...
    Im just writing but i still cannot describe what im feeling. The complete emptiness, anxiety and hopelessness in the singing is like a sad piano solo written from heart. You know this is not a happy or normal call. You can hear it.

  • @haddithegamer3368
    @haddithegamer3368 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    this wanna make me cry because it was my favorite bird and always be😭

  • @nmrizzmira904
    @nmrizzmira904 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    REST IN PEACE THE LAST KAUAI I WISH YOU LIVE INTO THE BETTER WORLD FIND YOUR SOULMATE IN THERE ARRIVE INTO HEAVEN THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL LOUD MELODY HOOMANS HEARING IT OUT WENT WELL I LOVE YOU THE LAST KAUAI !! 😓💕🌹🌱🙏✨

  • @nopve
    @nopve ปีที่แล้ว +732

    This is terrifying yet so beautiful, it's terrible how this is reality. The O'o calls going to only himself and thinking he's not alone.
    Great Job humans.
    Guys chill in the reply section
    Wait why are people still replying to this comment its like so old

    • @th30ddm4n5
      @th30ddm4n5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thanks

    • @migueljacinto3957
      @migueljacinto3957 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks

    • @zamiad
      @zamiad ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Don’t listen to these fools above, always look towards the greater things about life

    • @jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847
      @jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Progress requires sacrifices. Probably.

    • @lordgreed1
      @lordgreed1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You welcome biash

  • @ImThylacine
    @ImThylacine ปีที่แล้ว +404

    This might just be my favorite animated short film of the year. The way the threats to endemic island species that people bring, from mosquito-borne disease to rats and cats that hunt small species to habitat destruction for development are conveyed so efficiently and evocatively through the animation is BRILLIANT! This is exactly what we need to have more depictions of in media to convince people to protect our ecosystems.
    The sound design and music are incredible; the film would not be half as effective without them, and the storytelling is clear, concise, and heart-breaking. My favorite creative choice is the build-up to the final death by flashing portraits of iconic extinct species over the years at an increasingly rapid pace (although I might be a bit biased on that front because it's got a thylacine in it, haha).
    By the way, I went back and watched all your other uploads and GOODNESS you've improved so much! I love your art style; the characters are expressive and yet realistic at the same time, and the backgrounds convey the richness of nature while not feeling overly detailed or impossible to animate. You've gotten much better at keeping animated forms consistent within shots, and also your ability to craft stories through visuals and voice-over has come a long way since Isolation. (The dialogue is a TAD on-the-nose in that one 0_0, although I appreciate the message.)
    In any case, I can't give this film enough praise, and you've earned my subscription!

  • @darakim1014
    @darakim1014 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This made me cry so hard, and btw This is one of the best animation I ever seen keep up the good work!:D

  • @pinawita
    @pinawita ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this bird always makes me cry and it's now an animation :'( extinction is the worst
    I love this piece so much

  • @galaxydeathskrill5607
    @galaxydeathskrill5607 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    I said I won't cry. I did
    On 2:14 I just broke down, and on the montage on 3:09 - 3:21 made me sob uncontrollably. I'm just in question how many more will we lose, especially endemic species.. Beautiful video, thank you for making it

    • @krystofkarda7395
      @krystofkarda7395 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      3:22 there Is a picture of him

    • @zumiixlahh
      @zumiixlahh ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@krystofkarda7395 it's Hawaii o'o

    • @krystofkarda7395
      @krystofkarda7395 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zumiixlahh i know that it Is the bird of the animation but thanks fór informating me

    • @RaeuberFotzenRotz
      @RaeuberFotzenRotz ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao imagine being so emotionally unstable

    • @usuallyangry
      @usuallyangry ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@RaeuberFotzenRotz It's called having empathy, my dear boy.

  • @dolmagurung4730
    @dolmagurung4730 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Those who want them back
    👇

    • @Man-kx5bz
      @Man-kx5bz 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I hope scientists will bring them back.

  • @chadgorosaurus4898
    @chadgorosaurus4898 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Cant believe we lost an entire group of birds like this. The Kaua'i O'o was the last O'o.

  • @i.rhacyeva2227
    @i.rhacyeva2227 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I wasn't expecting to cry this much when I clicked on the video. Well done, truly.

  • @hamishstewart5324
    @hamishstewart5324 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I always cry whenever I hear his last song.

  • @simiranjith3592
    @simiranjith3592 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    😞😞 why are we destroying our home our fellow beings ourselves.... Such a wonderful creation 💙💙.

    • @I_Hate_YouTube.
      @I_Hate_YouTube. ปีที่แล้ว +7

      'Cause coroporate greed. All intelligent creatures value something they own. We just happen to be more intelligent than evryone else.
      People are too occupied with their money to worry about some bird they probably never heard of.

    • @theNCfanfromWestLothian
      @theNCfanfromWestLothian ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We are does boiler beautiful lovely and glorious world just for a British pound I'm actually breaking down crying because realistically we should not be doing this to a lovely world

    • @I_Hate_YouTube.
      @I_Hate_YouTube. ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@theNCfanfromWestLothian what is more important to a buisness owner: a bird or money?

    • @theNCfanfromWestLothian
      @theNCfanfromWestLothian ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@I_Hate_TH-cam. money but what's to are a company the environment or money

    • @I_Hate_YouTube.
      @I_Hate_YouTube. ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theNCfanfromWestLothian still money. Being invoromentaly friendly is not profitable. That's the whole reason why we don't do anything about the climate change problem.

  • @Awakeningspirit20
    @Awakeningspirit20 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Outside of the themes and powerful message, I just want to say that this is seriously Disney-grade animation, whoever made this is BEYOND talented!

  • @forreal79
    @forreal79 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am speechless. If only every human in the world would see this video......
    .....

  • @AerCloud
    @AerCloud ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I'm crying. I wish so desperately I could have seen these beautiful birds for myself

  • @RonaldoAlves3897
    @RonaldoAlves3897 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    O canto do Kauai o'o estará sempre em nossas memórias... 😔

    • @renanhayashi6820
      @renanhayashi6820 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Referência De Feather Family

    • @KingDrakoTyrell
      @KingDrakoTyrell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@renanhayashi6820 no it’s not.

  • @darmakusuma891
    @darmakusuma891 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I never knew a beautiful singing from a beautiful bird can be this haunting. 😢

  • @CRAFTMUSICBR
    @CRAFTMUSICBR 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    EXTINCT BIRD 😭😭😭 HUMAN IS MONSTER

  • @FaroukBadriAlBaehaki2010
    @FaroukBadriAlBaehaki2010 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I just can't.... I'm cryiinggg 😭😭😭

  • @YunnabarKK
    @YunnabarKK ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Goodness... I never really cry by watching short films but this... This made me tear down compleatly...
    I became a bird lover like 2 years ago and i have been investigating alot about these creatures ever since
    And the fact that i wasn't even alive at the time the Kauai o'o got extinct, i felt very but very bad for the bird, not only that but i never got to witness such a melancolic yet beautiful call...
    Still, This is very well made and the emotions drawn really broke me, you have an amazing talent!

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is how I feel about Wood Thrushes and bluebirds. It seems like all the most beautiful birds are at some kind of risk. I want to finish painting my birdhouse now and get more. We can do our part to save our favorite species!

  • @kirusanth
    @kirusanth 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The world looks beautiful while I hear this bird's music.

  • @GamingTurtleDude
    @GamingTurtleDude 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Now THIS is something scientists should try and bring back, not dinosaurs

    • @Blue_B-420
      @Blue_B-420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree

    • @Goofyahhpaleofan
      @Goofyahhpaleofan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Kauai o’o is actually a dinosaur (:

    • @GamingTurtleDude
      @GamingTurtleDude 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Goofyahhpaleofan no?

    • @Blue_B-420
      @Blue_B-420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@GamingTurtleDude birds are dinosaurs, take a look at their family tree or, say it to a scientist

    • @GamingTurtleDude
      @GamingTurtleDude 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Blue_B-420 i kinda misunderstood you there, sorry, but the Kauai O’o is not a dinosaur, though its ancestors were

  • @Spiritualfamilyreunion
    @Spiritualfamilyreunion ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I have never known or seen anything sadder than this. Please let us all be a voice for trees, habitat, and native animals protection, in this country and across the world.

  • @leucamaclean8900
    @leucamaclean8900 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I don’t know you but I ended up here. This was super sweet, reminds me of the pictures of the poor last thylacine sitting in its cage

  • @marybennett100
    @marybennett100 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    To think of all the magnificent creatures which have been lost on every continent and island on earth, is beyond heartbreaking. And knowing that the losses are continuing at an escalating rate, is indescribably tragic!

  • @HennyTheRooster
    @HennyTheRooster 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OMG I almost cried!! Such a touching story of an Oo trying to find his lost love. Sadly he will never find her.

  • @woosiewchoo5536
    @woosiewchoo5536 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I literally cried just watching this
    I hope the scientist can rediscover it

    • @Beretta_911
      @Beretta_911 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You do realize even if they do it won't be an actual kauai it will be an artificial clone of it only a shadow of the real thing

    • @aniboo8668
      @aniboo8668 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Beretta_911 jeez stop demotivating everyone

    • @Beretta_911
      @Beretta_911 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aniboo8668 well would you rather be living a lie or know the truth?

    • @veinfish
      @veinfish 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aniboo8668demotivating how? It’s the truth, there is no bringing this bird back.

  • @BananaClaw
    @BananaClaw ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweating.

  • @hannabarberalionwolfgirl8706
    @hannabarberalionwolfgirl8706 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That poor Kaui o'o never had a mate which it kept calling for her, which she will never come is so sad. He was so cute in the full animation.

  • @dinothebetatt6733
    @dinothebetatt6733 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine being the last one of your kind. And still out of instinct, you go searching for your comrades. But little do you know, you'll never find them.

  • @teasy1944
    @teasy1944 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Thank you for creating this beautiful film. As a remembrance of the beautiful Kauaʻi ʻōʻō,

  • @musicalfreak1212
    @musicalfreak1212 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This is the most heart-shattering video I’ve ever watched.

  • @shahnazparvin5055
    @shahnazparvin5055 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I feel so bad for the last precious bird who's alive. Such a beautiful bird.

  • @randomuser3476
    @randomuser3476 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Now this is the very definition of an unfinished symphony

  • @sarminder4357
    @sarminder4357 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    You did an amazing animation. I started crying when it was losing hope of finding a partner
    Good luck with your studies

  • @shudawb
    @shudawb ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Wow... This was very sad and I almost cried, I got sad when all the extinct animals started flashing up... Life does really flash before your eyes... A moment of silence...
    Ok that's good, I would like to talk about how well the bird poses/stances are, as in 2:07, the flapping and feet position is awesome and 3:04 be looking like an anime intro and I love the way the wings fold and leg position, very good art style too

  • @Xaurii
    @Xaurii ปีที่แล้ว +58

    This was beautiful
    It genuinely made me sad, I hate how humans ruin beautiful ecosystems

    • @KingDrakoTyrell
      @KingDrakoTyrell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      What’s even sadder is that there were already humans living on the island coexisting with the animals until the colonizers purged the wildlife and the Hawaiians. I’m proud to be one,

  • @DXXPAK77
    @DXXPAK77 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just imagine,Being the last one of species 🫥

  • @Alienboi2005vidsandstuff
    @Alienboi2005vidsandstuff ปีที่แล้ว +12

    3:09 After reading the description, now I want humanity to be on this list with the extinct species.

    • @battleship_lover
      @battleship_lover ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Asteroids:

    • @usuallyangry
      @usuallyangry ปีที่แล้ว

      If aliens would come down and start destroying our habitats the way we did the extinct animals', well...I would be so happy to see corporate CEOs die to pollution before I went myself.

  • @Sobiaa_
    @Sobiaa_ ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I think this animation deserves more views its really really meaningful and sad at the same time.

  • @katsuo3228
    @katsuo3228 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    After Jim Jacobi recorded the final half of this bird's song, he played it back to hear what he'd gotten. To his surprise, the bird flew back to the sound of his own voice. At that point, the bird probably wasn't looking for a female to mate. He probably was just looking for a familiar face and voice.

    • @SweetTooth1102
      @SweetTooth1102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's so heartbreaking :[

  • @marcuscarana9240
    @marcuscarana9240 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    After the storm, the lone male bird wakes up. The storm has passed and the sun shone brightly. Looking towards the horizon, he sees a flock of birds headed towards him. Their wings and feathers of a familiar color. It's them. The Kauai. They've returned. He is greeted by all the other Kauai as they sing together. He finally found them. After years of searching, he finally finds ALL of them. His heart is overwhelmed with joy and relief knowing he will never be alone anymore.
    Back on Earth, a team of scientists recovers his lifeless body, preserving it and setting it among the other preserved Kauai and declaring his kind as extinct.

    • @faby_baby
      @faby_baby 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you will find them in heaven if you accept Jesus

    • @marcuscarana9240
      @marcuscarana9240 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@faby_baby Amen.

    • @firemangan
      @firemangan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Damn… you actually got me at first. Makes it even more upsetting that the body of the last individual was never recovered.

    • @FreemanicParacusia
      @FreemanicParacusia 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😭
      This is why people want to believe this stuff… but it’s a crutch, and all too often serves as an excuse for passivity. I don’t have to look hard to find video of pastors waving off climate change as inconsequential because after two millennia the rapture’s coming any day now…
      We did this. We are still doing this, around the world, to this day. And it won’t stop unless *we* stop it.

  • @ithinkso6924
    @ithinkso6924 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Yo ! I'm glad that I found this channel, I was searching something more from animations about Kauaʻi ʻōʻō and found this video and "Vanished Voices: a farewell to the O'o". Gonna say it's very beautiful and I cried (again). It's sad that I didn't have even a chance to see them because they all were extinct years after I was born :(
    Also I'm really shocked that you guys don't have much subs because the animation and basically everything in this video were great 🖤💛

  • @tracy9610
    @tracy9610 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I’ve collected myself now, but I had a Serious cry. I’m at a loss for words. I was going to say something about birds and islands and the work New Zealand is doing to create predator-free habitats for their native bird species but a shroud has fallen over my mind. This saddens and angers me. We can do better.
    Thank you for the short film.

  • @mvortex701
    @mvortex701 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is incredible brilliant as much as it is so sad, amazing work!!! Thanks for sharing it 🙏

  • @DeathRaw_-666
    @DeathRaw_-666 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is really sad,well rest in peace little one,heaven is waiting for you and even you're friend's..What a cruel world you're in..May this bird rest in peace..

  • @shreyathite1070
    @shreyathite1070 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thank you so much especially to the creators of this video. For explaining the repercussions of humans lifestyle in such a nuanced way!

  • @asmaasghar
    @asmaasghar ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I feel so bad for the bird especially the reflection part i hope to see this bird in heaven

  • @Untitled1549
    @Untitled1549 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    rest in peace.. i wish i could hear him sing again..

  • @trojanhorse6701
    @trojanhorse6701 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just cried, don't know why this bird's videos keep reminding me how inhumane we become.

  • @user-go8cs4db2w
    @user-go8cs4db2w ปีที่แล้ว +10

    الإنسان أكثر المخلوقات خطورة على الطبيعة...... مدمر لكل شيء فقط لارضاء مصالحه الشخصية 🍂🥀مع كل الأسف 🇮🇶

  • @hamzatahir4278
    @hamzatahir4278 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If Thanos wasn't fictional, i'd be okay with getting snapped out of existence.

  • @okamischolar922
    @okamischolar922 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We as a species, are truly the worst things to ever walk this planet... This bird may be gone along with the list of extinct animals, but think of it like this... How many more animals have went extinct because of us but we've not recorded it? They say things like griffins, dragons, unicorns, and other mythical creatures existed, and perhaps they have, but we will never know, only say they were mythical fantasy creatures rather than actual animals, because the only history we have of them is word of the mouth, and descriptions can be misconstrued orally. We will never know the full amount of damage and destruction we've truly wrecked on every other living thing on this planet, the majestic, mighty, beautiful, and maybe even terrifying lives we have crushed, silenced, and wiped out, snuffed out, all because of us. We are worse than even the most lethal of parasites. We are not animals. We are a disease infecting this planet.

  • @CAFTOG
    @CAFTOG 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is a masterpiece, It deserves way more views
    I've been crying for half an hour

  • @karlothegamer1131
    @karlothegamer1131 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    man i thought it had a good ending like go to heaven and see other Kauai O'os

  • @huskyartist2022
    @huskyartist2022 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I understand that it's saddening and thank you for showing this to all of us...

  • @stevecooper6076
    @stevecooper6076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The song doesn’t need to be silenced, play the recording for the lyrebird, it will mimic the song perfectly. Might not have the bird, but the song will remain to remind us of what we lost.

  • @pinkishhaven5158
    @pinkishhaven5158 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That sound gives so much sadness. It's on a with the picture of that last lion species, the one lone male walking on a snowy path, probably looking for it's kind.

  • @solveiglandvikbrg9103
    @solveiglandvikbrg9103 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Magnifique court métrage d'animation !
    Hélas malheureusement tellement TRISTE.
    BRAVO d'avoir aussi superbement décrit les influences néfastes des envahisseurs !
    Les hommes étrangers, leurs rats, leurs chats, leurs moustiques, destructeurs d'un si BEAU PARADIS TERRESTRE ! 🥺🥺🥺

  • @oscarlorenzo9364
    @oscarlorenzo9364 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This made me so think so much. Think so deep. In this world, we humans, are we born to save, preserve the planet and share this place for other living or are we born as monsters to kill them?

  • @Wolf_Dragon_011
    @Wolf_Dragon_011 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That makes me saad 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 this animation filled my eyes with tears 😭 What a nice singing kauai o'o,the nice singing bird that defeated kookoo
    😢😢😢

  • @silamuduli9753
    @silamuduli9753 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Literally it's amazing 🥺🥺🥺🥺

  • @sobekhotep
    @sobekhotep ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i already knew about the Kauai O'o, but this just made me pretty much sob.

  • @caipirinhageladinha3322
    @caipirinhageladinha3322 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Senhor não importa quantos anos se passe, eu sempre vou ficar assombrada e devastada com a história dessa linda ave que infelizmente se foi pra sempre...💔

  • @Worldinfohindi
    @Worldinfohindi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We have lost many sweet voices and beautiful birds😢😢

  • @guerrapatinobrauliomiguel4583
    @guerrapatinobrauliomiguel4583 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This definitely broke my heart tears came out and the part where I cried a lot was the death where portraits of extinct species were shown and the Kaua'i ōō will start crying and die this animation is beautiful and leaves a message too cute, I love you You won my subscription and my like.

  • @georginamahoney649
    @georginamahoney649 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don’t think I’ve ever been so sad, this hurts 😢💔

  • @Hylian.
    @Hylian. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've mastered tearbending ...

  • @govardhanb6019
    @govardhanb6019 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The male sing to attract female ones. The pauses in between were for the female Kauai to join in the duet. They mated for life.

  • @shivanipde
    @shivanipde ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So horribly sad - i know alot of species are extinct now but watching the entire depiction was so super sad.. his last moments must have been so lonely 🥺

  • @Tess_LikesDucks
    @Tess_LikesDucks ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That's so sad that something that looks and sounds so beautiful can die off so easily.

  • @sigalroman8547
    @sigalroman8547 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This so heartbreaking and beautiful. It really hurts and makes me wonder why humanity is so incredibly destructive..

  • @GeckoTech_Engineer
    @GeckoTech_Engineer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    they were too beautiful to die 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @randomwanderer3057
    @randomwanderer3057 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    us the humans don't deserve title of "Gods favorite creation" because we killing the earth 😔😔😔😔