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those birds are Kookaburras, laughing at you, never seen an american before

as an australian who just started working at a native nursery i am loving these videos omg

There are four species of mistletoe that only parasitize other mistletoes. They are fascinating

Rolling joints in the morning to CPBBD is the closest to nirvana I may ever achieve in this incarnation.

'it would be nice to be flagelated with them' I spit up my coffee

I appreciate your support of keeping wildlife safe from wandering cats. We have 3 within an enclosed back garden from which they can watch birds to their hearts content and live also in the house. We have multiple bird pairs that breed in our hedges in front and the fledglings are safe from our cats at least. And they're not shitting on people's gardens.

Kookaburra! Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree Merry merry king of the bush is he Laugh, Kookaburra Laugh, Kookaburra Gay your life must be! My ma taught me dat. Morning, Joey!

The juicy bastard department.. truly the finest department!

You ain't wrong, brother. It's very polarized. It's nice to sit and look at the plants. Keep botanizing.

That's why they call the Australian continent the land of fire. The ecosystem has adapted to actually coexist with fire. This is an amazing thing.

Kookaburra, the laugh is two (or more) of them, one goes koo-koo-koo-koo and the other ka-ka-ka-ka. I think, in breeding pairs, the precise synchronisation of the two voices signals the pair bond strength, it's territorial.

Oh my.... I've been watching your vids for a few months now and nearly fell out of bed last night when I saw you were in Lake Clifton, just 50km up the road!! You're awesome and I'm LOVING that you are showcasing this amazing part of Australia to the whole world. Are you coming/have you been to Manea Park in Bunbury? If not you really should, its orchid hunting season!!

I'm honestly so in love with this dude... its insane; I'm insane.

Nitomp, relative, gentle with our plant friends. Imagie scraping the scabs off a burn victim - the bark falls off when healing is complete. I was taught to handle plants gently because our touching does them no good and often harms where we don't see the effect immediately. Also, we transfer fungal and bacterial pests.

I kept hearing banksy and thinking about artwork being shredded hahaha

My husband and I are starting a drinking game for every time you say Asteracia(sp?) ! Be trashed in 5 minutes.

24:13. Dude you are seriously hilarious. Please continue to take us along for the ride. I love seeing things through your eyes. Seriously! Thanks

Glad to see you in my home country of Australia, I'm so proud of our intricate and delicate ecosystem and glad to see you cover it. Wonderful.

I knew about the invasive eradication effort, not 1080 though. Thanks, very interesting!

If you put on closed captions it says [laughter] at 23:39 when the Laughing Kookaburras are calling.

Thank you for pointing out the increasing problem with feral cats! Keep them inside!

What your smelling is most likely dead foxes or feral cats due to the 1080.

Joe Pesci having a 'you laffin at me'?! altercation with a Kookaburra. Mate I never thought I would see the day, HILARIOUS! 🙃

i love listening to this while drawing. it's so entertaining!

"Dune vegetation.... ?" That moment when you know the roos are thinking about it.

Mate. Come to the tropical rainforest city of Cairns, North Queensland! I'll be happy to show you some pristine rainforest ecology, from where rainforest meets coral reefs and sclerophyl forests thrive. I've been following your work for some months now. So exited your in Australia! COME TO CAIRNS AND ILL BUY YOU A BURRITO!!

23:37 the bird call there was a kookaburra

I'm absolutely loving all these down under guys, beautiful place

Stop at a used bookstore. See if they have copies of Rica Erickson's books on Western Australian orchids, or plants of prey or trigger plants. May Gibbs will introduce you to the big bad banksia men. Locals refer to the compound fruit of a banksia as a cob. Oh yeah, the stalks coming out of the Caladenia flava flowers are known as calli.

Was doing rips, and relate to the psychedelics comment. You are the prof but I want to call you Dean-These videos are gold: every 30 seconds is worth a shitload of research.

"You could really go down a dark hole with this ya know, if you were on psychedelics ". Wonder if May Gibbs was high when she wrote about the "big bad Banksia men...

We do have one species of large mammalian predator, dingoes. Australian wild dogs that came down from Asia about 5000 years ago. I'll look up the actual number. Few small marsupial carnivores, quolls, numbats, tassie devils; but nothing that will take down a roo.

I've got a few psychoactive acacia species I have been growing. Including maidenii, acuminata, jibberdingensis, confusa, and floribunda. If you ever see any over here I would love to see a video of them.

Love your work, Really enjoyed your take on the Aussie bush, especially the laughing Kookaburra. Luckily you didn't get attacked by any drop bears!

I’m always amazed how you are able to find these amazing flowers.

Hearing a Bronx (?) accent talking about hibbertias and banksias is weird but good.

Botanical Fantasy Island! loving it, thanks!

I'm a native of Western Australia south west and swan region and this vid is Sooooooo freakin good worth a sub straight out - glad to see someone appreciate our flora as much as i do. Only found you today while searching for info on Nuytsia floribunda, for our hobby farm , or as we call them Christmas trees ( or moodjar by the local Noongar people) - these Parasitic Bastids bloom like crazy within and around christmas ( we will decorate ours as a festive tree each year ) its a shame you didnt see it - and any one reading google dat sheet , absolutely amazing , the other tree indigenous to this and only this area i wish you could have seen in bloom is banksia menziesii , these two trees were freakin everywhere when i was a kid and miss seeing these little Bastids bloom Again sooooo frekin good

It feels to me that he gets a little excited when he comes to aus. I love hearing his take on the flora and fauna.

that 1080 shit is genius

"All the mammals here pretty much have immunity to it" Most in WA where the study area was over a section of bush high in the compounds, more broadly it affects a lot of stuff. p.s. When they say "Wild Dogs" they mean "Dingo, which occasionally might eat a Sheep while improving the entire habitat"

The Tasmanian Tiger was a marsupial as well. All the larger mammals native to Australia are marsupials or monotremes, with only the bats or the rodents representing the placental mammals. At least till we 'civilized' it. Really good choice for a break - Australia.

Omg the name of this channel and video 😍😂😍

I went all heart-eyed at the terrestrial orchid bit. Good enough reason to visit the family I have there someday before I turn 30.

You found that drosera and I immediately thought "sundew!" My first book on carnivorous plants was Mycol Doyle's "Killer Plants which is probably the only reason I knew of them. Now I'm stuck on the wiki page for carnivorous plants in Australia and some of these drosera are beautifully wild looking.

The mosquitoes were after your caffeine rich blood probably

Banksia Grandis-leaf all leathery , Who likes to get slapped with that?

@crime pays but botany doesn't ive seen guava and refrigerator trees doing that same 360 bark regeneration when its all stripped off. its amazing. always reminded me of antler velvet growth.

What excellently strange and beautiful plants here!

27:27 one of those "fruits" you picked up there is the fruit of the kangaroo.

As an Australian, seeing this brings me joy but also sadness when reminded how much of this beautiful nature and wildlife we are losing due to the overwhelming bush fires that are devastating the country. Check it out online there’s plenty of news reports on RU-vid but most importantly check out ways to contribute a few dollars in donations to help out if you have some to spare to save some of this wonderful flora and fauna that we are all marvelling at here thanks to the brilliant Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t Pay channel.

Nice! Those Banksia are awesome! Thanks for sharing with us sir.

It's nice to see an interesting and exciting view of all the native species in the Australian continent.

Thank dog you make videos. I listen to them before I go to the stupid job that I hate and it’s the only thing that keeps me from going postal.

learns more about australian bush in 28 minutes than living here entire life ..yaya..gracias

Hope you make it to the Australian Alps for spring time Tony. You wont regret it.

I’m trying to get some banksia seed started right now but to no avail. Its gonna need some smoke pretreatment paper I think. This is a wonderful tour you’re giving here. It’s ripper flora alright. Oh, and no one has guns except the cops and the farmers!

“flagellated with em” Bwahahahahahaha!! Wicked funny!! Thanks for what ya do!! Much appreciation ✌🏼

A lot of bush burn trees were used to make boats and baskets and stuff because of its regeneration. They'd take off the top healthy layer and burn off the sore so it'd scab.

Ah... Mr Crimes. Welcome to the sunny southern hemisphere 💕🌞

Love your work. Slight correction about predators. We have quolls in some areas. They are attacked by foxes however.

Have been enjoying your content for some time now. Glad you made it to Australia. Hope you had a great time. Cheers 😁👍

Yep the kookaburra. They are fabulous and can be found all over Australia.

Those roos are puzzled as hell by your accent.

Do you know of anyone who does similar videos on succulents of South Africa / Madagascar / etc? I'm especially interested in seeing what Euphorbia looks like in situ outside the Americas. I really love your videos with partially buried cacti. It's so rare to see videos of commonly cultivated plants growing in the wild.

You're traveling now? Oh man, please go to Madagascar next.

UCSC Arboretum has a great collection of Australian plants.

Someone give him a copy of “Snugglepot and Cuddlepie” by May Gibbs!!!

'gah.. everything hurts to touch' haha i could watch your vids for hours man.. welcome to western australia! sticking around for long?

I know this video is kind of old now, but the trigger mechanisms on Stylidium sp. usually do reset after being triggered! Very cool and intersting genus, I love them

I'm learning so much from your videos. hope you're enjoying you trip while you're down here

hey think you for sharing with us on youtube .....

I fucking love that you've taken a trip to Australia. I might not have a very large background in botany but I'm extremely proud about the orchid and carnivorous plant diversity we have. Another great video my man

The Nutsyia Floribunda is known by local Indigenous Noongar peoples as 'moodjar' and considered extremely sacred and known as 'the tree of souls'- to white fellas its the Western Australian Christmas tree.

Man, you should do a cameo on gardening Australia or something

Wandering the bush, screaming at the birds, this is good stuff.

I see you got a Crocodile Dundee knife - nice !

No native "Eutherian" predators. I get you though, you teach me botany I teach you mammalogy.

I just never really thought about letting the cat out.

Oh man you need to look up Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. Specifically the villains in the stories - the Banksia Men. Also my favourite tale about Nuytsia is that Telstra was having problems with their lines once, they kept being cut. In the end they discovered it was a Nuytsia, it's roots had found the lines, figured it was a root to parasitise and grew a haustoria around it and cut the line.

Look at that basal rosette ahhhhhh

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. Merry merry king of the bush is he.

I love you so much! I needed a teacher like you back in high school.

might be your best episode, yet, but I'd better binge-watch the rest of your content, just to make sure >_>

You're in my part of the world! And at the best time of year too :)

Laugh Kookaburra laugh 😂 they are a snake and lizard eating bird, usually seen in pairs

The fire regeneration thing is probably evolution,, I mean our bush fire rating system goes from “low/moderate” then straight to “high” all the way to “extreme” and lastly “code red” lmao

God damn death lilies.. Beautiful Banksia Men :)

I've been thinking until late it'd be neat to see you pull apart Australian flora and fauna. Glad to see you're here - and what great timing to be here in spring. Hopefully the jakaranda flower before you leave. South west WA is a beautiful pocket of secluded evolution, segregated from the rest of the continent.

Awesome plants.

On the way to Bunbury I see, last remaining remnant old Tuart forest down there. They are spraying the pig's ear/Arum lily invasion there. I always stop under the old Tuarts there on my way to Busselton, and the Arums seem to get thinner every year, so seems like the spraying helps a bit. Also those obnoxious arsehole Kookaburras are east coast invasive, and like all things from the anus of Australia, can be dismissed with derision and disgust. The only good thing east side is the road back west. Sometimes people from WA move to the east side, this generally increases the intelligence levels both sides of the nullabor, and what the shit.

It's great this bloke knows his botanies and profanities ,great video

What's the chance of me getting to buy you a beer while down here/Perth fan meetup?

i love the special guest kookabura

One of these days if he's down there long enough he's gonna yell at the wrong magpie lol... should make for some good video though.

there is something relaxing about your voice, inflections and grammar - have you done any books on tape?

G’day from Alice Springs!

Damn everything from flower to leaf morphology of Australian plants is insane, everything is a puzzle of sorts. Make sure you’re dousing yourself in sunscreen the holes in the ozone don’t play down there !! Did the kangaroo take you up on your offer ??

when you coming over to the east coast, NSW?

The thylacines are some of my favorite animals