Did you notice how fair they are?? He takes one for him, the next one is always for his friend...awwww Soo damn cute :))) And he talks to his friend, he asks him each time if he wants it... Incredible! They have a high EQ and IQ!!
And see how the one who was being fed was finished, took off and flew to the other side of their friend and gave them their piece of meat... as if to say, "Hey, I'm full now, but my friend is still hungry so I'll move out of the way so he can have his fill."
Kookaburra are related to the Kingfisher but they don't eat or hunt fish. Kooka's eat meat - snakes, lizards, frogs and small mammals or beef steak as above.
Kookaburras are the largest of the kingfisher family they do this too fish but mainly to the lizards they eat so the lizards dont turn around and bite them I grew up around them and still here them occasionally not as much as i want too i love them animals
@uncletiggermclaren7592 That would explain why it's hitting the meat against the wood to kill/subdue it even tho it's already dead. 😅 Why does it appear to look slightly bigger tho?
The young of some birds do look bigger, I have never heard an explanation of what that is about. So I just went and looked at the Toronga park zoo website, they are quite informative. The short story is that was probably a female chick, and fat. Long story, it turns out that previous years young stay bonded to the parents for up to three years before moving away to nest for themselves. And consequently each year the two chicks the adults raise, one female and one male, will be being fed by up to 6 and sometimes 8 adult birds. And it also notes the females are larger, and grow faster, which they note is an actual physiological thing unrelated to the amount of food they eat. They say in fact that it is harder for the females to maintain their health because they are slightly less agile hunters, and have to work harder because of it. @@DonSanchez
And I found another site that explains why some chicks look bigger than their parents after they first develop the ability to fly. It says they are not ACTUALLY structurally bigger, but their feathers have not developed the adult shape and strength, so the juvenile bird merely looks bigger because its feathers are not held as closely to the skin. It noted they may retain slightly larger fat reserves, but that difference is too small to visually detect. Which accords with my personal observations. Seagull chicks have a duller, less marked plumage, and look plumper than the adults too, but the next molting season they are only detectable because their feathers look less worn.@@DonSanchez
The one that offers up his food is so sweet . They are beautiful wild birds !! We are so blessed to have them here ...I love hearing them around my place ..it sounds magical !
kookaburras eat mice, snakes, insects, small reptiles, and the young of other birds; they have also been known to take goldfish from garden ponds. thus this is probably a behavior used to kill its prey in the wild.
Wow,those cute little dinosaurs can really pack away a lot of grub! Good thing for us they're smaller than their ancestors now. Our Aussie friends are so lucky to have Kookas, Cockatoos, Magpies and Lories..and that they're so friendly!
When I was 10, back in 1960, we had moved to Sydney, and two kookaburras would come to the patio railing, just like in this video. Amazing. They came every morning. I fed them tiny raw meatballs. Such a wonderful memory to have in such an amazing country.
That's awesome, I lived in Perth for a year and hardly saw them there, they probably prefer the east coast since it's more tropical. I do that too almost every weekday with crows here at the harbor on an island in the north sea, they are far more shyer than Kookaburras (Considering humans have been mean af to them for centuries so it's no wonder they are skeptical of us), but man it really makes my day to feed them and give them some happiness. Everyone deserves to catch a break.
That’s soo cute they’re sharing! So adorable that it calls the other one .. look here I have another piece.. take it ..lol 😂 humans can learn from animal kindness ...
Most humans are kind. Enough of this trite messaging about animals being better than humans, it’s such a shallow self-deprecating way of going through life.
They also share feeding their offspring where all the aunts, uncles and grand parents help with the feeding of the young it is not unusual to see up to 15-20 birds living in extended families.
A lo mejor el de la izquierda es su retoño y claro el de la derecha su mamá y madres al fin dando de comer a su hijo,que bella escena llena de ternura como las madres saben hacer con sus hijos.......
It’s interesting how animals all have their own personalities, & are little spiritual beings, like the one kookaburra stole the other kookaburra’s food. This is how Karma is created even for animals. Some are nice, some not so nice. The bird on the right is actually giving food to the one on the left. So it’s a generous bird.
The younger one is so conscious of the elder that he always shares when he get an extra or large piece. Cute bond they share, something humans forget by age 5.
It always amazes me how we humans could learn a lot from animals and nature. Look at these two birds sharing their food and chatting away quite happily.
Its almost like people never talk and share. Dunno where yoh live mate but we do that here. And forget the human sharing its food with the kookaburras...
Sweet. Reminds me of an old NYC Girl Scout song - 'Kookabera sits on the old gum tree, eating all the gumdrops he can see, stop, koookabera stop, kookabera save some there for me' I didnt realize that Kookabera's are real birds
I have 2 sweet gum trees and named the spiky balls on the trees, cuckaburros. Did not know that there were birds called kookabera until last week on RU-vid. Learn something new everyday.
Wow I've never heard that version. Australians version: Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree, Merrily, Merrily king of the bush is he, laugh Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra how gay your like must be....
I can just imagine: sitting down to a cup of coffee or something someone farts really loud, and one of these guys starts laughing like it was a hilarious university frat house joke of some kind. That would be funny. 😂
hahaha, that s the same way my blackbird birdies always smack the dried mealworms i feed them against the metal windowsill! They think the food is still alive ... it s hilarious.
We were taught the Kookaburra Song even in America! I'm amazed I remember it after more than 40 years, but I do. Just the one verse, though. Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree-ee, Merry, merry King of the bush is he, Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra, Gay your life must be! Of course, that was back when gay still meant happy and joyful, its true denotation. Words didnt have a bunch of connotations attached to them back then. I used to be in my elementary school chorus and that was one of our favourite warm up songs to sing!☺
When I went to public school in the 1970's the song was written in our music study books: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree counting all the gumdrops he can see. Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra, save some gum for me."
James Heirumaru those birds are just the coolest!! I remember singing that song all the time when I was a kid. I didn't even know what they looked like, or how they sounded! Now that I think about it, seems America and Australia were connected a VERY long time.
James Heirumaru I wish I could just get one! But on the other hand, maybe not! Since they eat meat and all. I had a cockatiel for 29 years and he was my best little friend, very smart. And sometimes unbearably noisy! But I didn't really mind. After he died it was so QUIET!
+Robin Martz ... in the wild they eat mostly snakes which have a habit of biting back so they smack its head on a branch. They are also the largest Kingfisher.
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Wow, they are sharing food!!!! One is saving food for the other. I think one must be an adult and one a baby or young Kookaburra. I love Kookaburras but they are mean carnivores!!!!
Female kookaburras are actually bigger than males. The one on the left throughout most of the video, I am sure, is the female and the male was feeding the meat to her.
Bumper crop of frogs around us . Kookas love frogs. The extended family that claims us as their territory is about 17. Two of my neighbours have nest boxes on poles in their backyards to compensate for a big nesting tree coming down in a storm a year ago.