Why This Nocturnal Parrot Only Breeds When Summer is Hot

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The kākāpō is New Zealand's chunky, flightless parrot. They like eating fruit and making sounds like little tubas all night long.
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@MaximumTaco 3 года назад

An entire video about the kakapo that doesn't show the BBC clip with Stephen Fry where one gets busy on that guy's head. That is impressive restraint.

@zooker7938 3 года назад

Maybe it would get copyright if they did that.

@discephaloid 3 года назад

That particular kākāpō does make an appearance at 5:27 though.

@ndemers 3 года назад

Oh, I've seen that one. Mark Carwardine is his name, and -- I can't speak for him -- but I feel it would be an honour to be violated by a kakapo. Incidentally, I think it's *good* we have enough recent footage of these freaky parrots that we don't need to reuse 10+ years old footage. There are still far too few of them, but they're on the rebound

@erstwhilegrubstake 2 года назад

"You are being shagged by a rare parrot". It sounds like a Monty Python skit. :)

@Hoshimaru57 2 года назад

All the rest of the clips weren’t enough for you?😄

@hauntedmasc 3 года назад

"if humans can give a name for every member of your species, things are not going well for you." you mean, like.... humans? i mean, you're not wrong...

@yuvalne 3 года назад

I was going to comment that

@austinshoupe3003 3 года назад

Despite the constant fretting over the world ending, humanity has been doing consistently better over the long term. The only real issue facing us right now is the sudden increase in misinformation that came with Facebook's explosion of older members in 2014-2016.

@nathanmartyn2403 3 года назад

Yep hes very right

@ShadowMageAlpha 3 года назад

@@austinshoupe3003 And the encroaching effects of climate change. And the ever increasing gap between those at the top of the socio-economic pecking order and the bottom. And the ease of disease to spread through our globalized world. I could go on, but... I think y'all get it.

@austinshoupe3003 3 года назад

@@ShadowMageAlpha I'm sorry, but I don't think you are applying context. Medical science is at a point we're we likely would not have a repeat of the bubonic plague or spanish flu. Diseases can spread easily but Covid, as bad as it's been, does not touch either of those earlier instances. Vaccines are also preventing all sorts of awful diseases such as polio and the various poxes. Socio economic diversity is definitely on the down trend in developed nations, but among all nations the gap is closing. Also, our current state of socio split doesn't touch that of pre 1940s or the racial split pre 1990s. The climate issue is persisting largely due to our misinformation issue. Too many politicians continuing to be reelected because their supports don't believe we have influenced climate change. Those same people tend to not want to participate in global strategies that will reduce the emissions of developing nations. Overall, the world is getting better about emissions, just not quick enough. Fix the misinformation issue (which honestly means waiting until the boomers die off in significant numbers) and the climate issue becomes manageable. Same with repeats of covid. The disease was well maintained in much of the world. The US just sucked at it because the president declared it a hoax. Other nations that struggled were nations also struggling with similar surges of nationalist, science refuting movements. Things look bad over the 5 year trend. Long term were still trending up.

@laurachapple6795 3 года назад

A MAGNIFICENT CHONK.

@rougnashi 3 года назад

Aaah, yes. My favorite of the flightless dinosaurs. The one that answers the age old question: what if cat but birb?

@CannonZeroKiryu 3 года назад

Isn’t that just an owl?

@zoesdada8923 3 года назад

What?

@kengillespie7797 3 года назад

But the cats clearly don't appreciate the resemblance, vis a vis the cats eating them to the point of extinction.

@blacky_Ninja 3 года назад

Birb cats are owls. Kakapos are victorian gentleman birbs.

@tortadedisrespect 3 года назад

@@blacky_Ninja indeed

@adriannegentleman83 3 года назад

Being from New Zealand I don't think Kakapos are bizarre, just cute, and in need of protection. thank you for telling the world about them.

@exmachinz 2 года назад

Being from NZ you should know that Maori nouns are the same in singular and plural: a Kakapo, some Kakapo

@taniwha3706 2 года назад

@@exmachinz Not necessarily. Maybe your educational background is more vast than original commenter *shrugging* Mind you I hope they appreciate the truth you kindly shared. As the indigenous people of New Zealand do not have letter "S" *fistbump* May you both lead a life y'all enjoy bc that's best all over for our own wellbeing *peacesign* Live long and prosper 🖖🏾🖖🏾🚹🚺🚻🤓🤓🤓🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🖖🏾

@wildlifewarrior2670 Год назад

No fighting or I'll turn this car around and you won't get any ice cream

@DARKthenoble Год назад

have you thought about just shooting the predators?

@melonmelon2848 3 года назад

That is like the most friendly bird you can encountered in the wild, they don't even wanna run/fly away from us omg xD

@arthas640 3 года назад

@Teamgeist it's cool, I'm into that

@pepesylvia848 3 года назад

That's just because their defense mechanism is to freeze.

@williamcameron1831 3 года назад

its thought that's why a lot of birds are extinct in New Zealand, moas for example being curious walking up to the first humans there who wanted to make them dinner.

@jorgemtzb9359 Год назад

Hahah yes "friendly", just watch your necks don't get shacked.

@theomccann8047 3 года назад

I died at "And they choose a male for reasons unknown to science."

@RiffZifnab 3 года назад

That's how I feel when a woman agrees to a date with me. [dead]

@jek__ 3 года назад

*one male, not a male, very different meaning

@mellow_mallow 3 года назад

I think my favorite is the explanation of their breeding systems ending with him saying that males had to compete for females by sheer sexiness

@piccinini12521 3 года назад

@@jek__ yeah, Hank was very clear on his wording and people just don't get it.

@comlitbeta7532 Год назад

Fun fact that is also why my wife chose me

@BeeOstrowsky 3 года назад

“The one thing that birds are supposed to do”, i.e. suddenly appear every time you are near

@Steveofthejungle8 3 года назад

Just like me, they long to be, close to you

@bronniejeynes9723 3 года назад

Thanks for repping my babies Hank - Advocacy Ranger for the Kakapo Recovery Team =)

@mortified776 3 года назад

Thank you so much for doing this work!

@stphnmrrs3982 3 года назад

4:55 I want that as a cologne. Kākāpō by Kiwi Klein

@Avohaj 3 года назад

Ironically, in Cologne, Kakapo means something you don't want to smell like.

@cucummmber 3 года назад

I donʻt know if this is an interesting fact, but anyways: Kākāpō literally means ‘Night parrot’ (kākā - parrot, pō - night). My favourite bird. Cutey chubbies and heartbreaking

@Hate_wagon 3 года назад

Yeah it is heartbreaking. We should ban cats in the south island. would be a good start i reckon

@swimmingpigeon7034 3 года назад

@@Hate_wagon I think just making it so every adopted cat has to be an indoor cat would be better

@Hate_wagon 3 года назад

@@swimmingpigeon7034i reckon only if we drag them out on the street to shave there little kitty heads to brand them the traitors to new zealand they are....

@susannadanner906 2 года назад

In what language? Because in German... kaka=poo, Po=butt. I just assumed some German scientist decided to humiliate this poor creature (...further).

@ricksmith9177 2 года назад

@@susannadanner906 it’s Maori

@Judymontel 3 года назад

This video added a whole new anxiety to my life I didn't realize I needed. As a violin teacher with a large number of student instruments on hand to rent out, I'm going to start being extra vigilant for stoats and cats being attracted to my musty smelling cases. I mean - I hadn't noticed the musty smell myself, but maybe it's there and I just got used to it! Aaccck!

@nobodysbaby5048 3 года назад

Scares away rapists, too. 😆

@mimisezlol 2 года назад

as a violinist, I think they're talking about that smell of like, rosin and old wood and such that hits you when you open an older violin case. which is a nice smell, so now I love kakapos more than I already did.

@Judymontel 2 года назад

@@mimisezlol I know, but aren't you worried about all the predators he mentioned who are also attracted to the scent? Are our instruments in danger? (I guess if we get them out often, we're safe... 😅)

@mimisezlol 2 года назад

@@Judymontel if a cat shows up and discovers that the smell only leads to a weird shaped wooden box, they won't associate the smell with food anymore, just betrayal. How dare we open our violin cases and not have food inside. This is a major crime.

@Judymontel 2 года назад

@@mimisezlol Thank you for the cat's perspective. It is such a comfort. (And a good point for ferrets and stoats as well!) 😊

@atheryne 3 года назад

is it weird that I know EXACTLY what "musty violin case" smells like?

@MrAranton 3 года назад

Depends. Do you play the violin? If so, not that weird. If you don't - yeah; let's leave it at that.

@bluewolf783 3 года назад

@@MrAranton lol

@atheryne 3 года назад

@@MrAranton I don't, lol.

@mellow_mallow 3 года назад

Same, as soon as he said it I was catapulted right back to eighth grade orchestra classes

@officersoulknight6321 2 года назад

No, it’s really not.

@Tundra-ec3ii 3 года назад

It’s freaking running a rodent OS on bird hardware.

@gigawebsurfer 2 года назад

We also had the largest eagle - the haast eagle that used to prey on the Moa, it is said they could pick up and fly away with small children. They went extinct when the Moa did.

@firstcynic92 3 года назад

5:15. I notice that the original range of the kakapo is almost completely outside that of the Hass eagle, which only went extinct 200 years ago. That was the largest predator on South Island, pretty well limited to the east & north sides.

@thefattyfatty1 3 года назад

Had the pleasure of volunteering with these wild birds. Their camouflage is so good I often couldn't see them 3 m in front of me if they stood still

@michaelzaloziecki911 3 года назад

And another cool fact about the Kakapo: Douglas Adams wrote a full chapter about them :)

@garethtudor836 3 года назад

His description of their escape strategy is simultaneously hilarious and tragic

@EmjiAmsdaughter 3 года назад

In which book?

@michaelzaloziecki911 3 года назад

@@EmjiAmsdaughter last chance to see

@EmjiAmsdaughter 3 года назад

@@michaelzaloziecki911 Thanks!

@sohopedeco 3 года назад

Hank: "Their unusual breeding system: they lek!" Me: "How the hell they reproduce if they lack a breeding system???"

@yuvalne 3 года назад

Now I'm proud to have watched Bizarre Beasts Year I because I know what lecking is!

@SuperNerdKid 3 года назад

When I was about 9 or 10 I made a kakapo costume for my doll out of an inside-out Dixie paper cup and Crayola markers. What.

@Vaati1992 3 года назад

Gotta love those rotund weirdos and their heartbeats in the night mating calls ^^

@Tzo19996 2 года назад

Thank you for actually posting sources, its infuriating how so many channels with great educational content don't do this

@user-vn7ce5ig1z 3 года назад

(Australia and New Zealand could pretty much monopolize this channel.)

@yanikore 3 года назад

"Maybe there's still hope for the fattest of parrots" thank you, Hank, for summing it neatly

@TheMdduran 3 года назад

Smell like a musty violin case? That's the first time scientists describe an animal smell as something I've had experience with.

@pvtpain66k 3 года назад

DO the Kea next! Nobody expects 2 New Zealand parrots!

@LupeFenrir 3 года назад

Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I was caught of guard by the English language randomly incorporating Swedish words, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right? Lek in Swedish means unstructured play, as in by children. So the birds are said to be playing with each other.

@thesfnz3104 3 года назад

yes "playing"

@Schmerb 3 года назад

It also catches me offguard, when German words (except the usual ones) are used in a scientific context. It never stops being funny to me, even tho it's really common in some fields

@drewsin86 3 года назад

I wish I could just buy a school's worth of pins and make this a monthly thing in schools. children should get these and have fun watching this channel. every child with their favorite animal pin waiting to hear about the next beast. thank you hank green you're just one of many heroes I hope to live up to the standards you set as a person. be awesome.

@bloosekloose5481 3 года назад

I got so emotional when he said that their numbers were increasing I'm so happy for them

@xandrewvondiue522 3 года назад

Their dance is precious

@arthurmartin4616 Год назад

Such goofy looking animals. Love it.

@spectator3272 2 года назад

That booming sound is so subtle on my phone. I can barely sense its presence through vibration on my hands, landing completely deaf on my ears.

@cheshiregrinn9847 3 года назад

Thank the spirits 2021 starts out with Hank + Bizarre Beasts. Hanks the man and I want him to narrate everything.

@Ninjaananas 3 года назад

They are so cute.

@Twisterfoot 3 года назад

absolutely one of my favorite birds. they’re such delightfully weird little creatures

@speedmachine69 2 года назад

I was in a back country hut in the middle of the South Island and one cruised out of the bush in broad daylight, mooched around the hut for a while and sauntered off back into the tussock. Quite the lucky sighting

@nikiTricoteuse Год назад

Thats really cool. I'm super jealous. Pretty sure there's not many kiwi who have seen one.

@CL-go2ji 8 месяцев назад

I´m guessing you should REPORT THAT to the breeding programm ... you may have seen one who has no name (and no protection).

@speedmachine69 8 месяцев назад

@@CL-go2ji it had plenty of tags on….. was tame as so well used to humans. Pretty awesome to see however!

@CL-go2ji 8 месяцев назад

Okay - then it was just really cool! Congratulations.@@speedmachine69

@tertain4795 3 года назад

Okay, but now you have to look at the Kea. They’re ALSO just as bizarre as Kea. They’re the ONLY alpine parrot and there are a lot of reports, AND PICTURES, of them sitting on the backs of sheep and EATING THEM? They’re also super super smart, and super super mischievous.

@alliebean3235 3 года назад

i mean, to be fair, kea try to eat/open/get inside/destroy anything and everything; them tryna get inside a sheep doesn't surprise me

@tertain4795 3 года назад

@@alliebean3235 EXACTLY!! They’re so cool!

@mayaenglish5424 Год назад

5:36 That's so damn cute. I know we shouldn't save things based on cuteness alone and should value them for their own sake (and I do), but just this once can we all agree to not mess this one up and save these adorable weird chubby parrots? Please and Thank you.

@genericembarrassingusernam7843 3 года назад

Hank being confused is... Adorable

@DonnaSnyder 3 года назад

Best wishes to you and your brother and all your family for happiness and health in 2021.

@sertaki 3 года назад

I love those chunky bords so much.

@cass8353 3 года назад

finally kakapo getting the attention they deserve

@jeka8826 3 года назад

I feel like you learned about acorns going crazy this year at John's house and that took you down a rabbit hole. And I love it.

@brookeann9216 3 года назад

I canNOT properly express how gosh-danged excited I am to get my pin!!!

@Nokus416 3 года назад

Okay, but that "booming" was definitely just a light saber and you can't tell me otherwise

@David_T 3 года назад

2:55 Ladies love it when you drop that bass.

@caiol.4228 3 года назад

This channel is so good and has a great future. Really glad to be here this early

@Purupuss22 3 года назад

Congratulations on a decent attempt at saying the Māori words. Some overseas commentators make a real hash of it.

@flamencoprof 2 года назад

As a NZer, I say "Well done!" regarding this presentation. I have seen so many items on NZ that are just plain wrong or confused or get the wrong tone or angle. This is all facts, a light touch, no mocking, just excellent. Thanks!

@MotionDan 3 года назад

Is Kevin from Up supposed to be an Upland Moa? 'Cause that looks a lot like Kevin.

@anonymousdalek8359 3 года назад

I’ve long suspected that Kevin’s body shape is indeed based on ratites - a group of birds which does include moa, among others (ex. kiwi, emu, ostrich). Ratites are found throughout the southern hemisphere, including South America, so it would make sense for Kevin to be one of these. However, there are no ratites which have feathers as colourful as Kevin!

@dweebteambuilderjones7627 2 года назад

@@anonymousdalek8359 Or beaks quite as long. Kevin looks more like a flightless wading bird that became fully terrestrial.

@imogenwagstaff7053 3 года назад

LITTLE PENGUINS!!!! Honestly my favourite animal on earth right now

@napatora 3 года назад

woah the booming sounds a lot like a bass

@jordansjournal1324 3 года назад

I literally went to the info tab because I kept seeing all of your pins and wanted to see if they were in your shop, and then, SURPRISE MYSTERY PIN GRAB BAGS, my only weakness

@iwontliveinfear 3 года назад

They are so cute, I have loved them for years! I want a few dozen of them, and an island on which to raise them.

@TitaniumSeraph 3 года назад

This bird is so weird and cute. Thanks for sharing! Your background is rad btw.

@margaretdonovan1649 3 года назад

I love kakapos so much! They make me smile.

@briansquibb999 3 года назад

The cutest "beast" yet! Thank you for the great work!

@janiekilkelly 3 года назад

We in NZ are very proud to provide home for a gazillion wee weird flightless beasties!!!!

@kaleoariola 9 месяцев назад

They are about the coolest and most adorable birds ever!

@hiropon2985 11 месяцев назад

NZ is so wild and gorgeous and bizarre and in my humble opinion has the funniest people on earth.

@mixiekins 3 года назад

Ohhh, isn't masting the same thing bamboo does when it makes a buttload of bamboo rice? It's what lead to chickens being marvelous at egg laying, and thought to be a chief reason why they were domesticated.

@nonaeubinis7891 3 года назад

Smells like a musty violin case? I am sold!

@jasonremy1627 3 года назад

I learned about 5 new words in the past 10 minutes.

@itgetsworse4667 Год назад

These are cute lil skrunkly creatures and are now my favorite bird! Thank you for telling me about them :>

@heatheredwards2982 3 года назад

So adorable 😍

@lycaonpictus4433 3 года назад

The scent is also described as "musty -sweet" like honey

@aussietom85 3 года назад

Isnt 'musty violin case' just tree resin

@xINVISIGOTHx Год назад

I was playing World of Warcraft Dragonflight the other day and i was standing in some random place with some old buildings and a railing on top of a mountain, and i saw a little green bird on the railing. I got closer to it and saw it was called Kakapo. I thought that was really cool and cute. I wanted to tame it as my pet, but I couldn't. So i killed it.

@_Ducky_ 3 года назад

New goal for humanity: must protect these birds. At all costs.

@pepesylvia848 3 года назад

Nah

@genericembarrassingusernam7843 3 года назад

Rip Lyall's wren

@Kermoedi77 3 года назад

Well, now....now we need scented pins. That just needs to be a thing.

@Amanda-zn7ox Год назад

If I'm not mistaken, the kakapo is the bird used as Twitch's RareParrot and PartyParrot emotes. I absolutely adore both, especially PartyParrot. Keep these little meme birbs alive!

@CargodHera 2 года назад

These little guys are so cute!!

@foolonthehill16807 3 года назад

I'm a luthier and the "musty violin case" description is...upsettingly evocative

@Ford_prefect_42 9 месяцев назад

Kakapo are my favorite animals 😭 thanks for making this

@hannahgarcia2512 3 года назад

You should add a sticker option in addition to the pin club I would love to put them on a laptop

@silliepixie 3 года назад

I would join the club if it was stickers!

@bobby-mccool Год назад

Theyre like, a gopher plus a bird plus like, a butt ton of moss lmao

@ilovebats10 Год назад

Musty violin case is such a specific scent description that my brain cannot compute

@tkpease 3 года назад

Hooray! Kakapos getting the love they deserve at last!

@KAZVorpal 21 день назад

Hold on, humans have given a name to every single member of another species, that numbers in the billions.

@kingofbruhssia4639 3 года назад

Kakapo, kiwi, tuatara, 0 covid cases, New Zealand is a bizarre but wonderful place

@squattingheads 3 года назад

The only Animal coming with a synopsis of its predicament

@markwuahlbuargg4780 2 года назад

New Zeeland is straight up like another planet, the animals there are so bizarre.

@MDondy 3 года назад

Thank you for covering my favourite bird species, they need so much awareness

@CalebHussey Год назад

This thing is literally the Duolingo owl.

@doppy8682 3 года назад

"...As you do I guess" is now the newest addition to my vocabulary

@zolacnomiko 3 года назад

I hope that I can reach a point in my career in Pacific island forest ecology that I can leverage my influence enough to get to one of the two strictly controlled islands where kakapō are and see/smell one. THEY'RE SO WEIRD. I LOVE THEM. And also I'm curious to know if their smell is the same as the Hawaiian honeycreeper smell... another group of birds that evolved without mammal predators and have a musty smell that is now, in the presence of invasive mammals, maladaptive.

@jansenart0 3 года назад

You know what other bird only breeds during masting years? Chickens. We exploited that to battery farm them, and they lay eggs as long as food is plentiful, which we provide all the time, to which they respond by laying eggs basically every day. The solution to kakapo survival is clear: captive breeding and battery farming.