Happy to have you here! If you would like to stick around o do talk about kea quite frequently on this channel! I’m glad you had a chance to meet one of this incredible birds on your visit!
Sweet little baby. He looks full of energy and has a strong heart despite his deformity. I do wonder, however, if someone could 3D print a beak and attach it to him. However, from the sight of how nice his coat of feathers are and how at-ease he always looks, he seems to be living his best life ❤ Cheers from Michigan, Mates!
It has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him.
@@corvusmoneduloides7420 Unfortunately for Bruce it's not quite so simple - his beak still grows in different directions! We've uploaded a video with more details here which should answer your question: ruclips.net/video/Yq68KKJaEc8/видео.html
Wonderful paper! Well argued/reasoned, and quite rigorous, with excellent data and useful(ly charming) video providing same. I look forward to seeing the further work on the subject! (Go, Kati-Bruce, go, you wonderful parrot!) Do kea beaks have ridges on the insides, like in other parrots? If so, it might be a fun idea to test pebble orientation preferences by dremel-ing similar ridges onto particular facets of suitable pebbles and offering them to him, to see what side he turns up or down. (Though, on second thought, I'm sorry to Patrick or whomever would be stuck doing the finicky dremel work with such tiny pebbles.) Did any of the preening events involve divestiture of pin-feathers/blood-feathers of their casings? I wonder if candidate parts of the body for pebble-preening might be impacted by the presence of these feathers, and if he has innovated other tools for dealing with them.
@@Golgari213 Oh, thank you. 😊 But no, I am simply owned by a Senegal parrot and tend toward insatiable curiosity. Animal Minds has been very kind in answering my endless questions, so I feel emboldened to ask more. 😆
Thank you! The inside of their beak is smooth, but I agree it might be really interesting to look a bit more into what properties of a pebble are of particular interest or what he is looking for when reorienting a pebble. If we did, it would probably be me that ends up spending weeks dremelling hundreds of stones! I’m fine with that sort of thing though, it’s all part of the job! We didn’t observe any particular targeting of pin/blood feathers, he seemed to be just using it more generally throughout his routine.
Keas are such wonderful birds, I just love them! I wonder if Bruce was born with this deformity, or if it was caused by an injury? It almost looks like a birth defect. The first time I saw this video I was absolutely amazed at his ingenuity. I wish all people respected birds the same way us bird lovers do. It breaks my heart that there's people out there who don't care about protecting vulnerable birds.
quoting another reply "it has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him."
I didn’t have space to dive into the names on this video. I didn’t want to make it confusing for anyone who doesn’t know him and thought it was better to focus on this particular behaviour and paper. I’m thinking it might be good to do another video about Bruce soon though to introduce him to people who might just be hearing about him for the first time now and maybe cover a bit more of his story.
quoting another reply "it has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him."
Research is correct. ahem: research /rɪˈsəːtʃ,ˈriːsəːtʃ/ noun the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. "the group carries out research in geochemistry" "Reasearch" is not a word, nor does it appear in the paper, and I just checked and it is not an americanism either.
Today’s Guardian UK article brought me here. Fascinating. I encountered a lovely Kea whilst on my travels in New Zealand many moons ago.🙏👍☀️🇬🇧🙏
Happy to have you here! If you would like to stick around o do talk about kea quite frequently on this channel! I’m glad you had a chance to meet one of this incredible birds on your visit!
Sweet little baby. He looks full of energy and has a strong heart despite his deformity.
I do wonder, however, if someone could 3D print a beak and attach it to him. However, from the sight of how nice his coat of feathers are and how at-ease he always looks, he seems to be living his best life ❤
Cheers from Michigan, Mates!
It has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him.
@@AnimalMindsLab very true. Thank you for replying. Looking forward to hearing more about little birdy and other animals! Subscribed!
@@AnimalMindsLab Once fitted, no more handling is required.
@@corvusmoneduloides7420 Unfortunately for Bruce it's not quite so simple - his beak still grows in different directions! We've uploaded a video with more details here which should answer your question: ruclips.net/video/Yq68KKJaEc8/видео.html
@@AnimalMindsLab Good thinking.
well done Bruce! I give him all my heart!
Wonderful paper! Well argued/reasoned, and quite rigorous, with excellent data and useful(ly charming) video providing same. I look forward to seeing the further work on the subject!
(Go, Kati-Bruce, go, you wonderful parrot!)
Do kea beaks have ridges on the insides, like in other parrots? If so, it might be a fun idea to test pebble orientation preferences by dremel-ing similar ridges onto particular facets of suitable pebbles and offering them to him, to see what side he turns up or down. (Though, on second thought, I'm sorry to Patrick or whomever would be stuck doing the finicky dremel work with such tiny pebbles.)
Did any of the preening events involve divestiture of pin-feathers/blood-feathers of their casings? I wonder if candidate parts of the body for pebble-preening might be impacted by the presence of these feathers, and if he has innovated other tools for dealing with them.
I love your questions. Very well-worded.
Avian specialist?????
@@Golgari213 Oh, thank you. 😊 But no, I am simply owned by a Senegal parrot and tend toward insatiable curiosity. Animal Minds has been very kind in answering my endless questions, so I feel emboldened to ask more. 😆
Thank you!
The inside of their beak is smooth, but I agree it might be really interesting to look a bit more into what properties of a pebble are of particular interest or what he is looking for when reorienting a pebble. If we did, it would probably be me that ends up spending weeks dremelling hundreds of stones! I’m fine with that sort of thing though, it’s all part of the job!
We didn’t observe any particular targeting of pin/blood feathers, he seemed to be just using it more generally throughout his routine.
A natureza é sábia!!!
Great Paper as always!
Thank you! Two new papers in two months now!
He looks soooo cute!
He is really cute, when I see him I think he looks like he just has a constant smile!
Aww so sweet, he's very intelligent, I was wondering if the other birds reject him because he doesn't look like them
The other birds get along pretty well with Bruce! He's quite bossy around the others, actually. :)
Keas are such wonderful birds, I just love them! I wonder if Bruce was born with this deformity, or if it was caused by an injury? It almost looks like a birth defect. The first time I saw this video I was absolutely amazed at his ingenuity. I wish all people respected birds the same way us bird lovers do. It breaks my heart that there's people out there who don't care about protecting vulnerable birds.
Someone 3d print a beak for this poor bird
quoting another reply "it has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him."
Incredible
Long Live Bruce
Could someone 3D print the top part of his beak for him and attach it in a less stressful way?
We now discuss this in our latest video! ruclips.net/video/Yq68KKJaEc8/видео.html
@@AnimalMindsLab Thank you for answering, makes sense, if he's ok and can feed himself and stuff then I get it.
In the wild, they use windscreen wipers, bits of car trim, and car antennas.
Great
Thanks!
I'm still on Team Ka-Ti
I didn’t have space to dive into the names on this video. I didn’t want to make it confusing for anyone who doesn’t know him and thought it was better to focus on this particular behaviour and paper. I’m thinking it might be good to do another video about Bruce soon though to introduce him to people who might just be hearing about him for the first time now and maybe cover a bit more of his story.
Beak modified in a food cutting how posible 🧐
Use 3D printing to make him an upper bill. Did this not occur to you?? Many others have done this for many birds with broken bills.
quoting another reply "it has been considered, but as he is well adapted to living without his beak and is expected to live a long and full life, ultimately it was decided that the extra stress from having to be frequently handled to fit and maintain a prosthetic wouldn’t be worthwhile for him."
Spoilt only by misspelling Reasearch doh
Research is correct. ahem: research
/rɪˈsəːtʃ,ˈriːsəːtʃ/
noun
the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
"the group carries out research in geochemistry"
"Reasearch" is not a word, nor does it appear in the paper, and I just checked and it is not an americanism either.
Why is this docu accompanied with silly sounds and subtitles? It doesn’t need to be cute or does it to reach broader ‘audience’?
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