@@olliefoxx7165 I'm not trying to insult the world's largest parrot. They're fascinating birds, actually. But so many comments I'm reading about how beautiful and cute they are and I'm like "this is one of the ugliest birds I've ever seen!" They actually look embarrassed & ashamed of their look.
The kakapo is an amazing animal. It is sad that they have been brought to the very edge of extinction, but fortunately there are people who are trying to save them.
Not just a documentary about an exceptional bird, but a very captivating history, geology, evolution lesson as well, bringing us to different places around the world. Amazing film making!
pity about the assumptions they stuck in, a hundred year life span is common for a macaw looked after well, we avian vets know this to be true. my own macaw my grandparents bird lived till 120 years old, i'd love the opp bto work in the kakaok program if i didn't have 3 rescue macaw id have applied years ago.
just to say.. thank you to all the archeologists, and geologists and all the other ists that VOLUNTEER their time to work on new findings. Especially when one fossil can take like months. its always so clear how much value they see in it, and thanks to them, we have so much information. those parrots are also so cute. they remind me a bit of wombats
Well, to be fair, most people working actually crappy jobs would trade places for cushy government/academic jobs, with volunteer work attached, in a heartbeat. You would have absolutely no problem filling those positions, guaranteed. I don't think any extra thanks is necessary
@@dojo3175 What are you talking about? Do you even know what "volunteer" means? The guy who even look for fossil is a farmer and just does fossil hunting as a passion. These people have pure love and passion in what they do, i don't think it's too much to say thank you in good things they bring to nature and its creatures.
Wonderful documentary about a truly amazing bird. I visited New Zealand 20 years ago and saw a very sobering display of extinct NZ birds in the Otago Museum. They also made the point that they had more kakapo skins in that one museum than the entire number of surviving birds. I was very fortunate to visit Tiritiri Matangi island near Aukland, however, and see the introduced takahe there. An unforgettable experience! All credit to the people doing their best to save such iconic and very precious creatures!
They are my favorite color of moss green. Moss green reminds me of freshly cut grass on a rainy day with coffee brewing in my kitchen. I love green because it reminds me of life in the forest and relaxing on a rainy day. ☺️❤️ If I wasn't handicapped and born sick I would have been a zoologist and travel the world to study nature and I would have built a business for feeding the poor and sheltering homeless people and animals. I wanted to invent a nesting box with a built in system that record's activities of the animals that use it, when I was ten years old in 1989. I told my mom about it while we were heading to school. We use to build shelters for stray cats and rescued them. We ended up building water fountains for local businesses too. That turned into aquarium building with fountains as a tank display. She loved fish. I can speak to the fish and I taught the business owner's how to train their fish to entertain their visitors. I was a free diver for 25 years too. It costs too much for me to keep free diving so I gave it up in 2008. There's a lot of animals that have died from climate change and I witnessed part of it from 1997 to 2008. These birds are of a large list of animals that are dying out from weather changes caused by climate change and we are the cause. We move mountains and the earth needs recourses to recover but it's not going to recover because we take too much from the earth. It's sad really we have the technology and ability to help slow climate change but there's not enough people willing to do it. It's shameful.
Love this great documentary. Grateful to the research team making every possible effort to save this priceless lovable species. Hope to see their number continuously grow.
You should watch the video with David Attenborough wherein the Kakapo male makes love to the camera man’s head (the back of it) while flapping his wings & with a smile on his face - I swear - as David Attenborough laughs & narrates.
No wonder the heaviest parrot is in New Zealand, some of the most massive birds lived there in the past. The kakapo is an interesting animal, i guess there ain't many documentaries for this animal so this is a great treat.
It looks like the Lorax from the side view. So cute! As much as i love cats and dogs, I hope no one would release any other ground predators in those conservation areas.
As an animal lover, these birds are precious and fascinating! As a lifelong retired career horticulturist, I’m in my own level of heaven just at the footage of the plants and trees in the video!
Ooo, I bet that is an interesting career. How did you happen to go into it? I'm always curious about this less "glamorized" natural careers. Not many people talk about the plant-lover side of natural study, so it's very mysterious. :)
Kakapo and keas are the most interesting bird I have seen with my eyes they display an intelligence that I’d love to explore as I am from Panama and have had and kept breed rehabilitated and released birds my self I find them majestic and alluring
These birds have the loveliest feathers, they mimic fern fronds. And those quiet, beautiful green faces! So different to the usual garish colors of "traditional" parrots. Like everyone else here, I hope they're doing alright.💚🥬💚
I have come here for two reason. Firstly I have curiosity to know about creatures, species and wild animals. Secondly this video will help my learning English.
I went to both islands as a child in the early eighties. Went to the forests, the geothermic mud pots, went on a helicopter to the top of a glacier, went on a boat ride through the caverns with the glow worms, chased sheep up and down a meadow outside the inn, saw a sheep herding and shearing expo, took the ferry between the islands. It was all so magical . My dad (nearly sixty when I was born) was there during WWII, he fought in the South Pacific and was stationed for awhile on the Solomon Islands. He took my mom and me to Rotorua, where he spent most his time there. We applied for citizenship; my dad was accepted, being a GI. But my mom was denied because she didn't have her bachelor's degree yet, and I was denied being a minor with neither parent being a born citizen. My dad was so angry... I wish I could be a Kiwi instead of American.☹️
@@PKcrash 3 years ago I would have agreed with preferring a place like that over America but I have learned is America is still free to an extent. I will just stay here
What a beautiful creature that we almost lost! Thanks to these scientists for saving them... I hope one day humans can learn to live WITH all the other beings on this planet instead of above them.
The most impressive thing to me about this parrot is not that it's the heaviest nor the fact that it is flightless, but that it appears to be fully bearded. A bearded bird like a castaway on a deserted island.
I'm so grateful for all of the people's hard work, determination, and efforts of every kind to care for the creatures on this planet. If only everyone could think twice before snuffing the life from all things living, no matter how great or small.
The scientific evidence is a little sketchy. I'm not saying it's impossible, but so far studies have been heavy on correlation and light on actual causation.
When was this documentary made? Population of owl parrots is increasing steadily since the last living older adults of low fertility had offspring that reached breeding age, and those have good fertility. They number well over 200 now ( probably broke 250 last season ) and the conservation program is running out of mammal-predator-free zones to put them. P.S. : Funny you chose to skip-over the first major population collapse of kakapos and other native species : Maori colonisation of the island around 1300. The hunting by Maori and introduced Polynesian rat wiped-of the kakapo from most of New-Zealand, and caused a major extinction event ( which took out the haast eagle, the largest one on Earth, the others like the moa ). I wonder why that editorial choice was made.
Humans aren't predators the maori is I don't think snake were introduced to new zealand the stoat were introduced not other weasel indoor cats and dogs weren't introduced the feral cat and dog are the ones the polynesian and black ratwas the one that attacked the kakapo
If they are using DNA rescue, then they should keep a captive population in "The Aussie Ark." This is where they can be certain that the birds never go extinct until they perfect the gene splicing. Of course, given the incredible inbreeding problems, this could prove difficult, but genetic engineering is improving every day and there are always new techniques to work with.
Such an extraordinary, critically important and well produced story. And as sobering as it is to hear of these amazing birds plight, learning that these scientists are using gene sequencing to assist in conservation efforts is uplifting. Big thanks to these tireless and passionate conservationists!
When the farmer sat the tray of fossils on the hood I thought they were just rocks. Takes a very sharp and educated mind to see the fossils like those.
I thought this was another of those clickbait fake animal videos. It was slight clickbait because the thumbnail doesn't show the beak and it looks like a feathery Lorax with a cute lite button nose- a mammal with feathers. But the kakapo is real! A precious bird. Wonderful.
I am all for saving animals and preserving woods and forests, but I hate how hands on we have to be with everything. People need to learn to leave things alone.
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I know it's a parrot, but that thumbnail looks like the Lorax.
Right?! I thought of a ‘Horton Hears a Who’ character too.
lorax ur face😂
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😂 it really dose
9:46 that might be the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen!!! Omg that parrot skipping so jolly through the jungle! 😍
Nah, I think they're very ugly, just trying to look cute by skipping, but failing.
@@crooked-halo Yeah, that's why they were skipping, trying to look cute.🙄
@@olliefoxx7165 I'm not trying to insult the world's largest parrot. They're fascinating birds, actually. But so many comments I'm reading about how beautiful and cute they are and I'm like "this is one of the ugliest birds I've ever seen!" They actually look embarrassed & ashamed of their look.
@@crooked-halo my guy, it’s a bird
@@SamRK-1000 It is?! Damn, I thought it was a large rodent. Thanks for clarifying.
As a macaw owner, I was excited to watch this special, dedicated to the Kakapo! Bravo!
That's cool
Not cool
Hopefully that's an heirloom pet and not a self purchase
Wow... I had never hear of the Kakapo before watching this. Amazing! Hope their population continues to grow, and bravo to the scientists helping them
there's some kickapoo in illinois.
you never saw the meme of one shagging scientist head?
They're delicious if you want to survive in jungle🤣😋
@@Alexis01. if you go the jungles of Amazon, you would look tasty to the Amazonians 😋
@@shirsoghosh4238 🤣💀
The kakapo is an amazing animal. It is sad that they have been brought to the very edge of extinction, but fortunately there are people who are trying to save them.
Fortunately??
@@Blacattacsquadronyeah, it is fortunately. Why would you want it to go extinct ?
@ KSB because that person doesn’t have a soul ^
He said fortunately their are people trying to save it.....
Stop killing everything with a damn heartbeat and maybe we can live- says the kakapo
Not just a documentary about an exceptional bird, but a very captivating history, geology, evolution lesson as well, bringing us to different places around the world. Amazing film making!
pity about the assumptions they stuck in, a hundred year life span is common for a macaw looked after well, we avian vets know this to be true. my own macaw my grandparents bird lived till 120 years old, i'd love the opp bto work in the kakaok program if i didn't have 3 rescue macaw id have applied years ago.
Some wonderful footage but actually a crap documentary that repackages other's materials.
So we living in a Pokémon world you say. where everything evolved from nothing so everything means nothing. Stupid logic evolutions is.
@@ics.infoadrian Naive much? Stick to your bible.
@@ics.infoadrian can't tell if stupid or trolling
This is a great video representing a cooler bird. Live long and prosper, kakapo!!
Thank you for caring for these beautiful creatures 💕....I pray for their survival!
Really??
just to say.. thank you to all the archeologists, and geologists and all the other ists that VOLUNTEER their time to work on new findings. Especially when one fossil can take like months. its always so clear how much value they see in it, and thanks to them, we have so much information.
those parrots are also so cute. they remind me a bit of wombats
Well, to be fair, most people working actually crappy jobs would trade places for cushy government/academic jobs, with volunteer work attached, in a heartbeat. You would have absolutely no problem filling those positions, guaranteed. I don't think any extra thanks is necessary
@@dojo3175 What are you talking about? Do you even know what "volunteer" means? The guy who even look for fossil is a farmer and just does fossil hunting as a passion. These people have pure love and passion in what they do, i don't think it's too much to say thank you in good things they bring to nature and its creatures.
Wonderful documentary about a truly amazing bird. I visited New Zealand 20 years ago and saw a very sobering display of extinct NZ birds in the Otago Museum. They also made the point that they had more kakapo skins in that one museum than the entire number of surviving birds. I was very fortunate to visit Tiritiri Matangi island near Aukland, however, and see the introduced takahe there. An unforgettable experience! All credit to the people doing their best to save such iconic and very precious creatures!
They are my favorite color of moss green. Moss green reminds me of freshly cut grass on a rainy day with coffee brewing in my kitchen. I love green because it reminds me of life in the forest and relaxing on a rainy day. ☺️❤️ If I wasn't handicapped and born sick I would have been a zoologist and travel the world to study nature and I would have built a business for feeding the poor and sheltering homeless people and animals. I wanted to invent a nesting box with a built in system that record's activities of the animals that use it, when I was ten years old in 1989. I told my mom about it while we were heading to school. We use to build shelters for stray cats and rescued them. We ended up building water fountains for local businesses too. That turned into aquarium building with fountains as a tank display. She loved fish. I can speak to the fish and I taught the business owner's how to train their fish to entertain their visitors. I was a free diver for 25 years too. It costs too much for me to keep free diving so I gave it up in 2008. There's a lot of animals that have died from climate change and I witnessed part of it from 1997 to 2008. These birds are of a large list of animals that are dying out from weather changes caused by climate change and we are the cause. We move mountains and the earth needs recourses to recover but it's not going to recover because we take too much from the earth. It's sad really we have the technology and ability to help slow climate change but there's not enough people willing to do it. It's shameful.
Protect this animal. They are simply amazing.
Love this great documentary. Grateful to the research team making every possible effort to save this priceless lovable species. Hope to see their number continuously grow.
They look sooo huggable 🥰
I'm glad there is a new video about these, when they wait a year or two, it makes me afraid they went extinct quietly.
I love kakapos, they're so derpy and cute 🥰. I love how they run, they look so silly it's adorable 🥰
You should watch the video with David Attenborough wherein the Kakapo male makes love to the camera man’s head (the back of it) while flapping his wings & with a smile on his face - I swear - as David Attenborough laughs & narrates.
No wonder the heaviest parrot is in New Zealand, some of the most massive birds lived there in the past. The kakapo is an interesting animal, i guess there ain't many documentaries for this animal so this is a great treat.
Kakapo is the real cutest chocobo in this worlds
Shoebills look like blue and black chocobos!
lol it does seem like a little chocobo kweh!
@@alpha.wintermute exactly my friend And also the resemblance of the name and appearance of the bird looks really similar. 😉👍
Chocobos are built like fluffy terrorbirds and much nicer. These babies remind me of green cats lol.. but I guess so their personality match
They'll grow up to be mighty fine healers
It looks like the Lorax from the side view. So cute! As much as i love cats and dogs, I hope no one would release any other ground predators in those conservation areas.
I love informative shows like this! I hope this rare bird survives as I hope for all endangered. Thank you for caring!
As an animal lover, these birds are precious and fascinating! As a lifelong retired career horticulturist, I’m in my own level of heaven just at the footage of the plants and trees in the video!
Ooo, I bet that is an interesting career. How did you happen to go into it? I'm always curious about this less "glamorized" natural careers. Not many people talk about the plant-lover side of natural study, so it's very mysterious. :)
When I first saw them I thought it looked like a mix of an owl and a parrot. So adorable. Please donate to the cause, and save the Kakapo ❤
well they are commonly known as the Owl Parrot so makes sense.
Kakapo and keas are the most interesting bird I have seen with my eyes they display an intelligence that I’d love to explore as I am from Panama and have had and kept breed rehabilitated and released birds my self I find them majestic and alluring
Their mix of colors are beautiful!
I cannot believe nobody has made a comment about the Stephen Fry video where the kakapo makes love to the cameraman 😂😂😂
I came to the comments for
This! Thank you 😂😂😂😂 That poor man. He got his but kicked in the process.
These birds have the loveliest feathers, they mimic fern fronds. And those quiet, beautiful green faces! So different to the usual garish colors of "traditional" parrots. Like everyone else here, I hope they're doing alright.💚🥬💚
I have come here for two reason. Firstly I have curiosity to know about creatures, species and wild animals. Secondly this video will help my learning English.
Good for you! I hope that you keep at your English learning. This is a wonderful subject to learn from while you adapt to our language!
@@koriw1701 the purpose of you patronizing this person for???
Absolutely stunning parrot I really hope we can protect and help them
Stunningly ugly.
They're so beautiful!
I went to both islands as a child in the early eighties. Went to the forests, the geothermic mud pots, went on a helicopter to the top of a glacier, went on a boat ride through the caverns with the glow worms, chased sheep up and down a meadow outside the inn, saw a sheep herding and shearing expo, took the ferry between the islands. It was all so magical .
My dad (nearly sixty when I was born) was there during WWII, he fought in the South Pacific and was stationed for awhile on the Solomon Islands. He took my mom and me to Rotorua, where he spent most his time there.
We applied for citizenship; my dad was accepted, being a GI. But my mom was denied because she didn't have her bachelor's degree yet, and I was denied being a minor with neither parent being a born citizen. My dad was so angry...
I wish I could be a Kiwi instead of American.☹️
I love being American lol but Im assuming you want to be a citizen of NZ because your dad is?
@@PKcrash 3 years ago I would have agreed with preferring a place like that over America but I have learned is America is still free to an extent. I will just stay here
I believe the farms are run by both strong men and strong women. Thanks for the information, I never knew this parrot existed. Very interesting.
I know why the caged bird sings, and I love this doc. Remarkable creature.
What a beautiful creature that we almost lost! Thanks to these scientists for saving them... I hope one day humans can learn to live WITH all the other beings on this planet instead of above them.
This should be definitely worlds cutest parrot
Great video and cool creatures 😃
What a trooper Moss is❗️☺️🤗💓🦜💓
They are truly awesome. 100years is a Long Life, many parrots are very intelligent. I'm sure they will never be extinct ...
This is about the people, not nearly enough of the bird.
The most impressive thing to me about this parrot is not that it's the heaviest nor the fact that it is flightless, but that it appears to be fully bearded. A bearded bird like a castaway on a deserted island.
still feel the wonders of a child when i find new animals. stunniing
A chonky flightless parrot might be my new favorite animal.
Only 154 of them left ?? So sad 💔
You will be pleased to learn owl parrots number around 250 now ( Summer 2023 ).
Cute. Hopefully thier kind will increase
سبحان الله أول مرة ارى هذا الكائن♥
They are beautiful. Just adorable and very special parrots ❤️❤️🙏🙏
Beautiful bird. Excellent Video and People... and Birds.
Thanks!
I'm so grateful for all of the people's hard work, determination, and efforts of every kind to care for the creatures on this planet. If only everyone could think twice before snuffing the life from all things living, no matter how great or small.
the way that paleontologist can just talk and do his job like nothing is happening, while flies are crawling all over his face... i could not.
What an amazing Creator there is!
I love this video BC these birds are just big green triangles 💚
such a beautiful and ancient birds.
Adorable 🥰First time I saw this animal
I love those birds, fantastic
I thought it was a Lorax for a second from that thumbnail.
He's so cute!!! I love science related animal RUclips videos as well... 🖤💚🤍
Oh my God!!!!
World is having more stories to tell us
Amazing!!!
Thank you for sharing this info 🙏
Such a smart idea putting Radio transmitters on every parrot which have emf’s, which are a class 2-b carcinogen which causes cancer.
The scientific evidence is a little sketchy. I'm not saying it's impossible, but so far studies have been heavy on correlation and light on actual causation.
So basically it's a flightless, vegan, green owl.
Amazing parrot that looks like owl😍♥️
Looks like something that would speak for the trees.
What an insightful comment! Very interesting, thank you Thomas Drew🥰.
Gorgeous little guys
Just something you would expect from Middle-Earth.
What I learned from disease is ... Dis - ease.
From my lil bro.
/Amazing video. ❤️💯
sad that something this beautiful is going extinct, breeding programs are needed before it's too late.
New Zealand seems like such a magical place
OMG, so dang cute! 🥰
Absolutely fascinating.
When was this documentary made? Population of owl parrots is increasing steadily since the last living older adults of low fertility had offspring that reached breeding age, and those have good fertility.
They number well over 200 now ( probably broke 250 last season ) and the conservation program is running out of mammal-predator-free zones to put them.
P.S. : Funny you chose to skip-over the first major population collapse of kakapos and other native species : Maori colonisation of the island around 1300. The hunting by Maori and introduced Polynesian rat wiped-of the kakapo from most of New-Zealand, and caused a major extinction event ( which took out the haast eagle, the largest one on Earth, the others like the moa ).
I wonder why that editorial choice was made.
I wonder if there’s a way to sign up and help the birds if we were interested
They are so pretty.
why was the lorax pictured in the thumbnail??
Catching the rare parrot is not difficult, you're only doing it the wrong way. Just bring in Mark Carwardine, male parrots will flock around him. :)
"You're being shagged by the rare parrot."
That was hillarious.
My man dropping a beat.
To protect these vulnerable birds you have got to keep the big 6 predators away - humans, cats, dogs, rats, snakes, and weasels!
Humans aren't predators the maori is I don't think snake were introduced to new zealand the stoat were introduced not other weasel indoor cats and dogs weren't introduced the feral cat and dog are the ones the polynesian and black ratwas the one that attacked the kakapo
Thank you for your hard work love ❤️ ❤❤
So it's a island chicken. 😆
Can you please tell me how many individuals there are at the moment?
Around 154 kakapo parrots left.
@@johnb.9104 Thank you, I hope the population of these beautiful birds will grow.
A lorax is a fairly character in the "cat in the hat" books 📚😂 lmao
if they're released into the wild, wont they just get hunted straight away without any natural deferences?
Thumbnail had me trippin
That is THE cutest bird EVER 🥰!!!
If they are using DNA rescue, then they should keep a captive population in "The Aussie Ark." This is where they can be certain that the birds never go extinct until they perfect the gene splicing. Of course, given the incredible inbreeding problems, this could prove difficult, but genetic engineering is improving every day and there are always new techniques to work with.
"my name is the kakapo, I speak for the birds"
Such an extraordinary, critically important and well produced story. And as sobering as it is to hear of these amazing birds plight, learning that these scientists are using gene sequencing to assist in conservation efforts is uplifting. Big thanks to these tireless and passionate conservationists!
Moss' feather pattern remind me of a stereogram image, the kind you have to look at "cross-eyed" to see the hidden image
Was there really no predator on these islands? How could this creature survive that long?
Have you actually watched the video ?
Australia has all the good Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all!
@19:45, are the walls of this museum made of rammed earth, does anyone know, please?
Thank you.
When the farmer sat the tray of fossils on the hood I thought they were just rocks. Takes a very sharp and educated mind to see the fossils like those.
I miss that lovely Kiwi accent 💕
Kakapo reminds me of that giant parrot in that Digimon movie.
I thought this was another of those clickbait fake animal videos. It was slight clickbait because the thumbnail doesn't show the beak and it looks like a feathery Lorax with a cute lite button nose- a mammal with feathers. But the kakapo is real! A precious bird. Wonderful.
words such as "corpulent" and "rotund" inevitably come to mind...
Stoats to the left of me,
Rabbits to the right,
Here I am,
Facing extinction with you!
I am the lombax and I speak for the trees.
i hope that the cockapoo will not be the next dodo! More power to the scientist taking care of them!
I am all for saving animals and preserving woods and forests, but I hate how hands on we have to be with everything. People need to learn to leave things alone.
They are so adorable ...and i will be Make sure there is no stoats in d island ... Leaving together with the kokapoo parrots
The wisest looking bird in the world
“uses his wings for BALANCE” …when one is flightless