The Last Song of the Kauai O'o Bird
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Emotions run deep, whether it's in unforgettable movie moments or the poignant calls of the last Kaua'i 'ō'ō bird. This meme showcases the different ways feelings touch our lives, from the iconic scenes of the Titanic to the heart-wrenching realities of the natural world. Dive in and explore how diverse these emotional triggers can be. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more content that bridges humor and sentimentality.
Thanks to @rldavisiv for uploading the original song to RUclips.
To make this worse for you, this bird wasnt only the last of his species, but the last of his entire genus. The ō’ō family of birds died with the bird you hear in this recording
Damn
Actually the last of his entire family
@@esage1your not bright.. the family tree IS his species
@@jeffwaynetripod169taxonomic family
this bird was the last of all the o'os and of all of the other birds related to them
@@jeffwaynetripod169 apparently you’re* not the brightest either
Listening to this song is the equivalent of being the only human being shouting "Is there anyone?"
.....
But nobody will ever hear.
Yeah but somehow I would feel less sorry for the human...
It was a mating call, so it would probably be more like "SEX, PLEEEAAASSEEEEEE" or something similar
@@Notit-hq4exwhy
@@Notit-hq4exyou feel more bad for a little bird wanting sex 😂 you’re a full who is personifying a fucking bird
It just clicked in my head that I'm listening to only half a song...
And the rest will never appear.
Oh...
**emotional damage**
@@elmiklosyt652 Correction: It will never appear *again.*
😭😭😭😭
It's really sad when you wonder if he was thinking "maybe nobody likes my song... I should try harder!"
fr...
They played this song back and it came to check if there was another bird on it's kind.
He just like me💀
It’s worse: he was watching over an empty nest, calling for his mate. “Honey? The house is finished! The kids are gonna love it! Where are you?”
Such is life.
Forget making resequencing technology to bring back Dinos I would bring back a mate for this guy.
He's already dead unfortunately😢
No shit@@Portuguese_Dinosaur
Then fuckit we bringing him and a mate back@@matthewbanes6591
Taxonomically you would actually bring back a dinosaur. Double whammy.
@@matthewbanes6591where is his grave?
It gets worse when you know that the people that recorded this played it back mmediately, and the bird came back thinking it was another bird singing back to him.
Wait really? That's a low blow man...
@@bluediskentertainment7267 then the man who recorded the sound died 20 years later by an accidental falling off mountain
@@Nirvana16 ok
Ok.
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ok you just wasted you're time scroll here bruh
@@BigMuggs21 no?
@@BigMuggs21 hehehehaw
From wiki: The species became extinct from a large range of problems, including mosquito-transmitted diseases (which caused the species to retreat to higher ground, ultimately retreating to high-altitude montane forests), introduction of mammalian predators, and deforestation. Higher elevation forests lack tree cavities, so few, if any, nests could be made.
As of the early 1960s, the bird had an estimated population of about 34 living individuals. In the 1970s, the only known footage of the bird was filmed on Super 8 film and several song recordings were made as well. In 1981, a pair was found.
The final blows were two hurricanes coming within ten years of each other. They destroyed many of the old trees with cavities, and prohibited tree growth when the second one arrived, causing the species to disappear. As a result, the last female bird disappeared. The male bird was last sighted in 1985, and the last sound recording was made here in 1987 by David Boynton.
After failed expeditions in 1989 and Hurricane Iniki in 1992, the species was declared extinct by the IUCN in 2000. It is still believed by some that the species may survive undetected, as the species had already been proclaimed extinct twice: once in the 1940s (later rediscovered in 1960) and again from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, being rediscovered.
However, it has a loud and distinctive call, and intensive surveys that occurred from 1989 to 2000 failed to find any. In 2021, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring it extinct. In this very month of writing in October 2023, it was declared extinct and delisted from the Endangered Species Act.
Finally, was looking for this comment.
Sounds like the species in general was on the way out.
This bird is playing on ultra-nightmare-insane-impossible difficulty
Thankfully. If it turned out humans made them extinct I was literally going to punch my wall
Hawaii was decimated. Many other bird species were killed off also. Then we introduce those damn pigeons and other invasive species and trees and whatnot. Oops!
Videos like these really make you realize how valuable wildlife is and how sad it is when it no longer exists
@@Theechad21don't act like humans aren't to blame lol
@@adamflowers9505Humans traveled back in time to nuke the dinosaurs 😨
The original earth was float and they terraformed ours into a sphere 😱😱😱😱🤗😱😱
Thanks dippy fresh, very cool
@@countryball-enjoyer invasive rats were brought to Hawaii 1,000 years ago on Polynesian arrival. European settlers were responsible for bringing mosquitos to the islands though which is probably one of the biggest issues effecting birds
@@Soul.Resonant humans still destroyed the environment
The last female died at some point around 1982 and 1983. At this point this bird has been singing alone for years now. I wonder if it ever came close to realizing.
damn..
they do not have the level of consciousness thankfully :)
I feel sorry for him
The ones recorded it apparently played it immediately so it thought there still hope, humanity is a fucking dickhead.
@@toe_stealer6930 perhaps he does not have the capacity to comprehend the state he is in unlike us humans. However I have no doubt that his instinct to preserve his species is overwhelming and maybe had a feeling and understood that his species was dying, without any assurance that his lineage will be passed on and without any other one of his species that he knows is alive.
It is important to note that birds are not believed to be aware of their mortality, even though they may encounter the corpses of other birds.
However, in the case of the Kaua'i'o'o in 1987, the last male of the species, it is unlikely that he understood his situation.
He was recorded making a mating call for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, but unfortunately, no female responded.
Tragically, the videotape recording of his call was played back to him, and he responded to it, mistaking it for a potential mate.
He continued to sing his hunting song for a few more days before eventually succumbing to extinction,marking the end of the Kaua'i'o'o species.(Please let me know if there is a clarity or
a grammatical mistake! I'm still learning!)
Damn I am even more sad now...
According to other comments he was the last of the genus as well. Meaning he was truly the last of his kind.
And since you asked for grammar help:
"However, in the case of the Kaua'i'o'o" You don't need a comma after "However". It's still technically correct though, so don't worry about it too much.
(Edit: Ignore this point about "However" I have since found out that this is incorrect. You DO need the comma in this instance.)
"Lab of Ornithology, but unfortunately, no-" You don't need a comma after "unfortunately". Commas are pauses so it breaks the sentence up weirdly when they aren't needed. This one is actually wrong as it changes how "but unfortunately" fits in the sentence.
"He continued to sing his hunting song" I'm assuming you meant haunting here, as otherwise you're talking about it tracking down food.
Other that that it looks good as far as I can tell.
@@ventusargentum9957 Thank You for the Help 🤓
"ARE NOT BELIEVED TO BE"
All of that is an assumption because as humans we hate to throw our hands up and say "we don't know and probably can't know..."
HOW FO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT BIRD IS AWARE OF WHEN YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT I AM AWARE OF, AND I AM FROM THE SAME SPECIES OF YOU.
EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS SPECULATION AND NOTHING MORE I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT.
What you are saying has about as much validity as my 3rd grade teacher telling me that dogs don't ever dream. Your just asking your mind whats going on here, then you take whatever YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE says as the golden truth. YOU DO NOT KNOW. I DO NOT KNOW.
WE CANT SPEAK WOTH BIRDS TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE THINKING, WE BARELY EVEN LET EACH OTHER KNOW WHAT WE ARE THINKING.
Reminds me of the story of the "ugly" whale that died from depression. Other whales didn't want to be around the sad whale due the looks. The whale cried often and eventually died alone.
It wasn't because he was ugly, it's because it's clicks/"language" was on a different wavelength. All whales have a specific wavelength zone they communicate on, and the whale you're talking about was "speaking" in a much higher pitch I believe, so the other whales literally couldn't hear it. So not being able to communicate, they just ignored it
he's just like me
@@mrossknesame
Maybe, I am that "ugly" whale...
Once there was an ugly barnacle
"Surely a graceful maiden will join into my melody any moment now"
Any second... See? Bird! Wait, that's another species
Him: "No bitches?" 😳 *dies*
@@JudgementBirb42voices in his head:
*So... We still have a problem.*
@@FakeHeroFangwhy did this make me burst into laughter at 4AM
@@JudgementBirb42is that
Is that judgement bird
Not only is that sad, it's fucking haunting/bone-chilling imagining that it was singing for years for the hopes of finding a mate but was really singing to no one. Same energy as the rover on Mars singing happy birthday to itself
You just reminded me of the poor mars rover now I’m even sadder
23 and never been with a girl. Me and this bird aren’t too unalike.
@@isaiahexile This bird was literally the last of his kind. There are 4 billion women on the planet. Get a grip
@@MasterIsabellestop comparing the rover to this. I can step and crush the rover with my own foot and feel nothing. This bird however, just crushed my soul.
Me and the explorer share a birthday i was really sad when it stopped working a few years back but it fixed itself
Hearing the last calls of an entire genus is heartbreaking.
Honestly... made me upset.
Me too, it's a loss we will never recover. Humanity must take more control on environmental impact.
@@thiagofeltrin9841 Yeah. Well... maybe there is a way to revive it? Maybe it's still alive on an undiscovered island! But that remains unknown...
@@thiagofeltrin9841 over the course of earths history over 5 billion species have gone extinct. No one gives a shit.
You nerds hear a fucking bird chirp & suddenly it illicit’s an emotional response.😂
Our species will become another statistic too one day. Nothing lasts forever everything dies. Even Stars. The ultimate destiny of everything is to become dust.
This is why religion exists. Because the truth & reality is depressing as fuck.
It’s sad, the only ever species to have its whole family gone
"oh, honey, what's this? I love that kind of sounds! It's beatiful!"
It took all my will power to play it cool and casually explain what these beatiful sounds are without crying.
Nah...
You had every right to cry.
How did she/he reacted?
"oh, it's just a recording of the last bird in it's species trying to find a mate, wanna listen?"
Ya, she definitely said that.
@@TheLovelyEnigma well, that's not a 100% precise quote since we speak Russian, but yea, she did. I wonder which part of this story seemed that improbable to you, lol.
Being the last bird of a dying species is scary to think about.
Not just species, but also it's entire genus. Entire bird genus...gone... just gone.
Humans have done a pretty awful job as guardians of the planet and it’s animals. God should hate us.
Wait until you hear bout butterflies
I cannot believe that the singing of a bird could not only be very eerie, but also incredibly devastating at the same time
without context it'd just be a peaceful, calming sound of a bird singing. Adding the context you start wondering who cut onions in the room.
its not eerie
@@dutchvanderlinde4965Honestly echo itself makes it eerie.
Need this in the next Jordan Peele film…
Но и прекрасным, фантастически пркрасным
It's fascinating how Humans are so emotionally connected with the idea of extinction, to the point where seeing a completely different species go through it will illicit a strong emotional response
I think there's a sensation of guilt too. I mean, this bird and it's entire genus is now extinct because of us.
@@senorbaobab7700it's not bc of us
@shawncc89 It literally went extinct because we brought rats and mosquitos to the island it lived on, which outcompeted them.
@@iloverule3483 that's crazy rats can't even fly. Wait you think rats didn't exist before us? 😂
Probably because there are so many of us it’s the only thing that feels like a true end
This hurts to know that he was left alone in this cruel world without the love of his life.
He didn't even know he existed.
@@scudman7
And yet, he felt things. Rip bird.
There was no one to want sum fuk 😔
the life history of many people in just some words:
@@scudman7I wouldn't count out birds being self aware.
I’m fully aware we’re all projecting human emotions onto this bird that probably didn’t care about more than its day to day. It didn’t even think about giving up, because it couldn’t possibly understand there was no one else. It didn’t know why and it didn’t care why, all it wanted was to keep trying.
But the significance that the bird did not understand is what hits me. It was in a terrifying situation and lived that way, and it didn’t even know the scope of what was going on. And everyone can only imagine what they’d feel in that situation.
The bird may have been experiencing distress due to this, but it still did not care about or understand why no one was around.
A lesson to press forward no matter what, if you ask me. Our fears get the better of us when we should press on very often in life.
And you are assuming non human creatures to be emotionless just because they have less intelligence.
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 I assumed him to have less intelligence, and therefore did not know enough to even have those emotions.
I even said in my comment that he was likely distressed and lonely, but could never comprehend it was because he was the last of his kind. I assume this because he did not give up, there was always hope for him
Now here's the scary question that results from that train of thought:
What is the scope of the lives *we* live? What very basic facts of the Universe do WE not know that, if we could understand them, might lead to life being a lot less terrifying and painful?
Or, like a single bird tasked with trying to 'solve' its own impending extinction, would life just become even *more* terrifying and painful because, even if we knew, we could do nothing to change it?
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 No, they assumed that they have less complex emotions. Which would be true.
“Be not afraid little bird, your call will be answered soon…Where we will find peace to know it will be answered back by many…”
I know this is sad and I wanted to like the comment but cmon it’s at 69 I’ll leave it
@@animeclipz6608 bruh 😳😳😳
Cringe
@@flti
*YOU’RE CRINGE!!!*
lol
m.ruclips.net/video/_YCn9aTJJK0/видео.html
"And where suffering never ends"
Fucking depressing. That was the last ō’ō bird in history. Now ever single one of them are gone forever. Seeing the chart on Wikipedia listing them as extinct is heart shattering.
L bozo to him. Get extincted.
The sheer amount of man-caused extinct birds on that Wikipedia list is heart shattering.
Species have gone extinct for billions of years. By natural disasters, mutation or predation by others species. Extinction is just part of life and will happen to all forms of life.
@christosanimated6161 That's what's so messed up about humans. We're the only species that feels guilty about driving another species to extinction. No other animal would give a fuck.
@@christosdoesthingswhat
It really is the echo that sells this. The enviroment feels so open and cavernous. Feels like someone crying for help at the bottom of an unexplored ravine.
Screw reviving mammoths
I want this fella finally having reults to his unfinished game
I honestly think bringing back mammoths was always a terrible idea.
@AubztheRtist-rx6gc The science behind it is actually pretty strong.
The Permafrost in Pleistocene Park (A place where scientists and zoologists are attempting to simulate the environment of the Pleistocene) have noted that Permafrost has been recovering at a faster rate than outside the Park.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim this is hard to explain, but i personally think that if something goes extinct then we should just leave it like that. I don’t know bringing mammoths back just sounds like it wasn’t meant to happen.
@AubztheRtist-rx6gc That's fair, however, I think we have a _responsibility_ to bring back any species we are directly responsible for their extinction, if it's possible.
We broke it, so we need to fix it.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim I will keep believing what I believe and you can keep believing what you believe. Let’s just leave it like that. :>
Not like you aren’t letting me believe what I believe.
This made me cry and the fact that he don't know he's the only one that's Alive in his whole entire species, it's just sad.
not just species, it was same for the tasmanian tiger. an entire family of species went extinct.
Jellybean sucks
@@prod.SIMPLEA I'm not a jellybean fan here but the drama is just stupid
And this is not even fucking related to the video dumbass
he probably knew, which makes it worse
@@prod.SIMPLEA did I do something wrong here?
He waited for a female to join the duet, only to hear no response. He must have been so lonely. I'm sure he did this for years and never realized that there was no other bird there. Wandering, only to hear silence and other birds that were lucky to have more of their species to sing with. Rest in peace, bird. Rest in peace.
Me trying to find a real Christian woman in a world of heathens and heretics.
@@user-qd4td7yb8ego yap abt how your bitchless somewhere else
@@user-qd4td7yb8edon't forget Harlots!
He's just like me fr fr
The last female died 4-5 years before this was recorded. So you're correct, he spent years alone.
Died in ‘87 but he still became an internet legend. 🎸
I hate how my mind automatically thought of something else when I saw the "died in 87"
@@mrjuicejuniorbite of ‘87
@@Chimney123 was that the
WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87??
Didn't keyboard cat also die in '87 or the years following?
The sounds of nature doesn’t make me cry. But this…… this is a different story.
This is the song of pure loneliness, singing for love that’ll never arrive.
"Huh, no one's here." The poor bird must've thought to himself, not fully realizing he was the last of his kind. Maybe it was better that way for him to not know. He probably traverse the habitat till he decided that he wasn't going to find anyone and just settled down in a nest for the rest of his days eating worms and bugs, never fully giving thought as to why his calls were never answered.
@@Starnight9090 hate is not the answer
@@Starnight9090 Species come and go, its not always necessarily our fault
@@matthewackermanaski9687 okay but this bird was killed by people's actions
fun fact: this kaua'i'o'o got killed by a hurricane
@@matthewackermanaski9687 but mostly because of us...because of us their habitat is gone
I’m not depressed, I’m sad. I feel my heart aching knowing there are no more of these guys around. At least was have some audio records to preserve their majestic voices.
If scientists were able to preserve their DNA, we could potentially be able to clone them back to life. Bioethic issues aside.
@@TheSweetTeaGuy Unlike humans I doubt birds will even grasp what happened or get upset about it
@@TheSweetTeaGuy Even if you clone them, it doesn't really fix what caused them to go extinct, which are all still issues. The invasive species still exist, on the island, deforestation and habitat destruction is more of an issue now than ever. Even if you reintroduced the bird in the hundreds, which would be an undertaking of extreme proportions, it would just go extinct in probably less than 50 years.
Its an echo our own stuggles in life
@@TheSweetTeaGuy bioethics can go f**k itself, imagine the hope such a feat could create.
I would've loved to hear the female version of this mating call. To hear a complete version would be one of the ultimate blessings.
If I could time travel, one of the things I would want to experience is this birds beautiful duet song before they go extinct.
People are saying that the bird didn't knew he was the last of his species but there is something about the way it sings that makes me think he knew no one would answer and that it was one last effort, one last cry for help.
This literally makes me cry every time I hear it.
same
I'm crying too.
same
Your not alone
Same..
It feels strangely haunting hearing it’s song after the species has long been extinct. It’s like listening to an old piece of history. Damn..
Fossils man
It’s like listening to an old sit com laughing sound knowing your listening to dead people laughing.
It feels like your listening to a ghost
@AVerySadBob Think of the voyagers or any satellite or space exploration device we send out in the universe.
Eternally Heading out.
Forever Alone.
With Golden Records of a Race of Beings Recordings.
And their Untold Future or outcome.
I hope the bird isn't us in the future.
Let's bring the bird back
It's like listening to those really old recordings from the late 1800s, knowing that the person speaking is long dead
One of the few times this meme was done right where the man actually has feelings
True my guy
wdym ive literally never seen one where this wasn't the case
@@minzekatze No way bro
56 year old man hearing this for the 1st time.
My heart is shattered.
Meme is 100%
It's amazing that so many people from around the world can recognize the tragedy of this bird. I would've thought that this would just stay within Hawaii but it seems to have grown through the states as everyone gives their empathy.
Most men these days know what loneliness feels like. 🇵🇰
"The states" are obviously the entire world
Not like people can do shit lol remembering doesnt mean anything
the modern world will cause more and more shit like this
*western world
@@jajabinx35 the hawaiians literally hunted the birds nearly out of existence, brainlet.
He was the last one of his kind, died calling for someone who will never come. I can't even imagine that kind of loneliness 😔
Congratulations. You made me depressed 😭😭😭😭
@@LonelyShadow-ex5gu 🥲😭
Try living amongst you lunatic humans. Now, THAT'S lonely.
Reminds me of the song 100 years
makes me sad he was also the last of genus too
My only consolation is that it wasn't aware of being the last of its kind and that he'd never find his mate. No sadness to explore, no heartbreak to experience. In his case, it's very much better to have never loved at all than to have loved and lost
Still sad that it might feel like it failed it's biological goal tho, when in reality it wasn't it's fault
From what I read, he did lose. The last of them, and they mate for life... this isn't that far from when the ladt female was declared dead. He may in fact be calling for someone he knew... but they will never hear him again.
I didn't read the title before clicking on this, but as soon as I heard the beginning of the call, I knew exactly what it was. Now I'm the one crying
holy shit, the singing gets more and more distressed, its like he’s desperate, looking for someone, anyone to help him. Its like he was breaking down, its so sad man..
Pussywhipped
The last gasp of a species.
@@the_emperor_of_mankind Not even just a species, he was the last of his evolutionary branch, the entire Mohoidae family.
@@TrionerExpeliozias holy shit that's depressing
@@TrionerExpeliozias st of his evolutionary branch that reached back to the dawn of creation
The last female died about 5 years earlier. After the video was recorded, they played it back, and the bird thought, for the first time in half a decade, it had found someone. He died a few days later
Oh great… Did you really have to remind us of that? 😭
Dude died to deppresion
😭😭😭
One;If you're gonna spread lies, link a source to a website
Two: This is the 80s, they didn't have that shit back then
Three: The poor guy wasn't trying to trick a bird to returning, and I am pretty sure he didn't *see* him either anyway.
Four:The guy died too(from what I know) so you're lying about TWO dead creatures that left us with a masterpiece of an audio clip for clicks.
Fuck you.
Any and every species to exist including us will all have an end like this bird
I just read about this species after listening to this. They went extinct because of diseases, predators and hurricanes. This little dude sang for a few years trying to find a partner, without success, but he kept singing no matter what. 5:23AM right now, just woke up a while ago and I already feel sad.
The fact that this one wasn’t even our fault somehow makes it sadder. The corrupted apex species didn’t do it in, just the natural ravages of life. And humans were the last witness to this unique species, feeling a now dreadful sense of their own species mortality.
@@JacksonVoet bro, I just saw the notification because I put ASMR to sleep ans I'll sleep sad today because of your reply. 23:23 right now by the way
@@HeitorDeMarchi Oh… Sorry. I guess I was emulating most people in this comment section being morose. Despite what people may say, humanity has more hope than you’d think. We’ve become aware of our actions, and the first instance of human made nuclear fusion was performed a year or two ago. Humanity can undo our damage to the environment, and we can prevent our planet from going the way of Abel. The people’s will has grown restless, and a rebellion of altruism may be within reach…! Sorry, just doing my strange Victorian child style ramblings, but did they help?
@JacksonVoet Knowing this wasn't because of humans makes me feel worse. Nature just decided that the Kaua'i's days were up, and set it down the course towards extinction.
@@sonofjack6286 I mean, we didn’t exactly help. But yeah, nature is cruel. But it’s probably the lesser of two evils.
Ngl this is actually pretty haunting, can you imagine trying to call for someone not knowing you are the last of your species? Scary…
Given the intelligence of an average bird I don't think he was too bothered by it. We're ascribing and projecting a lot of human qualities to a species that has a much different experience of life than we do. I think the bird is just acting on evolutionary auto-pilot.
@@Tuzzz94 If a salmon didn’t see another salmon for years, traveling up stream and in the ocean, do you think that salmon would feel good?
@@Tuzzz94 i mean like yeah their emotions aren't as complex but that doesn't mean they doesn't have atleast a bit of emotion
All these animals don't have a much developed or complex brain. We have the most complex brain. So we feel all types of emotions and this is why we think the bird felt sad. While it's true that he went into depression and died because of that, i don't think he felt as sad as we think as they can't feel the emotions we feel
@@alien3200true!! Although Dogs, cats , Dolphins , Great Apes , Cattle can display some sort of emotions but it's nothing compared to us
Nothing is more horrifying to the soul than witnessing the last gasp of a species. Trust me. I know.
greetings my lord
@bigsmoke312 but many More have; sapient void whales, lithorex, the girls that'd want to have sex with you, troxians, wavy seals and their close neighbours, the Roccaber.
@@commander_expendable good Day.
@@the_emperor_of_mankind i follow you always my emperor
And if you'd been a better dad maybe your kids wouldn't have been so fucked up. Except Sanguinius, he's perfect.
Even without the extremely sad backroundstory the song of this bird sounds so uncanny. I bet it just sounds good with a mate.
Thats so fin sad.
I've seen this many times, but it's still one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen.
While he may have never found love, the love from the world found him.
Found him and stuffed him in a museum exhibit
Too bad in 1987 the only thing that found him while all he wanted was a partner, was torture. They played the recording back to the bird so the bird thought a mate was singing back to him.
@@clinch4402💀
The world found a recording of his singing, not him. He's basically Jeff Buckley. They gain nothing from this.
@@DimitriMoreira he was the last one and was wandering alone for years. Even if he mistook his own recording as another bird of his kind, at least in his mind he would be in some form of peace thinking he finally heard someone.
He died thinking there was at least one more bird.
No matter nobody is able to bring back someone or something back from death. Relistening to the singing and knowing the context of it really is heartbreaking and makes me want to protect and care for animals even more
Better care and protect YOUR genus
@@purpleelemental3955 It's not like the entire world will end if someone doesn't care about protecting it's genus lol.
@@Holyshiet46 liberal detected
Scientists could always use cloning.
Kid, learn genetics. We have the genes of that bird, so we could bring it back in the near future
I can only hope that maybe, just maybe, years from now, this bird will be rediscovered to be alive like the black-naped pheasant pigeon.
The bird equivalent of "if i wish and pray really hard im sure I'll meet her someday".
poor guy doesn't realise "the one" for him already died long ago.
It's insane that more than 90% of all the species that have ever existed already went extinct.
How many animals would have waited for a partner now knowing they were the only ones.
Truly haunting.
People feel bad for this bird yet they bully me for my unanswered mating growls smh 😢
@@dedmu5793bro 💀
@@dedmu5793You'll have way more luck when you decide to stop being an @ss.
Lmao
1: We can't actually know how many species have existed, since only a tiny fraction of organisms end up fossilised or otherwise preserved. That percentage is merely a guess.
2: Unlike the number of species that is currently extant, the total number of species that has ever existed is not actually finite or even quantifiable. That's just not how the concept of a species works. While this is not a problem when looking only at species that exist simultaneously during the same timeframe, as there is a clear delibeation separating them, in an evolutionary context it's just an arbitrarily determined distinction. The fact that, as mentioned in point 1, we have so few fossils at our disposition, allows us in practice to delineate them into selarate species. However, evolution is a highly gradual change, and there is never a specific point in which an individual of a basal species A suddenly gives birth to a derived species B. Therefore, if, hypothetically, we had access to fossils of every single individual that has ever lived, it would be impossible to determine with precision where in the lineage one species ends and a new one starts, and points and intervals at which we would delineate separate species would have to be purely arbitrary.
I don't know if I've made my point clear, I've never tried to explain this to someone because trying to put the idea into words seemed like a challenge that I didn't feel like undertaking, so I hope I did a good job.
If what I said sounds like utter gibberish to you, please let me know and I'll try to think of a better phrasing. (The fact that I'm sleep deprived, which tends to vastly decrease my ability to communicate through language, doesn't exactly help, lmao)
May the bird rest in piece with the rest
*Peace
rest in the one piece
@@A59ri me when
@@A59ribruh ☠️
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This is haunting, the crushing feeling of emptiness this bird would have felt is heartbreaking, the feeling of sadness is then multiplied by 100x knowing that the people who recorded this eerie song played it back right away to them, bone chilling
You can actually hear the growing sadness, desperation, and realisation of the futility towards the end of that recording...
The sadder thing is that he starts losing hope at the end :(
Words cannot express the grand sense of emptiness this has dropped on me
Being a Hawaiian and hearing this makes my heart fall apart, each day more and more of our native species die and become extinct or endangered
Being the last of your kind must truly be the loneliest thing, but not even having the capability to understand that you are is cosmic terror truly. Just singing into the void, waiting for a response that never came
That’s sad, the loneliness in its voice, hits really hard. Unaware of being the last of its kind.
Was a wonderful creature, fly in heaven.
Birds are not humans I dont think it will feel any loneliness and it was a happy bird till it’s days gone
@@bamf6603 What? Animals do in-fact feel loneliness and gets sad as well. Try buying a parrot pair and separate them in a week, they’ll start plucking their feathers and it’ll get even worse as the days will pass. So what’s your point?
@@gigachad3695 why cant he operate with other birds?
@@bamf6603 From operate, do you mean to live and reproduce with other birds? Very unlikely, and it will certainly not happen, because both will be of different species.
@@bamf6603Are you fking dmb?
This meme gives me anxious feelings, the echo, the fact that he don't even knew that he is last of his species.
Here from the second mandela catalogue vol. 5 teaser. Knowing the context of what this sound is now is quite sad
This sound appears there?
What I love about this is that even though it’s very sad, and the bird is most definitely dead by now, the bird will still be remembered by millions of people. Bro couldn’t find a mate, but the internet found him.
poor bird god knows how much of a depression he went through before he died because of loneliness
You're just looking at this bird through a human lense. Perhaps the bird felt totally chill within himself but just from an evolutionary standpoint felt compelled to call for a mate. You don't know that. Don't think a bird has the same experience of life as a human does. It is different in so many possible ways.
100% not. As a male it's your responsibility to have children with a mate. Guy went out thinking he was complete failure.
@@JohrnyReport My responsibility?
@@Totallydefinetlynotabot💀💀
man what happened to get 4 replies in just 1 day??
There are recordings of the duet and it's beautiful, but honestly this little bird would have had a mate in a heartbeat, he has very strong male singing for this species.
There's a reason he's the last
@@alrah5978 yeah, because as soon as Europeans arrived on the island the rats, insects and other assorted invasive species disembarked with them, starting a countdown timer to extinction. It’s not just the Kauai O’o, either, it’s the entire genus they belong to. And the entire family that their genus is within is also now extinct. This bird was the last living member of an entire family of bird genuses.
@@Thor-Orion Jesus christ, now I feel worse
@@LOL-bs1hg and this is why no one likes humans (:
@@Thor-Orionnow i feel bad for being an European
What makes this even more sad is that this is supposed to be a duet, the pauses in between calls is for the female to join in singing.
That’s maybe the prettiest sound I’ve ever heard, that’s so tragic
As a nature lover myself, this hurts so freaking bad…
What makes you a nature lover?
@@clinch4402 I imagine loving nature makes someone a nature lover
@@Navigarde ☝🤓
@@clinch4402 you literally asked bro what else do you want me to do 💀
@@clinch4402go play fortnite or cod
This breaks my heart every time I hear it. John Zorn made the whole album to pay homage to this poor little fella (the album name is O'o and it is absolutely phenomenal) ❤❤❤
Link?
@@MaskedAnonymous ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_lYoqRp0HPrwR4A0a7VDG6CTKpIfAWGTjY&si=pmNVAxaD2iFpX1uk Akiaola and Po'o'uli are also extinct species endemic to Hawaii btw
Link please
I found it on spotify, and it's really not that good. I hope this bird will find peace and happiness anew in heaven.
@@animefanundercover3001 ok thanks
the sound the Kauai makes is so beautiful.
If you’re feeling depressed about being single with no lover, just remember that this bird singing for a mate will never ever find out that it’s the last of its kind, never find a mate and is probably dead at this point.
Be thankful for what you have.
This is the most saddest thing even in 2022
Now in September 2023
Pretty sad in 1987 too
2024
And it's such a ghostly sounding bird song, echoing out into a forest with not a single other of his species. He's calling into the void and he doesn't even know it.
Right in the feels. Tears are welling up right now
We men cry not for the stupidities of a population in billions of numbers and who use their intelligence for their own greed in love and status. we mourne the sorrows of an innocent creature in his simple life struggles to find companionship in an uncertain world as we males recognize all too well. Our feathered brother's song will echoe on but will not be forgotten. We have failed this world as the intelligent protector species and feel the loss of one of its creations that filled this world with wonder.
😔💐
Dude this is the RUclips Comment section
As a woman I sound like I have more testosterone than you-
If you want a good idea of how soul-crushing this sort of situation is: Imagine you wake up one day and then look outside to see no one out there at all, and no sounds you usually would hear either (especially if you live in a huge major city). So, you get dressed, go outside and realize how eerily quiet it suddenly is now. And for the next several hours, you try to call out for someone, ANYONE besides yourself to be sure you weren't losing your mind....but no one answers back by the end of the day. Maybe a disaster happened? Maybe there's some giant thing going on you didn't know about everyone left town to go see? You ponder this and inevitably try to use your phone to call everyone you know....nope, no answer with anyone. You try to go online to see if anyone else is discussing this.....nope, strangely nothing new has been posted on ANY sites you go to since a specific time last night. And you wonder what is going on, trying every method imaginable to just get someone, ANYONE to respond to your calls....unware that as of that morning, you are the last human being to ever exist in the universe. And once you die, you take the entire species' existence and legacy, and any trace it ever existed as time crumbles all of humanity's creations to dust inevitably, with you
I occasionally have such thoughts and I spent a lot of time mind gaming what to do in the first few days and the first weeks to get able to sustain myself. In my mind electricity is out immediately.
I'd have to do a lot of breaking-in to get everything needed from dysfunct stores. I'd need to keep my car running with fuel from gas stations without power. Breaking into a gas station, supplying the pump with power from a generator that I got from a hardware store.
Every step needs the right order or I'd end up somewhere out of luck with no-one to help.
Medication. Where are the warehouses of pharmacy distributors?
How long does fuel last in the tanks of gas stations before it doesn't ignite anymore? Some people claim it's a year.
All cooled food will rot quickly.
But will the longer shelf life food stay in the supermarket or will a now undesturbed rat population quickly eat everything?
It was like the first episode of "The Twilight Zone" where that astronaut had to go through a simulation similar to what you described.
If I were in that situation, I would vastly prefer if I was ignorant to the fate of my species. Nobody should ever have to carry that type of mental burden. Thankfully, a small bird probably wouldn't fully understand the scope of that situation.
shongbob
That would unironically be the best day of my life.
Is it just me or does this bird give me a reminder of how solace the universe is and at the end of the day we caused the death of a pure species and many more and yet we continue on this path instead of an edit in demaeaner and that we are all eventually going to be alone with no one to love.
Dont worry, the humans turn is coming one day. The Earth will shake us off like a bad rash.
To the kuai bird hunter that see this why you sell it for money there an entire factory of money like human make that and if everyone have a lot of money money is worthless and why you hunt them
Maybe there no one but hey this comments exist
Nature is cruel. Humans aren’t doing anything that any other species wouldn’t do if they had the ability. We ourselves are a force of nature. Do we shame the ocean waves that erode the rocks on the shore? No.
@@povang Why should you celebrate this fact?
Just you
Even more strange when you realize a species of evolved primates used their gadgets to immortalize his song
At least the poor bird is reunited with his family.
The guy who recorded the last call also died in an unfortunate accident while filming, so the last person to hear the real call outside the audio is also gone
I hope he's in bird heaven and singing with a mate and community he found
There is no heaven of any kind, he died in 1987 and like all his species in the past including him, they are no more an absolute end. Perhaps until we learn gentic engineering and try to recreate the specie.
Imagine you're still in a world of birds and beasts. And all of them are still doing their thing. But you can never truly be happy or find fulfillment among them.
Goddamn invisible onion-cutting ninjas, where are you?
This is the saddest 'no bitches?' meme
Bro💀💀💀💀💀💀
just like sasuke
but this is sad, actually very sad :(
bro. how could you 💀
"extinct bitches?"
Parrots and cockatoos can become depressed from loneliness. Imagine how this poor beb must feel. I’m sure he has many friends in heaven now
the fact that i learned of a whole family of birds' extinction thru a meme is both dystopian and hilarious
It's so melancholic and eery. It hurts the heart because that bird never had heart returned
Enough to make a grown man cry
And that's ok.
@@martinmarkov9707no
you go right ahead tear..
Its honestly heartbreaking that you can almost hear the realization that no one is coming and he’s all alone
Ugh this is literally me.
I’m so emotionless and inexpressive but every so often comes something or someone I get hyperfixated on and can’t stop thinking about and this one of them. What this bird went through literally made my eyes tear up and I just feel so bad for it, all he wanted was love, and he couldn’t even get that. Man, if you’re depressed and say you can’t find a romantic partner, just know it’s entirely possible for you to, for this bird it wasn’t and yet he still tried. God bless you guys and I hope you find happiness and love, it’s never too late to try.
Those chirps are genuinely haunting.
_"He's singing for a female, who will never come."_
Now I am wondering what a full song from this bird sounds like
wikipedia
@@jonathanielpringlemaniii idk "Wikipedia" is a weird tune for a bird
@@keanux5906 Bro you roasted that dude
people changing the is to a was
What's sad, is we will never know. Not just the entire species went extinct, but it's entire genus as well.
Rest in peace little bird, hopefully the next life is a peaceful one.
It’s just, you’re the last of your species, and you’re all alone. You’ll be remembered very vividly, yet here people are here watching this years after this extinction of this bird species.
Not only this species died but many other species in Hawaii died do to European colonizers, Including the Hawaiian natives.
@@harxxa6436 im sure during the end of the 21st century, after we have all passed, we’ll have invented some kind of tech that allows species to revive.
one of the saddest things you can see is this, the LAST creature of it's species calling for a mate without realizing it's the last one
Imagine being the last of your species. Completely alone.
Can't imagine. Won't need to.
I'll die before that.
Growing up on Doctor Who, it taught me its a f-cking miserable existence.
Being the last of your who damn GENUS
It is so sad that you can hear him start to lose hope, he is slowly understanding that no one is coming, he is alone.
Life sucks, nature is mean, it's truly sad, but at least the legacy of his species will live on through his majestic voice.
Fly high little bird 🕊
Man I almost let a tear fall because of how sad this is