Will the wild kookaburras let me pet them? We test it with 5 different kookaburras!
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2021
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Hi everyone! I've had a lot of people ask me whether or not the kookaburra birds let me pet/pat them so I thought I'd make a video about it! I just don't do it very often because I don't know whether or not they like it and don't want to make them feel uncomfortable!
And the whole time you can hear a female guinea fowl calling in the background 😅
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The 5th Kooka.
"What is this?"
"Affection"
"Disgusting....do it again."
Hilarious and original! You should be a comedian!
@@BumpTune8462 Who hurt you?
The Greek Hijacker you hurt my head by asking me that. Are you a 13 year old girl?
@@BumpTune8462 Why? You're into that? It sounds like it, cause you're doing a great job at sounding like a weirdo.
@@BumpTune8462 Rolled
it feels horrible seeing other people living out my dream
YOU AGAIN????
crumb speaking facts.
Oh wait hi Crumb!
CRUMB!!
ayo its the wholesome cat
They look like bigger, fluffier version of sparrows. If I could pet five kookaburras, I'd die of their cuteness. Only a kooks would revive me back.😂
SPARROWS!!!!!! WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@louiserawle8999 Err Rural England maybe!🙄🙄🙄🙄😁
@@iamrocketray rural England my ass!!!!
it looks nothing like a sparrow
@@louiserawle8999 what's your issue with sparrows?
I appreciate how she doesn't go too far and respects the birds
YES ❤
hence why they let her pat them. Most wild birds wouldn't even dream of it! There's an incredible trust on display here
Kooka's are fairly dumb and docile of nature, it's not because they're smart and understand stuff, it's because they're dumb and DON'T understand.
Proceeds to eat a chopped up dead chicken
never underestimate the determination of a human to pet anything and everything on this planet
Next video: Trying to pet a dinosaur.
Edit: Mom, I'm famous.
Even Cthulhu would end up being petted.
@@James-xr2uz if they existed today, we would 😂 there's a youtube video of a guy who has a pet alligator -- pets it all the time. closest thing we have to a dinosaur, right now.
@@James-xr2uz Well, Kookaburras are techniacally dinosaurs
@@galadrielpendragon760 you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
I liked how the second one flew in immediately after realizing it was petting time.
Take that one is the leader
If I heard correctly, his name is "Boob-Bitey" hahaha
He's the only one who seemed to want it. The rest seemed a bit unhappy about it
@@russellmoore8187 oh lol
First thought I had, too, OP
I love how the shy one was like “EEEK! Noooo~ oh… That’s actually really nice :3”
I never realized how adorable kookaburras are! They look big and little at the same time.
When they look at you *straight on* they’re intimidating af 😳
They look kinda like a cross between a penguin and a raven.
@@mangalvnam2010 That's a great description!
Giant heads and teeeeny feet!!
That sound though, that's all you hear. Nice natural alarm clock for the mornings.
"5 out of 5 kookaburras show a great performance, pat test is successful on all models.
As you can see, Australia is still great at producing high-quality kookaburras. Thank you for watching, next time we'll review a wombat."
That reminds me I need to buy a Kookaburra bat
Wombats ain't friendly...
@@girlywench Eh, they kinda are.
@@girlywench Any animal is friendly if you try hard enough
And i will put a Shrimp on the Bar B !!! And crack open a Fosters just for you Mate !!!!
"You want a little pat?"
*Dinosaur howls*
Dinosaurs *were* birds after all
@@TheSergio1021 Ye but why did they found bones of non birds ?
@@temporaryguy5013 I mean, it’s nothing new and there are theories but we don’t know. In fact, most had feathers. Look up the bird Cassowary and you’ll see a lot of reptilian in its eyes. Almost like the raptors from Jurassic Park.
@@temporaryguy5013 I'm not sure I understand your question
@@TheSergio1021 Dinosaurs weren't birds, birds are dinosaurs. You have it backwards.
I love the moment when wild animals realize they like pets! 🥰
Life changing moment 😂
gotta say, I've never understood the calling of patting "petting", makes no sense to me. I actually thought you'd left out a word, "are" & meant to say "they are like pets", still not actually sure if you meant that or if you meant they like patting. Where did the "pet" word come from anyway? Genuinely curious (although I guess individuals probably don't know the answer, is a curious language evolution though)
When you said good morning everybody I had the biggest smile. Very cute video
Oh that's so lovely to hear! Thank you ❤️
I'm more impressed that you could pluck the feather out of Cheeky's beak without a flinch. That is one calm bird.
That's actually my favourite part of the video ❤
@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia there are some crows around my house who actually shout sitting on the window for food,they now trust enough to pick food from our hand,want to pet them really
@@sumeett8826 I hope that day comes for you. It might be sooner considering how smart they are. With how old your comment is, it might've already happened.
Talk about winning the look alike contest wow!!! They are so Dam Cute to look at, and they all look so Very Very Healthy !!! Wished we could get some of those Cocak's imported out here to the States !!! We could use some of their Racket !!! Sure glad there all happy and doing well !!!
Na that's one calm woman
I like how skeptical they seem but as soon as they receive the affection they're like "oh wow this is actually pretty cool"
I mean, imagine living your life - never experience a "pet" but then one giant looking alien boops your head and you feel like heaven
Part of the issue is the approach. Animals really don't like it when something is coming from above specifically.
Literally my cat when she was pregnant realizing affection was pretty alright and she was forever slightly less sassy
The only spots birds can reach is the top of there head.
I have a feral cat just like what you described.
Kookaburras make me feel at home whenever they do their signature laugh
Whenever I watch a jungle scene set in South America or an Indiana Jones movie & hear a kookaburra I also laugh 😅
Agree, love hearing them in the morning along with the beautiful call of the magpies
Kookaburras are soo adorable, even their name is really cute! ❤
Their call is Kook ..kook ...kook ... kook and Burra is aboriginal for bird.
I love how the last one was like "No! No don't touch!" but then started calming down like "oh.....oh wait-"
"What is this?"
"Affection."
"Disgusting.....do it again."
@@CelestialDraconis nice copy
@@CelestialDraconis Animals with Tsundere energy
No touchy touchy ! ( ಠ Д ಠ )
@@CelestialDraconis😂😂
They scream/groan like a kid having the dirt wiped off their face by their mom. My dog makes the same sounds. Are they happy, or just respectfully tolerating this weird human behavior?
I would recommend you not to let your dog come close to children without a muzzle. When birds make this kind of sounds, it's funny. When dogs do it, it means danger.
bro your dog is a skinwalker
@@Zdraviski I'm sure they know what a growl is
@@TheMorningtrain lol I know a dog who very specifically loves a head massage, he refuses other kinds of touch but will run up, unprompted, and put his head right in my hands.
@@TheMorningtrain birds tend to pick the caps off eachothers feathers on the head and neck. They can reach their backs and wings themselfs so it's more natural for them to get attention from others on their head and neck. They'll probably be more tolerant where she touched them compared to any other spot on their body.
That little noise they make sounds like a little growl. They're so cute. 🥰
I love how Kookaburras are real animals that exist, and they're known as the funny little guys who show up in backyards
E: "Does your fox bite?"
S: "Yes."
E: "Can I pet him anyway?"
S: "It's your hand."
E: "I'm gonna pet him."
There was a natire preserve I went to when I was a kid, they had a fox there that they rescued as a baby and it just hung around afterwards. I didn't know about him when I was snacking on some beef jerky just outside, when suddenly a fox appeared, clearly wanting some jerky. Then one of the workers calls out, "Don't feed that little con artist a damn thing, he gets plenty as is."
In the end, the fox got jerky, I got to pet the fox. Win-win.
@@ssfbob456 safe chunk of forest, nice people, yummy snacks, head pats. Probably heaven for an animal that is comfortable with humans.
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Make sure you get it in writing so they don’t sue. Lol
4 out of 5 kookaburras are definitely comfortable being petted. Their dentists also recommend using Colgate.
EDIT: Wow, I never expected to get this many likes. Thank you all! 🙏
My dentist told me that colgate will turn your teeth into birds and fly away.
@@godrilla5549 Nah, you’re thinking of Red Bull
@@mhawang8204 tricked again by my dentist
Dirty tricksters the whole lot of them.
@@overhauledunderpaid6469 Those people are more rotten than my teeth... that's why I never go to visit them.
Such cute little dinosaurs ☺️
Oh my god! They’re so polite X3
Me: Dawe theyre so cute!
meanwhile: *RUSTY BICYCLE NOISES AND PTERODACTYL SCREECHING*
Also really loud awesome calls that sounds that electronic music
Australia experience
Don't forget the monkey laugh that they do every morning and evening 🗿
You should try waking up at dawn in Queensland. It gets MUCH weirder than that... :)
I like how the bicycle noises just get faster and faster
5 out of 5 kookaburras approve! 😀 That's a nice recommendation.
Haha thanks! 😊❤
Petition to replace the Michelin Star rating with the Kookaburra pet rating.
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This comment made me LOL
Thanks for spoiler
Why is noone talking about the fact that this guy is called Groot.
They each watch as the other one gets petted, this is the most adorable thing I've seen next to the red panda video I watched this morning lol
Such a neat bird. Their call used in every single movie that needs jungle sounds. I’ll never forget being in Australia in the Yering Gorge in Victoria, and hearing them in the distance.
I swear they almost look fictional in a way. Like how can a bird so adorable exist
Yeah we love kookaburras down here.
Lookup Australian magpies they have a really cool song.
They stress out smaller local birds a bit, as they like to eat the smaller birds babies.
They also eat mice, rats, snakes, lizards & other rodents, they eat most things.
They're just large kingfishers.
How can a bird this adorable kill the most venomous snakes in the world. It is what it is, and I’m here for it.
you can totally see how birds are the descendants of dinosaurs when you look at kookaburras.
I love how the last one was not at all into it until she realized that the pets felt quite nice. Lol. So cute!
Yeah, the eyes closing at the realisation, seen it in parakeets
amazing creatures.They look so friendly.
The way birds’ heads move feels so snappy and mechanical, it’s kinda neat
It's the same with all smaller animals, they have much shorter CNS routing so the latency is shorter too.
Aw I love how the shy one lets you pat her after she realizes you won't harm her😅
Yeah she's an adorable little character 😊❤
@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia Delightful birds!
She like "back off! Ima bite you!!!.....ok ok fine that kinda feels nice" lol
Shows just how intelligent a lot of birds are! Most wild animals can’t adjust like that to humans.
I love the little blinks when she's being pet like, "Oh... I see."
Kookas: hey hey hey, what are you doing.. um, ok then. Next time bring food, woman!
🤣
@nuggistrike that wasnt funny
@@Pringle2 it's a video about Australian birds, so it absolutely was funny.
Twitter: *cancels kookaburra*
@@jasondoulkeridis6202 no its not that did you read the part where he said sexual assault its not the video
Kookaburras is Australia’s gift. So beautiful and so unique.
Какие огромненькие птички 😊
I find it so cute that all the Kookaburras are just sitting in the same area ready to be pet😍
With that area being the old gum tree.
Yes so wild 🤣 not
Actually ready to be fed
Lovely ❤ beautiful birds ❤️
They where waiting for food ;)
you could see it, they always thougt there was food in the hand ;)
“What have you bring to the kookaburra council?”
“I bring pats, would like a little pat?”
“Well done, you may proceed.”
Love it ❤
LMAO!
Bloody hell those guinea fowl are not happy with you ignoring them 🤣
Nothing brightens the mood quite like a kookaburra calling. Thank you for sharing these delightful birds with us!
For all the non australians out there, you only have to feed them once maybe 2 or 3 times and they get this tame. Such a great bird ^.^
Yeah nah
@@AAAAAA-gj2di yeah yeah have you ever went out in the bush with a piece of bread you’ll get every bird within a 500 meter raidius
@@maxesarachnids3003 I have and I don’t
Do they eat budgies
@@AAAAAA-gj2di sick name bro, I bet you are fucking dangerous on the streets!
They look like they're just waiting for her to start the meeting.
Good analogy, now I can't unsee it. Remote workers are birds
Her kookaburras: cute and social, let her pet them
Mine: fly away as I open the door
1:29 "It's OK, just a little pet"
Slaughterhouse screams in the background.
"Takes a pet, like no problem"
"Right? Not afraid at all!"
"That's a great kookaburra right there"
😂😂😂😂
😂
Noooo, it's a great cat right there 😆😆😆
I wrote the same by the way lol, I also remembered that man 😆😆😆
4 great kookaburras right there, the last one needs training lol 😆😆
Bird like to have their feathers gently ruffled up, not smoothed down, especially if you can use your fingernails to gently rub the skin and feather shafts. That reminds them of another bird preening them and they’ll fluff out their feathers slightly. When they smooth in their feathers tightly it’s usually because they’re frightened or wary, so smoothing the feathers down is less pleasant feeling. I learned this from my parrots.
My parrot can barely say 'Hi'. How long before he can give lectures on bird biology like yours ???
@@rohan1748 😁
@@rohan1748 lol, I mean my parrot will snuggle up tonme and fluff up hos headfeathers to get scratches, so I assume body language tells you that.
My parrot so far can say "pikachu" and "I love you", no lectures in sight still, luckily
y'know birds have feelings right- chickens ususally dont mind how you pet them unless you pull them by the tail which will lead to chicken running away
@@Hopperthejumper so that's why all my chicks run away
"You want a little pat?"
"Eeęěĕẹèéêëēė"
Australia has some of the most interesting birds and animals…and also some of the scariest. ❤️
Edit: Getting a lot of replies that say what I said applies to any animal. Yes, I know. I only said 'bird' here because this video is about birds.
Edit 2: I guess you lot in the replies have attacked Lucid so much. Best troll I've met yet. LMAO.
_Original comment below:_
When petting a bird, it's always smart and better to bring your hand in from the side instead of over the top. Over the top scares them and that's why they look up and try to bite, since they feel vulnerable. From the side makes them feel less vulnerable, and is a better way to gain their trust. I've been taught this by an expert on hawks and falcons.
no one cares
@@lucid8943 You speak for everyone?
@@lucid8943 You did care, so you wrote this magnificent comment.
True!
Off topic but I love your pfp. Their songs gave me so much nostalgia 💖
1:31 ghast screaming
Fr tho
It’s sweet that she comes back regularly to like comments here. Hey! Hope you are doing well! Keep petting the birds!
The last one at the end was like, "Oh, this feels good. Maybe I'll let you do this pet thing you say. "
Every animal before being petted:"ew, humans smell so bad, i dont trust them"
After being petted:"what is this? I like It, i allow you to do It, thanks"
humans are magical. druids, the lot of 'em. give them long enough and they WILL cast animal friendship on anything they can.
@@curlygurly2112 that sound like a nice dnd character thanks for the idea :D(a mediocre mage but has an "aura" of animal friendship around him)
@@Waxotoo whether he wants to befriend them or not
@@curlygurly2112 yee they would just follow him everywhere and you just have an army of animal at the end
@@Waxotoo "DAVID, IS THAT A SKUNK?!"
"...dunno, man. Thought it was a weird cat, but maybe."
I'm so jealous, come on... I'm melting 😂
😉❤
@AA-VFX If this is one of your usual "subtle" and sad promotions, then you forgot to bold your text as you usually do.
Me too
🤦♂️
@@LiegeMaximo what happen?
the sounds in this video are the most iconic Australian 6AM window sounds of all time.
You are a blessed lady with all those beautiful friendly birds, so adorable and fun to watch ❤ Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you ❤️
You all know when we discover alien life our first instinct is gonna be to pet it, and no one can tell me otherwise.
The second will be to pet it heavily...
Like on the Heavy Petting Zoo album cover ?
Now all I can imagine is someone finding the Zerg and trying to pet an Ultralisk
@Social Injustice Goblin you sound out of touch, are u ok
I fear we'll be the ones getting petted!
The last one is a perfect example of surrendering to temptation. Little guy was pretending to be feisty and tough.😂😂😂
訪問するメンバーはほぼ決まっているようですね！みんな慣れて触らせてくれるのは親愛の証。、、羨ましい。🤗👍
Boob Bitey really wanted that pet, bro flew over
Also Cheeky Boy seems really comfortable around you, that's nice
So cute! Much better than my cockies if I try they just give me a half assed hiss and make it known I will lose that finger haha
Thanks! Haha yeah I've tried that with cockies in the past so completely understand! Apparently parrots are one of the only animals that Steve Irwin was afraid of 😅
well duh, the birds you see in the video aren't completely depressed because they're locked in a cage like your birds
@@fanlbc *wild* cockatoos, buddy.
@@fanlbc how do you know he keeps them in a cage?
@@fanlbc wild cockatoos you moron
These birds are quite adorable mate
Thanks mate!
Must be mating season
@@3D1ofakind 💀
These birds are quite adorable, mate.*
@@OriginalPuro get some bitches
Last one..
" WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?... what.. come on.. whaaat... oh, ok.. not so dangerous.. but still.. watching you! " 😂😋
Those birds are really cool, really cool! ❤
These birds are obviously acclimated to humans...they likely have a routine pattern of houses they stop by & receive such treatment... very cool birds... one of my favorites! I love it when they start laughing...
I like how the second one flew in right away like, "Let me get in on this action!"
Australia
Pros:
-Cute birds
-Koalas
Cons:
-Pretty much everything else wants to kill you
-The things that want to kill you are willing to break into your house
Wrong, they are most likely ALREADY in your house 😂
Koala is a con too, those Chlamydia-infested sex offenders
Americans will shoot you
I think I can deal with some spiders and snakes
Don't forget we don't have a culture of wanting to own guns 😁👍🏻
-The cute birds also sometimes wants to kill you
There’s nothing like the warm caresses♥️from the loving human hand😁♥️. Thank You💐♥️
Gorgeous birds. Visitors to Australia must be amazed by the enormous and amazing noise they make when a bunch of them get together for a "laugh". Nothing like that sound anywhere else in the world.
Kookaburras should be all over the world. They are so cute and funny.
They are all over the world. They are just known by a different name. Kingfishers.
Kingfishers in England are very shy and retiring; you are lucky to see one...and they are never heard laughing!🤔 In fact, their calls are a shrill whistle.
@@newbotany and the kingfishers here is South Africa are a bit of both. Some are shy like the Malachite and Pygmy Kingfishers with whistles for calls. While some are not shy at all and you can get very close to them before they fly off like our Giant Kingfisher. Just different species. But the Kookaburra is just another Kingfisher species. 😜
@@alastairstedman7840 Thanks Alastair, nice to hear about the South African Kingfishers.
gonna have a hard time sleeping with those around xd
I love how the new girl at the end was scared until she realized nothing bad would happen- her body language went from 'ah heck, big human, fingers, grr, gotta snap at human' to 'oh... well this ain't so bad, huh'
Kookaburra's normally eat snakes, so fingers look like snakes to them.
This family must get fed regularly by this person for them to be so calm and trusting of her.
The one thing I would do differently is to pat them from the side, not from above, or even go for a scratch under the chin.
Most animals don't trust a hand coming from abover their head, they see it as a threat!
if you keep your hand below their eyeline, they don't feel as threatened.
The indomitable human spirit when something can be pet
That's something I absolutely love about Kookaburras. They're really calm! Think it has something to do with being intelligent/cooperative animals and having no natural predators. When you're the Apex Predator, you can allow a few pats.
All qued up for a little pat, awsume.
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pet - awesome.
@@azzteke awesome
@@AAAAAA-gj2di ...
Amazing how that last Kookaburra is totally not about being pet...until it gets pet and then immediately chills out.
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Obviously these beautiful special birds & an other species I’m sure ,find your aura very predictable & trustworthy , which in turn creates a very strong comfort zone for them ! Good 👍 for you & all of them !
Unimaginable level of cuteness 😍❤️😘
"Will the wild kookaburras let me pet them?"
Short answer: "Yesn't"
Where I live there is a vacant lot/small park across the road. An older lady who lives next to it put in a bird bath/feeder, and it gets a LOT of traffic - mostly magpies, pigeons and finches. The magpies try to bully the other birds, and they chase off the pigeons. But when the magpies go after the finches, a kookaburra that lives in a nearby stand of gum trees chases the magpies off. The kookaburra will then perch on the birdbath, looking after his little mates. they will often fly off together, one kookaburra an 3-6 finches. It's beautiful to watch, and I've seen it play out much the same way about a dozen times.
I would love to see a video of that o.o, not so much the bullying, tho seeing all the types of birds would be great, but the Kooka-Finch group
That’s very unusual indeed! Especially since kookaburras will often eat small birds
like how she looked back at you as if to say, 'later, you'll pay for this later..."
Such cuties !! I fed a large gorgeous male kookaburra daily for some time , then he brought the tiniest little 1 with him for about a week . I had never seen such a small one --so cute -- they move around a bit . Here for a week or two , fly off , then they return in a few weeks. Beautiful birds.
Imagine the level of trust. Would you let a bird, 200 times larger than you, pet you on the head??? 🤓
I'm not sure, it would probably depend on the situation.
@@johnbryant989 like if you were hungry and knew that they give free food? :D
...200 times? what
I have actually thought about this with say, an elephant. And I think that, similar to the birds, it would depend on how much trust has already been built up.
Hm. That's sort of like a human playing with an elephant, isn't. "Ooh, she's touching me, it's nice but I sure hope she won't twist my head clean off".
Though I too would be more inclined to participate if said elephant previously gave me a nice banana or something.
Very good animals
Takes a pet like no problem
Very good comment
Very good replies
Awww they're lined up waiting for pets 🥺
“Goooood morning everyone!”
Kookaburras: 🥺
It takes a pet like no problem.
Right?
*That's a great kookaburra right there.*
you have evolved my boi
I'm so glad that I get this! All this time spent on CZcams has finally been rewarded!
Where's the guy without a mustache??
not scared at all
Well now he is in birb Videos. Still waiting for you to Review WWII vids on CZcams
human: attempts to pet
wild birb: i'm clearly being attacked by a very pale snake, RAAAARRRRRRW
Amusingly - kookaburras eat snakes. Now remember what Aussie snakes are like. :D
@@procrastinatinggamer oh shit-
Kookies are SO cool! You have your very own Kookie committee!
I'm afraid the last one is a minecraft ghast disguised as a kookaburra
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"it's okay, just a little pet"
bird: *zombie screech*
I love the last one she's like "ey! ey! Stay away! ...actually... this isn't half bad."
Crikey, kookaburras sure are something else. Love from overseas ❤
Those birds be cookin’ up a beat in the backround
I actually think they were making those little noises out of joy. What a gift they gave YOU! Very impressive. Kookaburra whisperer
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I love their little social noises. I've only ever heard calling kookaburra. They're little dinosaurs
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Finally someone who calls birds dinosaurs instead of frickin crocodiles
@@BackyardBirdsofAustraliaalso are those guineafowl making sounds in the background?
@@BonQeeqeethe3rd320 Yep!!
@@BackyardBirdsofAustralia oooh I like guineafowl
Where i live it's semi rural england and we're lucky enough to have a wide variety of birds visiting our feeding stations all day everyday.
When i watch your channel im really envious however, that said im really lucky.
A round of applause for all people everywhere who take the time to care and look out for all animals. Your gang are beautiful..........
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Thank you ❤
LMAO she was like hey.. this is pretty good
Australia pros and cons
Pro: you got kookaburras, koalas, and wallabys
Cons: if it ain't one of these 3 things, chances are they want you dead. Yes, even the bacteria in the soil wants you dead.
Koalas and wallabys want you dead too.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
And huge spiders
@@tagnetorare5401 Ironically their big spiders are more tame than the goddamn drop bears.
Pretty much everything in Australia would prefer it if you weren't alive. The continent would be perfectly content with no humans being there. Also, koalas are terrifying.
“Is that your girlfriend’s feather?”
I had to like the video right then and there.
I like how she still ask for their consent
5 out of 5 kookaburras agree!
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