Beak & Brain: Genius Birds from Down Under - Go Wild

Two birds species have brought attention to scientists all over the world: the Keas in New Zealand and the New Caledonian Crows. Way beyond known bird behaviour, these prodigies of the animal kingdom show very special skills!
The Keas in New Zealand are the only parrots that live in snowy mountain areas. They like testing their brains, solving puzzles and challenging tourists: they unscrew bottle-tops, dismantle windscreen wiper blades and tear open rucksacks. They seem so determined; you’d think they have an understanding of physics and mechanics! Thousands of miles northwards, in New Caledonia, other birds have talent, too. Bird expert Gavin Hunt discovered that the crows are able to produce a whole set of tools, each designed for a particular purpose - the most intricate tool culture in the animal kingdom!
The scientists are spellbound. Are these birds following innate behaviour patterns or are they really intelligent? The ultimate avian I.Q. test begins: Keas vs. crows.
Near Vienna, Austria, a Kea Colony is working with levers, ropes, balls and tubes - and even operate a PC by touch screen! Some New Caledonian crows reveal more surprising cognitive abilities as well: They can recognize themselves in a mirror, thus demonstrating a sort of self-awareness - a capacity only few mammals have shown, like chimpanzees, whales or elephants. So we wonder, what is the secret of their intelligence?
“Beak & Brain” combines the entertaining aspects of animal behaviour with the educating but also fascinating facts of scientific research. The transition between wild, untamed nature and amusing sequences in the lab is captured congenial with camera styles varying from super slow motion HD to a “larvae cam” to show the fishing skills (!) of crows.
This documentary is a treat that shows two geniuses of the animal kingdom compete with each other with some funny and surprising results

[@coht12]

I am beyond amazed! That amount of intelligence from birds, they're magnificent. This is the kind of content I'd love to watch more.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Most bird species are quite dumb, it seems. But corvids really put them to shame.

[@RikodiusRex]

These kea birds are a riot! They're like the flying honey badgers of new Zealand. 😂

[@tishamorgan8388]

I met a wild Kea one day while travelling in the South Island. It was rather partial to some banana! It came down out of the trees and happily took chunks from my fingers. It was magical 😀

[@mortalclown3812]

Cool memory ~ I've been watching Brendan J Fox's channel. All kinds of creatures just go right up to him and seem to love him. Living vicariously thru his Canadian paradise. 😊❤

[@taleandclawrock2606]

How strong the Keas are! Not just the beak leverage, but actually carrying a full apple!

[@richardjohnson5529]

A great film showing that the Kea and Crows are a lot more intelligent than humans, they are nt destroying the environment they depend on to live,

[@tamarrajames3590]

I have always loved Corvids, having grown up with them in Western Canada…now, I also love Kias, and want to experience then in real life.thank you, they are both smart, clever, hilarious birds.🖤🇨🇦

[@taz5573]

Reminds me of that kid who died upside down inside a cave, he slipped thru a very small hole head first trapping him upside down and rescuer's could do nothing to save him. Gives me chills watching this guy go into the cave upside down

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Horrendous

[@codedlAnguage]

Inverted triangular issues 👽

[@shannonspage9360]

Sounds horrifying, hopefully they were able to at least do something to keep the kid calm and not pass in traumatic stress

[@zoenanna4594]

Nutty putty? They nearly had him out and one of the pulleys broke. They couldn’t get his body out either, they sealed the cave and buried him there.

[@shannonspage9360]

@@zoenanna4594 oh wow, that is awful. Did he die before they could get him out? It doesn’t seem reasonable that rescue attempts would be called off if they were still alive.

[@chir0pter]

27:25 the kea trying to fend off the other hand with his foot so he can continue biting the one hand 😂

[@MariKehrwald]

This was such a good, quality entertainment! These are phenomenally smart birds!!!

[@American-Jello]

I have to wonder how many Keas were accidentally killed in those traps. Seems to me an inevitable conclusion, knowing how Keas like to tear things up.

[@anoopkc4034]

spending time with nature, natural way is beautiful bright brimming bloosming coloured enjoyable really 🌑 great pleasure meaning full atmosphere is with nature...simply BEAUTIFUL simplicity of nature that's all I have been waiting for suchlike BEAUTIFUL BEAUTY of birds, animals anoopkumar arora

[@robyn7287]

How did that guy get out of the Kia cave. No room to turn around,no rope attached?? I’ll never underestimate a crow again. I’ve seen these kia’s in New Zealand and they are very entertaining till they start to destroy a car or two. Beautiful video in a beautiful country.

[@Kebekwoodcraft7375]

Very very interesting 🧐 I love crows thanks 😊

[@mortalclown3812]

I love all animals, but sometimes one rolls by that just 😍 Kakapos and keas are next level. Of course, they're endangered - especially the former. It's heartbreaking. 🌏 Our beautiful Earth needs triage in an no small way. Let's do what we must to heal her. Take care, dear ones. 🌏🍃🦋🐦🔭🌙✨🛸💙📿🙏

[@eschwarz1003]

AWESOME DOC!

[@raffaelacedraschi7110]

Espectacular, felicidades por este documentario, tan bien hecho y divertido

[@AdamLeite]

An amazingly done documentary.

[@Ster_Marie]

Watching feathered scientist is engaging entertainment. I love ❤️ it!

[@gracejackson-seivwright3880]

love these ,so entertainig and refreshing....intelligent.

[@dubemccready7438]

such a delicious way to spend an afternoon watching cute smart birds of all kinds doing their daily routine kinda things. So awesome to see. thank you for sharing.

[@Flame-Bright-Cheer]

Superbly well done amazing awesome documentary appreciate all the hard work that went into making this amazing amazing Birds much smarter than we give them credit for pretty much all animals.....LOVE 4 ALL

[@TinganHamada86]

Hello pertama melihat video bagus sekali👍

[@justicehlatshwayo]

You guys are doing great work. I love it

[@pamsmith519]

what a wonderful program and the birds are amazing thank you so much

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

Utterly marvellous! These fantastic birds are our cousins and we must respect them and allow them to live their lives to the full, unaffected by us. I watched a kea riding on vehicles departing from a carpark in Fiordland - he'd fly back to the next one then sit on it until it left the area then go back for the next one. That was for the sheer joy of it - we humans are SO not unique. What was so distressing about this documentary was the stoat entering the kea's nest and killing them all. What a crime it was to let these alien predators loose in New Zealand...

[@shehenshadshad5650]

Superb. Watching from Mauritius 🇲🇺

[@GoWild_EN]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@reclusenz]

There is no question, Kai are a smart bird. Lost a few MRE's to those little trouble-makers back in the day.

[@ArshadKhan-zm8om]

Wonderful info formation awesome photography its so amazing thanks for sharing

[@angelicarmy451]

Really good, must see!

[@BHURBAK]

Wow 👌 so intelligent birds,,,,👏👏👏

[@badlyniceness2315]

The Kia sniffing and rubbing against the lovely woman’s skin….trying to smell like her..that was endearing

[@lindanorris2455]

GREAT SHOW! BIRDIES!

[@kamilZ2]

Summary : isolation => no predators => long lifespan => high intelligence.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Ok. But there's species of high intelligence with short lives ... So, that doesn't seem to be a necessary ingredient in all cases. 😊

[@cyndifoore7743]

This was excellently doe.

[@klee3282]

:-) Entertaining:-)

[@jeannyvanduyvenvoorde2472]

Brilliant program! Brilliant birds! Humans thought they were the only ones to make annd use tools...how arrogant of us.

[@alanportwood4201]

The guy climbing down the hole to count the birds!, He needs a Grammy Award , Victoria Cross, Nobel Peace Prize and definitely a confined spaces certificate!. what a guy 😻 also, the birds !, If something doesn’t work!, they don’t waste time changing there approach 🦅!. As we know the definition of insanity is!, To do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result ☝🏼

[@chantalrochon3566]

This video was so interesting and I am not surprised of these birds intelligence 😊❤❤❤❤❤

[@graftonduncan6530]

🐧Smart bird 🐦 remind me of some people who are not 😆 real nice documentary

[@lewisreed8415]

dumb people are the worst! 🧟‍♀you should try feed them some bird seeds! maybe help them think like a smart bird🤣 hope u are well xx

[@eddiealbritton2462]

Cool 👍

[@prototropo]

Wow. That was really great. Thank you for an intriguing show--and it was definitely a show!--and an unhesitating cheer on avian cognition. It would have been interesting to hear a comparative-neuroanatomist speculate on brain structures that support the wiring for neoteny, logic and induction in these animal lineages. I have a simple pneumonic to list the exceptionally encephalized vertebrates (and one order of invertebrate)- four Cs sandwiching three Ps . . . Canids Primates Cephalopods Proboscideans Cetaceans Psittacines Corvids Do I get a pistachio or a mealworm? 😉

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Definately. Love your info, cheers, fellow nerd!🥰

[@roseyuen6916]

Here, have a pistache

[@zakishaikh5786]

Crow is the very genius

[@sidensvans67]

More than just feathers .

[@brucecharlyn764]

❤❤❤

[@briansidney3403]

I would love to have a crow for entertainment company but those things are lack the time loud .. I’m certainly impressed with their intellect..

[@SophyaAgain]

35:50 😄😄😄

[@oldskoolgamer6322]

Can't enjoy this at with adverts every 5 minutes

[@michaelchen6739]

Happy birthday Vicky, have a wonderful day🎂🎁

[@davidvento5481]

Now there are two very famous Kea Parrots entertaining tourists by yelling; “Aaaaaaah! Phuck! Damn! Phuck! A direct result of that camera man’s fall down the slippery slope. The one that snuck into the pizzeria screams; “ah fangoule! Now I breaka you legs!” Parrots, ‘ya gotta love em! 😂

[@williamblansett5786]

Interesting, I wonder how Falkland Johnny Rook, Greater Hill Mynah, Congo Grey Parrots or Australian Magpie would do?

[@JJDigitalartStudio]

Itis a beautiful country. I still wonder why K House chose NZ for their headquarters.

[@theosmid8321]

society needs more kia s

[@bikashbiswas4463]

watching Bangladesh

[@normansinclair4437]

The same spirit in us is in them that why they are so smart

[@lilmsgs]

Crows use tools like no other in the animal kingdom? Uh, humans are animals and part of the animal kingdom.

[@wolfganggugelweith8760]

What’s about Yowies there?

[@mariafeproctor9879]

😍💖☺

[@shannonspage9360]

Success…recovery of apple spawning device

[@codedlAnguage]

👽

[@markprendergast2365]

I know people that couldnt figure out half that stuff ? lol

[@lilabarrows6107]

This documentary is on KZbin with a different English speaking narrator.

[@lindanorris2455]

THE KIE IS DEFINATELY RELATED TOT HE KAKAPO?

[@katrinaclinton7368]

Lovely video. Such a shame man has to arrive at such a beautiful place, so pristine and trash it like the filthy beasts humans are.🌸💕

[@ksingleton101]

Sadly almost everything we touch we destroy. Here we see how as we try to solve one problem we create another, one that will most doubt ably cause another species to go extinct. We will never learn until we are the ones that go extinct!

[@4-mylrdjesus417]

PROBLEMS WITH RADIOMETRIC DATING[ The following is on carbon-14, but also applies to every other method of radiometric dating. ] As an analogy, think of walking into a room in which you find a burning candle, after being in the room for a while the candle goes out. The only things you can know(while the candle was burning and while you remained in the room) are: the rate at which the candle was burning, and the current atmospheric conditions. You cannot know the original length of the candle before it was lit. You cannot know if the atmospheric conditions in the room were constant before you entered the room(e.g. did the oxygen/nitrogen levels vary over time?), you can not know if the candle burned at the same rate before you entered the room. Likewise with carbon dating: you do not know how much of the 'daughter' product(C14) was present in the specimen at the time of death. You cannot know how much of the 'parent' product(N2) was available in the atmosphere prior to the time of death (e.g. air pockets found in amber show that O2 levels were around 32% at the time the pine sap solidified; proving that the atmosphere was vastly different in the past. Current level of O2 is around 20%). Furthermore, you cannot know if the levels of solar radiation (a major contributor in converting N2 -> C14) were different from today's, prior to the death of the specimen. - This is just an excerpt of the things that would not be known to us. Carbon dating along with any other radiometric dating methods are useless, due to insufficient data. Furthermore, there are vast ( and proven ) age differences in Radiometric results, found while dating the same specimen at different sites (sometimes these differences also occur when re-dating a specimen at the same site). All we can know from radioactive decay is its current rate of decay. We cannot know the initial conditions, that is; the initial amount of parent or daughter-substance found in the host, Nor can we know if the rate of decay changed over time. NONE OF THE INITIAL CONDITIONS, NOR ANCIENT DECAY RATES CAN BE DETERMINED FOR ANY RADIOMETRIC DATING METHOD!!

[@user-rn9ov1ci4c]

🌹🇾🇪❤️

[@greenknuckle77]

Aussie yes

[@richardscanlan3419]

It's too smart to be australian.

[@l...]

I dare you SUBARU

[@antekatetaketna]

Why are crows and kias so smart ? Why is each and every animal, bird, fish & insect so incredible ? Why do some animals have empathy for others ? Certainly not because of Darwinian evolution. NO ! These animals are "all" incredible because they come from such a phenomenal Intelligent Designer, the True GOD and HIS Son JESUS CHRIST

[@seanrosendorf2210]

❤

[@ArtyI]

Because, believe it or not, intelligence is beneficial to survival. And the more something survives, the more it can reproduce and the more it can have smart children that will survive even longer

[@njauwathimoyoutube]

they should start paying taxes !!

[@GothicPoet]

2:56 These birds are like my cat Ginger Beans. He's very smart and I have taught him sign language. I have processing disabilities and I use sign language if I can't process speech. He knows I love you in sign language and sit as well a b c d e f g h I j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. There's over a hundred signs he understands. We also have a special training table for him, we bond while training. I teach him and he teaches me. I don't think he understands that it's the English alphabet but he does understand what each letter is. He also knows how to use zippers. He has untied my shoes before just because he could. He was very proud of himself and brought me my shoes after untying them and he lifted the laces with his nose to show me what he did. Animals are very intelligent creatures. They are just as smart as we are. We are ignorant not the wildlife or our pets. They know how to survive in the wild we don't. We need a city and schedule to be productive human beings. We even get ideas from nature to survive. We act like peacocks and other types of animals because we are part of the animal kingdom. Our technology has made it possible to share more information about the wild and that's why people are more aware of the intelligence of the wildlife. We are more connected than any other time in our existence. I believe we are at a crossroads of humanity. We are dealing with wars and government corruption as well as climate change. I knew when I was very young that we were responsible for climate change because I studied climate and history. My mom was a natural scientist and she allowed me to be a geek and we enjoyed exploring the outdoors together and learning about everything. ❤

[@cathybenson5119]

Why are you using music featuring Australian Aboriginal didgeridoos in it? Maoris don't use didgeridoos.

[@kevin-parratt-artist]

If this is supposed to be about Zealand, why are you using music that is loaded with Australian elements? Now Zealand is not Australia, neither politically, geologically, nor with flaura & fauna. .. they are totally different..

[@4-mylrdjesus417]

'An Evolving Mechanism Is A System Or Subsystem That Undergoes A Gain Of Complexity Over Time'--ON EVOLUTION. All mutations seen in nature have gone through a transformation that is at its core opposite and fundamentally at odds with the notion of 'evolution'. An 'evolving' mechanism is by definition a system or subsystem that is undergoing a gain in its complexity[i.e. information] over time--what is truly happening you can call 'DE-evolution' if you like. EVOLUTION(not even a good theory) requires an increase of information over time, and not a decrease as we see with every example put forth by mainstream science, while claiming to demonstrate the validity of this religiously held belief, called Naturalism[i.e. that everything came into existence by blind-luck]. Thermodynamics, information theory, and common-sense, show that everything in the cosmos IS FALLING APART, quite the opposite to the insane idea that things are coming together in complexity, by blind chance. WHAT WE SEE IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT OF A CURSED CREATION! Selection is not evolution, all of the information is available in the DNA code, which under the right conditions will be selected. No new code has ever been introduced! NOTHING EVOLVES! On the contrary, everything is falling apart. This has been confirmed by hard science, the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; all matter is slowly dying of heat-loss[ i.e. RADIANT-ENERGY leaving all matter ], INFORMATION THEORY states that all ordered systems will tend towards disorder --JUST LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BAND-NEW CAR. Our NATURAL WORLD is made up entirely of SYMBIOTIC ORGANISMS[ ORGANISMS that depend on one or more other organisms in order to SURVIVE, which in turn depend on others ] , WHICH OF THESES SYMBIOTIC ORGANISMS EVOLVED FIRST? This is only one of many thousands of evidences that prove "EVOLUTION" TO BE A LIE. How do the most complex organisms know to man, with the most complex code ever know evolve by dumb-chance?! It is interesting how evolutionists will say that "things" are related based on some minor similarity[ cows and whales, mosquitoes and horses ], yet while comparing two almost identical "things"[ two green-speckled tree vipers living on different continents ] they claim that they are not related! The reason for this is that if every creature started from relatively few creatures originating from one location, their evolutionary-religious world view would hold no water! What is the evolutionist's religion? they worship themselves believing that they will evolve into "gods" one day, despite the fact that everything is decaying around them including their own bodies and minds! They place all of their faith in two deities, Time and Dumb-luck --the later of which they emulate the best! --WHAT IS MORE PROBABLE THAT NOTHING, DUMB-LUCK AND TIME , OR A HIGHER INTELLIGENCE DESIGNED AND CREATED ALL THINGS? --I KNOW, YOU ARE PROUD AND LOVE YOUR SINS, AND HATE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD! PROVE TO ME THAT YOU'RE NOT JUST REGURGITATING WHAT SOMEONE TOLD YOU, GIVE ME A RATIONAL STEP BY STEP REBUKE!

[@biblerecordingtencommandme7214]

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[@susanuthke7477]

9⁸⁸p no

[@tashamackay3688]

Their intelligence comes from their creator-Almighty God!

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

No it doesn't. There's no such thing as "god". In any case, what a hypocritical deity it would be that would give such amazing creatures such phenomenal intelligence yet permit them to be persecuted by another species - Homo sapiens - which according to the nonsense that is Judeo-christianity, was created in "his" image. It would seem that the far more pure spirits in this world are the likes of the kea and the New Caledonian crow - certainly not humanity in all its brutal sadism and mindless destruction.

[@skooter6381]

That's a raven not a crow!

[@silviuurs]

Kia definitely smarter than humans as they didn't thought about Kia having the power and ingenuity to move the box 🗃. Hahaaa

[@dalysianepgen6102]

Oh absolutely magnificent Thank you XRAYNEXNomvulaX