Brush Turkey Ken & Who Killed All The Giant Scary Spiders 😳

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2 ай бұрын

There's a Male Brush Turkey egg incubation mound I look at every morning. I was keen to see a Bush Turkey chick emerge from the mound over Summer. I did find a number of Brush Turkey chicks darting about the bush reserve. It's this reserve where I found hundreds of Funnel Web dwelling spiders. Totally amazing to see this spider infestation. But in late Summer I find that something has dug up and destroyed the Spider holes. The amount of disturbed earth looks like WW3 had happened. It's a reminder that in nature there is always someone out to get you. Anyway nice to see so many Golden Orb Spiders appear in late Summer.
The Australian Brush Turkey, Australian Brush-Turkey, or gweela (Alectura lathami), also frequently called the Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Eurobodalla on the South Coast of New South Wales. The Australian Brush Turkey has also been introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is the largest extant representative of the family Megapodiidae, and is one of three species to inhabit Australia.
Despite its name and their superficial similarities, the bird is not closely related to American Turkeys, nor to the Australian Bustard, which is also known as the Bush Turkey. Its closest relatives are the Wattled Brush Turkey, Waigeo Brush Turkey, and Malleefowl
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot

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@execation 2 ай бұрын

Nice cliffhanger at the end there 👏

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

In nature your just a meal for someone else. Scary isn't it.

@charliechurch5004 Ай бұрын

@@leokimvideoit sure is

@Lukmanuke-rs1eb Ай бұрын

when i was real little i used to watch your vids with your son of yall reviewing transformer toys and my fav video was the haunted woody toy love to see you still working on youtube i thought you left and got lost into youtube but i found you just now by doing living woody toy

@brooketesfaye 2 ай бұрын

the brush turkeys digging remind me of dinosaurs digging their nests

@tomw2003 2 ай бұрын

Some crazy shots of funnel webs in here Leo! ⭐👏 Also that turkey hill is awesome!

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

Talking about the big scary spiders is akin to starting WW3 once the experts roll up

@teenagefc 2 ай бұрын

Ken has put together the biggest Brush Turkey mound I’ve ever seen. The lady turkeys have got to be impressed with that!

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

Ken the Alpha Male workaholic Turkey

@qwilfish66 2 ай бұрын

Great video and good seeing Fluffy 😊

@askavilucken8768 2 ай бұрын

Tip a tiny bit of water down the hole and watch them come out. I do this when I am worried about one of my tarantulas.

@Steamenginesunited3456 2 ай бұрын

Really need to start reading books more because I had no idea there were turkeys in Australia

@petewg56 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Leo for an excellent video! You are awesome at this kind of video! Please do more!

@pedroj234 2 ай бұрын

Nice video Leo

@NORTH_WESTERN 2 ай бұрын

5:40 the weird peely trees are probably causing the infestation, That bark looks perfect for spiderholes

@ozzistraightshooter9273 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting Leo, great observations.

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

I'm just waiting to be bitten by a Brown Snake, I know if i keep playing there I will be.

@michaelkrynski7793 2 ай бұрын

best channel ever!

@jaimeespitia9112 2 ай бұрын

leo you should one day tell us some childhood stories of funnel web spiders i cant imagine how many you seen in your life

@PCrailfan3790 2 ай бұрын

I love seeing how beautiful your wildlife is in Australia

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

A lot of locals see the Turkeys as a pest now. They are in very high numbers now that the Foxes have been controlled. The Turkeys have adapted to suburban life very well and seem fairly intelligent. In the pecking order of birds they seem to be very dominant, even over the White Cockatoo and pesky Rainbow Lorikeets

@PCrailfan3790 2 ай бұрын

@@leokimvideo peskey? I would much rather have rainbow lorikeets than pigeons, even though they are loud.

@charliechurch5004 Ай бұрын

Off topic, but i remember when Leo's son was just a little bitty boy ❤ i bet hes a young man by now! Also i miss how leo used to refer to this wife as mummy 🤣 "mummy left her garden gloves out again" 🤣🤣🤣 and ge would torch them!! 🤣🤣🤣💖 leo u are the greatest!!

@arconisthewolf4430 2 ай бұрын

Leo ever thought of a public discord server? We could all get together and chat about stuff in the voice channels or show off our collection of knock offs and and art work! I think a Leokim Discord server could be really fun!

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

I have enough trouble on KZbin Vs dealing with anything else online. And much of my battles here is with the glorious Google company. They just love to find fault with my content.

@arconisthewolf4430 2 ай бұрын

@@leokimvideo KZbin can be buttholes sometimes I feel you mate

@charliechurch5004 Ай бұрын

@@leokimvideoI like rumble but I know it's not as popular.

@charliechurch5004 Ай бұрын

@@arconisthewolf4430I watch a lot of rumble bc I find cool guys like azzmadore on there!! 😂

@1471SirFrederickBanbury 2 ай бұрын

I think you’re probably right with the tree bark correlation, but I know even less about nature, so only the experts can tell. The one thing I will say is that every trap door spider I’ve seen had an invisible trap door, no open hole, so I wonder how thats supposed to not be funnel web activity, what matters is that the bandicoots are doing their part is reducing human hospital visits due to deadly spiders.

@leokimvideo 2 ай бұрын

On the other video I did related to the big spiders there were people saying these spiders use Cicada holes as their home once it's transformed by web. I still haven't worked that out but I do wonder how does a spider dig such a perfect deep burrow in what's fairly solid earth that has a lot of fine roots. I did say in the first video if the Bandicoots found out what was in this reserve they would have a feast. But I never expected to see such a widespread amount of spider nest destruction. I'm thinking a well placed trail cam next year may reveal some interesting footage. But I wonder if the spider population will come back as I saw in Spring. To me it was a very unnatural amount of spider activity that looked more like an infestation Vs a natural number.

@1471SirFrederickBanbury 2 ай бұрын

@@leokimvideo I’d have to guess that the spider population comes in weather related waves like the redbacks. If we could pinpoint the type of weather that certain animals thrive in, that would at least give a starting point to determine where and when infestations will happen, kind of like how earthquakes and other weather is predicted.