Kakapo - New Zealand Bird of the Week

[@gandalfandferg280]

I am a kiwi. I love kakapo. I really wanna see one. Yesterday I saw a Kaka at the botanic garden and it was so cute. parrots are so clever.

[@DogFoxHybrid]

They can be quite cuddly and affectionate as well

[@TangmoMopet]

Cutest birb ever Fact

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

The great land birblinq. Beautiful good bois

[@visi7754]

Tangmo mopet. Your A Virgin!

[@cutiepiecp247]

They are critically endangered and only 213 are left

[@Boyl151]

Drawing WolfOwO [old account] 90% animals 1% humans

[@KakapoKakapoUnderscore]

Yo thanks

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

The history of the kakapo is so depressing. Poor guys.

[@silvertheelf]

The history of life is depressing and wonderful in one baggage, but for the kakapo it might, uhh... find a way, as life dose.

[@lukemckee9772]

Henry, loved the video, you should link with an NZ bird charity or start one, i love the weekly bird video.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I'm planning on doing something akin to that at some point in the future. :)

[@itmakessenseincontext889]

GOEGEOUS ROUND CHONKY BOI

[@johnpatterson8697]

25:08 "Kakapo are large enough to find off an attack, but lack the instincts to do so" shows picture of Kakapo swarming a man

[@graphite2786]

Most informative video on kakapo ever! Really pleased you included the calls. I wish more people knew about these horny, vegan, avian subwoofers, they are the pandas of the birdworld.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you for watching! Hopefully this video introduces more people to the world of the Kakapo.

[@xyz7572]

I love kakapo parrots so much 🥰❤️

[@aprilpatel6741]

I myself am not from New Zealand, I'm from America, but I absolutely love your videos they are so informative.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you! I'm glad you are learning some new things! :)

[@wendychavez5348]

I became quite friendly with one of the kakapo at the Milford Sound hostel. The staff were laughing that he was giving me the mating chit from the moment I walked into the yard and every time he saw me.

[@arkinyte13]

Wendy Chavez I’d take that as a compliment lol.

[@wendychavez5348]

Oh yes, I did!

[@Purupuss22]

Are you sure it was a kākāpō? They are so rare, there aren't any on the mainland in New Zealand. (Unless they're in bird hospitals.) They are only found in offshore islands that you need permits to access. It was probably a kea. Still cute.

[@wendychavez5348]

@@Purupuss22, I honestly can't say. I'm remembering it as a kakapo, but I'm a survivor of traumatic brain injury and my memories are arbitrary and unreliable at best.

[@Purupuss22]

@@wendychavez5348 Whichever bird it was, I'm sure it was a magical experience!

[@amikirsteen9115]

i’ve recently came across your channel & i’ve loved listening to all sorts of your videos whilst i book bind! really passes the time & i learn so much 💖💖💖

[@Stoicsaiyan]

These are the cutest dinosaurs I have ever seen

[@juliehobbs665]

Yay! I loved this video! I have only very recently become aware of this bird's existence and, sadly, high threat level of extinction. This video was one of the most informative summaries of the the bird's history. I especially enjoyed the sound clips of the different calls they make. I think I've found a new obsession in this seemingly so innocently naive, infinitely interesting, clever bird.. Thanks for taking the time to make this!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I'm glad you now know about them. Their population is definitely on the way up, it's just a matter of finding suitable habitation for them and ensuring the population is as diverse as possible.

[@juliehobbs665]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy it gives me hope that they are increasing in population, poor little things.. They are extremely interesting little creatures and I hope they find a nice safe place to stabilize them. Thanks again for taking the time to compile all of the great information in this vid!

[@compatriot852]

Sad to see another beautiful bird almost driven to extinction by cats and disease.

[@Boyl151]

Don’t forget stoats,weasels,ferrets,possums

[@badartgallery9322]

It is sad. Maybe we are collecting DNA for future generations.

[@sampagano205]

@Spencer Elrond Spencer their downfall is just having adapted to a different situation than the rest of the world, and thus being poorly suited to competition with introduced animals.

[@Lara-234]

@@Boyl151 rats too

[@Boyl151]

@@Lara-234 barely though

[@exomake_mehorololo]

They're so cute 😍... I wanna see one in person! Horrible to think how scarcely they escaped extinction.

[@a.randomjack6661]

Nothing like the Holiday season to hear from distant relatives. Squark! (Thanks)

[@pikachu5188]

Extraordinary loving bird. From Montréal

[@clivescott5448]

I now know a great deal more about these unique birds than I did. Grateful to you Henry, and well done :-)

[@mrs.schmenkman]

Holy cow, the first time alive heard anyone use the proper term polygynous!! Cheers to you

[@Pestfreetoken]

Saving our native birds is paramount! Thanks for shedding light on our fight 💚

[@panzertorte]

Great work, both from you and the conservationists :)

[@sphenodon2016]

who would win? a bird with a camoflauge perfected by millions of years of natural selection OR *one sniffy boi*

[@midgetman4206]

mammalian brain vs a dinosaur

[@kabocha502]

Precious! Loved it! thanks for sharing!

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Such a sweet looking bird.

[@bkjeong4302]

Probably the most iconic NZ bird.

[@sayurikitamura7109]

All this detailed information. Amazing 👏

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Glad you liked it! More on them to come!

[@MrSicc274]

I learned more about Aotearoa birds on this channel then at school.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The education system isn't the most specific, unfortunately. So good we have the internet to assist in our knowledge. :)

[@atarirastafari2160]

It’s a little out of date but Douglas Adams has a great book called “Last Chance to see” where he talks about his adventure to track some of the last kakapos in the wild to be moved to an island reserve off shore of N.Z. It’s a great read.

[@julicaru4812]

Aww that was brilliant mate , what an amazing bird !

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vadimpm1290]

Im stunned by the level of the video. Thanks.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I'm glad to hear! :)

[@drlegendre]

Fantastic piece of work.

[@BlackFalconElectronics]

I love these long form videos!

[@vernonfridy8416]

22:44 The Norway rat and brown rat are the same animal.

[@The_PokeSaurus]

A great example of convergent evolution. Its a tragedy that there as endangered as they are.

[@Alberad08]

Thanks a lot for providing this!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

No problem!

[@paulg3336]

Correction: Low frequency = long wavelength . The ability to travel long distances is correct.

[@murockey]

Incredible video!

[@_kris10]

kakapos are awesome!

[@gandalfandferg280]

Ahhh I am a kiwi who really values the native ecosystem and I get really upset seeing what has happened to the country. The north island is pure farmland which looks awful and I really wish we had not only the beautiful trees and wild bush but the amazing birds too.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thankfully, a few farms from what I've seen have done forest and shrub borders around their areas, and there have been reforestation projects done as well, although it most definitely needs to be done on a larger scale. In the future, I hope to create some reforestation projects as well, and bringing back animals that are for the moment locally extinct.

[@gandalfandferg280]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy for sure. It's certainly not enough being done now

[@Fredshitzencrap]

Not just farm, forestry aswell

[@KateeAngel]

Yeah, it is almost everywhere in the world, more and more land is cleared for farming, especially for animal farming. Even though it is a really unnatural situation to have almost half of land area used by only one species (humans). The only hope is that human fertility rate will drop even more, and human population will stop rising, otherwise the process of replacing native habitats will never stop...

[@JMObyx]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy There is a technology that has appeared in recent years, one that can end the invasive species issue on New Zealand, and every island. This technology is more a method, it inserts a gene into an animal, the gene is for sterility, but that animal is totally unaffected, it has to be in order for the gene to spread. But in the animal's next generation, the gene becomes slightly more active, slightly more prevalent, and as a result, some of the offspring are born infertile, and with each passing generation, more and more offspring are born infertile. Like a rolling snowball, the gene becomes so dominant that all descendants of that original creature are infertile, and as such the problem that animal poses becomes extinct with the creature. Of course, in order to totally eliminate the animal from the island, the gene would have to be inserted into hundreds upon hundreds of members of the same species of invasive animal, and then said members would have to be released all across the island so the gene spreads as wide as possible, in order to reduce the chance that a population of stoats or rats would be uninfected, and spread across the island to replace the now extinct infertile populations.

[@shibolinemress8913]

It strikes me that moving the kakapo to sanctuary islands was probably much easier because they weren't afraid of humans. It's ironic that one of the big factors in their endangerment has now become their salvation.

[@krankarvolund7771]

It's more that they are afraid, but their defense mechanism is staying still and don't move :p

[@sampagano205]

My one complaint about new Zealand bird of the week is that it can be kind of uneven between videos, with great amazing videos like this, and then some very short ones on others.

[@horkosofdonso7624]

The Kakapo species is on serious life support. What a shame.

[@flamencoprof]

The Kakapo also came second in the New Zealand Bird of the Year, a popular vote run by NZ conservation organisation Forest & Bird.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

These are one of my favorite birds. Im really not used to see bird skeletons. I saw your video of the NZ large eagle and I totally don't see their skeletons look in the manner of posture that they are in. Idk why it's so different than I imagine.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The levels of fluff, muscle and feathers really obscures their frame, so I absolutely agree that it's wild to see how they actually appear without all of it on them.

[@GlockenspielSAS]

Such an amazing animal

[@Mydarkarts23]

Love birds, Learn about birds is awesome, I just wish peoples stop kill birds. I have a question about new Zealand white island volcano i like to no about it.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Chicken nugger gener-slides need to stop.

[@Boyl151]

It’s mostly ferrets, stoats, weasels, possums that kill them

[@KateeAngel]

Please make also some episodes about currently extinct species, including recently discovered giant parrot

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I will be at some point.

[@JMObyx]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy This recently discovered bird now overshadows the Kakapo as the biggest parrot of all time. Hercules Inexpectatus, the giant stands about 2-3 feet tall, and while it is heavily debated to have been airborne, it is believed by some to have been an ancestor to the Kea, and it is also debated that like the Kea, this polly may have been carnivorous.

[@krankarvolund7771]

I searched giant parrot, first link Kakapo XD Then an article about a giant parrot I was like "it can't be that big", there was an image where it was as tall as a human leg... I was so surprised, I just said "what?" during thirty seconds XD

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

A gaint bird that's not a conder,but a giant parrot.

[@DinoMan99000]

wow, thats a lot of info. I never knew so much about kakapo. I hope they are able to make it in the future, but with those numbers, I guess it is not 100% certain.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

If the Black robin could make it, then Kakapo have a great chance to bounce back. Thankful that at some point soon, new islands will be home to Kakapo once again.

[@granskare]

I recall a short video where a Kakapo had mounted a man and the other asked him to name the chick after him.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

That's Sirocco, a Kakapo who was hand-reared when he was born, and therefore became imprinted on humans, hence is mounting behaviour. Lovely bird.

[@kakap0788]

Kakapo is without a doubt my favorite animal, such a cool, weird and stupid bird! :D Evolution is against it but still it survives, as of past 30-40 years it's a shame it has gotten to where it is, but I think we can repopulate them eventually with the best in their field currently helping out and working with them! Lots of love to those people!

[@primordialpouch1139]

I was in another room when you played their booming and i looked out the window, thinking it was a foghorn or huge trucks horn. It would be nerve wracking to hear that in a forest without knowing what it is.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Wow! It definitely is a very interesting noise! I imagine the Maori would be quite confused and scared hearing all of them at night when they were still common.

[@winterbirds8022]

What a chubby cutie!😊💕So? Can he fly about as. Good as a chicken then..to roost at least?

[@LadyCoyKoi]

This bird looks like a combination of a parrot and a kiwi. What's not to like about this bird? 🥰

[@Broeckchen]

They are so lovely! Horribly incompetent at the whole surviving business, but so charming ;u;

[@krankarvolund7771]

So, kakapos are knowned to mate with everything including dead birds, clothes and human legs, but when giving a fake kakapo female to collect sperm, they don't mate? Feels like they don't want to be saved from extinction XD

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

Dam they are stubborn

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Does the inaccessible island rail count as a new Zealand birb?

[@baconhairlord40]

kakapo are so cute

[@Dell-ol6hb]

I didn’t know Kakapo were such interesting birds

[@a-terrible-fate532]

Can they mimic speech?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Not that we know of.

[@Shaden0040]

Welcome back!

[@malfaro3l]

This story of this bird makes me truly sad about how atrocious our stewardship of this planet is. This is an amazing creature that has so much to teach us, representing a truly unique view at how evolution can diverge under isolated circumstances. Unfortunately, we just can’t have nice things without ruining them.

[@riichobamin7612]

Stewardship ? Mate, I would have thought you to be a Creationist if not for the fact tha you also acknowledged evolution in your comment.

[@Seroriannedreno4766]

This is my favorite bird I like it

[@BallTheRascal]

Kakapo💙

[@Skibiditoilet_toes]

KakaPO 💜

[@dhindaravrel8712]

That one downvote comes from an industrial agriculture lobbyist, I bet.

[@shereenchisholm8256]

Kākāpō, I call them fluffy avacados

[@NickWeissMusic]

This is a very silly animal. Must be great camping when those things are booming for 6-8 hours a night. Hormonal flightless parrot. Actually a good name for a band!

[@gandalfandferg280]

Dudeeeee ok we talked about this for scholarship biology, I love this stuff... my name is also Henry.

[@badartgallery9322]

Wonderful old school name. I've never met a Henry.

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

A smal mistake, the kakapo wasn't the only known flying parrot. The extinct Broad-billed parrot native to mauritius also existed.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

From what I've gathered, Broad-brilled parrotss were weak fliers, but weren't entirely flightless. The recently discovered Heracles inexpectatus was however more than likely flightless given its size, and other extinct parrots yet to be discovered could've been flightless as well. But, in terms of extant and recently extinct parrots, Kakapo are the only flightless parrots.

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy well of corse is the kakapo the only recent flightless parrot, I just wanted to to talk about this mysterious spieces, and from what I could gather were they practical flightless, not even be able for short flights, similar to many breeds of geese or turkeys, not being able for short bursts. But even though the kakapo was allways one of my favourite animals, I coudn't take its name serious, since its name litteraly translates in german as something like shitbutt ^^

[@raulmt4]

I truly can't understand that a tree-dweling bird, as a parrot is, can turn into a nocturnal, terrestrial herbivore. The pressures they would have suffered must be incredibly strong I mean, a ground-based bird as a rail or swamphen could easily lose its flight ability, as they barely use it in not flightless species, so with no mammalian predators it is an easy step. But in a parrot, that is a geat flyer and arboreal, is truly amazing.

[@bkjeong4302]

Kakapo still climb trees.

[@Radekuroshi]

9:29 easy to imagine some antarctic ornithopods.

[@blooky102]

So this parrot has the same ecological niche as the dodo as a flightless bird that distributes seeds?

[@Broeckchen]

New Zealand Breath of the Wild!

[@liangshan1391]

this dude bites off the rubber part of my car. but I still love them. I'm crazy

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Those are Kea, not Kakapo.

[@tomatosaurusrex832]

Hey bro, amazing video. You taught me some seriously fascinating stuff about the Kakapo. I'm studying ecology and biodiversity at vic uni as i want to work with species like Kakapo. I'm currently reading a fantastic book about the Kea you should check out. It's called "Kea bird of Paradox " by Judy Diamond

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you for watching! And I'll be sure to read that at some point.

[@toddbennett7157]

An exquisite book!

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

9:30 Whatchu gonna do when da birb oinks at you? 🤔🤔

[@kyliecox1040]

cool!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thanks!

[@dromeoraptorpennato2931]

7:37 *ROUND*

[@diegorodriguesdesouza7389]

i don't believe that you forget to mention that one time that a kakapo tried to mate with Stephen Fry's head

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I didn't. Unfortunately, the video was already long, and given that it's the prime reason as to how they are known outside of New Zealand, I ultimately cut the segment.

[@LthrWrstlr1]

45 million years of evolution, why do they have wings at all? Never mind their flight feathers are still air foils. It's incredible and interesting to me.

[@ABoxIsMyHome]

Helps with balance and reducing their fall

[@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

Given how the kakapo evolved a herbivorous lifestyle, larger body size and flightlessness, could this mean that, if the kakapo were able to recover from the brink of extinction, could evolve into Moa-like bird types in the future?

[@krankarvolund7771]

In millions of years in the future ^^' And it would not be Moas, as they would probably keep wings for a long time ^^

[@Boyl151]

2:00 not Haasts eagle another harrier that went extinct

[@anthonyappleyard5688]

The Haast's eagle and the Eyles' harrier both went extinct.

[@Boyl151]

Anthony Appleyard Yep

[@Boyl151]

Anthony Appleyard I am from that country and study birds of prey

[@riichobamin7612]

How on Earth did Hast Eagle go extinct but this cute, land dwelling bird survived ?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Haast's eagles preyed upon Moa and other large birds, and once these animals declined, there were more pressured to find food, and when there prey became extinct, the Haast's eagles became extinct through starvation.

[@riichobamin7612]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy thanks a lot man ! And thank you for your work ! It is truly awesome ! Good luck and Godspeed.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

No problem! I'm glad you enjoy the videos. :)

[@riichobamin7612]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy the pleasure is all mine !

[@beebop9808]

The sound upsets my dogs too. lol

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It's interesting, as it was their distinctive odours and sounds that likely attracted dogs to them so easily in the first place... Then again, this is very close up, so if they were unfamiliar with the sound, they would definitely be confused.

[@beebop9808]

This pack of nuts I've got get excited to any new sound they've not heard before. lol Interesting the sound is very similar to the sound of ruffled grouse drumming with their wings in the beginning of their rhythm. Bouncing off of the hills in the mountains it's difficult sometimes to zero in on where the sound is coming from.

[@johnlucht3159]

I call them frogs of the parrot world because booming sound and swelling chest

[@1821-y6n]

7:32 *THICC*

[@TeethToothman]

❤❤❤

[@beckerchristian1505]

The name kakapo translates to "poopoo butt" in German, which is funny and the reason I wrote this comment.

[@borisborcic]

The kakapo, the tuatara, the kiwi, the kea, the toroa, the korora : all extant yet, if barely for some. Animals that reproduce like the Kakapo are called K-strategists;) The kakapo as presented also shines as a capsule of New Zealand. An Archipelago that changed Eon upon Humans. Ecosystems best understood as what came out of a brutal rape making the victim slave to invaders upon invaders. Elsewhere on the planet humans have left deep imprints, but on New Zealand the arrival of humans is yet recent enough that the dust hasn't completely settled. What's mind-boggling is the dimension of the catastrophe for the venerable and marvelous ecological equilibrium in its own biodiversity, predating us on the Archipelago. The New Zealand ecosystems have by the humans-headed invasion been chopped to pieces too fast for surprise collapses revealing keystones by their losses, therefore the kakapo is (much like the others listed) honorably situated to count as keystone for the telling. Makes contemporary natives of New Zealand kind of wiser, to be growing in such a spectacle of nature, does it not?

[@borisborcic]

Mammals broke into the New Zealand Archipelago with a Vengeance: Humans, and cohorts of other species, like wasps.

[@ethanfields1444]

Cute

[@jasonstanford656]

3:49 Kakapo Jump Scare

[@mickygill3606]

Most innocent Bird ever

[@BabyShenanigans]

Very informative video, but so many of the photos are such poor quality. =\

[@BabyShenanigans]

@Git 'er done I watch on a regular desktop computer, but okay. Sorry someone hurt you.

[@BabyShenanigans]

Git 'er done you are a sad, strange little person.

[@visi7754]

Shite Happens Plus Nice One! Cheers Xxx

[@frogglen6350]

You deserve more views. Sadly, most people don't care about facts. They're too busy watching onision or trendy garbage

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I hope to continue growing into the future to promote these fascinating topics.

[@mrs.schmenkman]

The trick is to get suggested and I find when I watch other documentary channels I get paleo guy suggestions. Plus I'm sure putting keywords help too. There is a HEWGE audience that use YT for documentary stuff. All I do all day is watch documentary stuff. I did a dinosaur search and that how I found paleo guy. He also shows up when I watch the channel that has all the Time Team videos.

[@exomake_mehorololo]

I think KZbin isn't working ideal either... It's weird how you get video suggestions sometimes that don't fit your interest at all...or how you never see a video that 1000% fits your interests in years. Many people might simply not see the videos

[@jerlee620]

This whole time I thought a Kakapo was a dog

[@nireland1742]

Amazing how som species can select the sex of their offspring using temperature or others can keep their eggs and a males sperm for prolonged period's. I'm still Amazed at people who see the ANIMAL KINGDOM below themselves but u Don't see Animals f.... king each other over for a Percentage 🤔 Fanx Ever So Much For Ur Hard Work Here, good vid, keep it up Hun 👍🏾😁😘💕🙏🏽🕊️🇬🇧

[@carmellitale-man2671]

Kaka paw is how it said

[@mrs.schmenkman]

This video is great for me, but average viewers will find the background music extremely irritating. I'm watching in iPad so I can barely hear it. Between the monotone voice and the ticking tick sound of the music it is extremely distracting. I'm one of the few who can ignore it because of my obsesssion for knowledge.

[@mrs.schmenkman]

and man this is packed with knowledge! Woot

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I tend to put the background music on the lower side as to not distract from what I am talking about, but I see what you mean for viewers using other devices.

[@mrs.schmenkman]

Henry the PaleoGuy I do love your stuff btw!!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you. I always look to improve my videos.

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

Why don’t you get to make a suggestion creating a KZbin Videos that’s all about an Extinct Parrot Species, called the Hercules Parrot, also known as the Squakzilla (Heracles inexpectatus) coming up next for a days or a few weeks?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@spinne1312]

In german kakapo actually means doodybutt!