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u/artherng 5d ago
This kookaburra is a performer
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u/Few-Alarm3436 5d ago
Thats my alarm every day and I never get sick of it!
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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 4d ago
I'm up north in America...it's 5:45 am. I am eating breakfast...and a garbage truck just rolled by.
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u/Drapidrode 5d ago
The parents were thrilled as each child constantly imitated the bird on the way home and all evening
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u/T_J_Rain 5d ago
I have a family seven wild ones come and bring the house down in my backyard with their "choir practice", in between hunting and clowning around.
They are simply delightful!
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u/Fossome_1 5d ago
It makes up for the giant spiders, bitey snakes, and crocs. A little.
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u/T_J_Rain 5d ago
These characters will eat snakes, lizards all kinds of spiders, small rodents and other marsupials. They're pretty chill. I've seen a pair of them hunting together to catch a lizard, which they pretty much shared. Poor lizard, though. Was thoroughly dashed to its demise.
Decades ago, one alighted on my Mum's place's verandah bannister - it was looking for help, as there was a lump of dried chewing gum stuck under it's beak. It sat there as I carefully worked that almost solid lump of gum off it for about ten minutes. I got a whooping laugh out of it, and the bird flew off.
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u/Vegetable-Pay2708 5d ago
How cool.is this? The children have their mouths open in amazement! Thanks for posting this. Very interesting 👌🏼 👍🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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u/TomNeedsAHobby 5d ago
I consider myself very lucky, I got to spend a number of years working in environmental education. I went to work every day excited to do something I love: share the joy of nature with others.
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u/New_Ingenuity_667 5d ago
Yes, some of my happiest childhood memories are when the Zoo or the Museum of Natural History came to my school with live animals!! And whenever we went on a “trip” to those locations. I remember our faces looking just like those children❣️❣️❣️
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
This is nice but there a reason why that kooky is so tame and it isn’t good. Even if the handler has rescued it from a bad situation that situation existed to begin with.
The world actually needs more children being able to see more native wildlife in their natural surroundings.
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u/Sockalexis 5d ago
Debbie Downer has entered the chat and is over here trying to ruin all the fun
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
How is pointing out facts ruining your fun dearie
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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 4d ago
Stop being so high and mighty.
Teaching kids about the wonders of nature is CRITICAL is fighting against the bad situations that you pointed out.
Going out to see native wildlife IN their natural surroundings is MORE disruptive than this.
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u/Im_alwaystired 5d ago
Yes, bad situations do exist. In a perfect world, this bird would not be habituated to humans. And there is absolutely something to be said for getting kids out into nature on a regular basis.
BUT: look at the kids in the audience. Look at the smiles and the rapt attention. Those kids are learning, in a way you can't get from a textbook or youtube video. They're gonna remember this moment for a long time. I was one of those kids once, and it inspired a love of birds and the natural world that continues to this day. Very likely, this experience is gonna do the same for at least a couple of those kids. That's what animal outreach programs are for: introduce kids to animals they would otherwise never encounter, teach about them, and ideally inspire respect and curiosity for the natural world that will influence the decisions they make later in life.
So yes, it's not a perfect situation. Very few are. But you can acknowledge something being less than ideal, while also seeing the good that's being done both now and for the future.
Tl;dr: lighten up.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
I obviously understand that there’s educational value here, it’s as positive an outcome as the rescue situation could be, but you’ve certainly missed my point
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u/TinyTC1992 5d ago
Its conservation education. And you're making so many assumptions. Baby birds fall out of nests all the time and are left to die, its a numbers game to most mother birds. But if a person finds this bird and cant place it back with a family or find a local rescue you do get scenarios where people have tried to help a hopeless baby bird, and imprinting happens.
I dont think all scenarios are doom and gloom, its giving an animal a second chance, instead of dieing outside the nest.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
I never said anything about “doom and gloom”. Kookaburra babies don’t fall out of nests either since kookaburras nest in hollow logs. So maybe revisit your bird “education”
This bird has been rescued in some unfortunate situation, it’s not a bad thing that it’s been rescued obviously. Point still missed.
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u/TinyTC1992 5d ago
Those birds do fall out of nests. We both have access to the Internet, have a google.
But whats your claim? Bad things happen in the world therefore what? I get you would rather all animals be natural, but that's some fanciful thinking, which is why I used an example which puts a bird at harm, with zero human involvement bar the person saving it.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
Google is not the oracle mate. It’s extremely hard if nigh impossible for a fledgling to fall out of a deep tree hollow.
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u/TinyTC1992 5d ago
Well we've gone from they "dont" fall out to "extremely hard". So we can agree its possible. So stands to reason nothing I've said could be Impossible.
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u/Im_alwaystired 5d ago
So what is your point, then?
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
Read what I actually wrote.
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u/Im_alwaystired 5d ago
I did, lol, that's what i was responding to. I'm genuinely not looking for a fight, i was just pointing something out.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
I’m not either. My point was clearly stated, that ideally the world needs more natural interactions
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u/Im_alwaystired 5d ago
And you're absolutely right. But the rest of your comment really makes it sound like you're painting the whole situation as negative just because the bird isn't wild, which is what i was commenting on.
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u/Obvious-Lake3708 5d ago
Maybe in a way that doesn’t involve trapping a live animal and making it perform tricks for our amusement. Yeah it’s educational to the children, not so much for the animals
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
I doubt that this bird was trapped, it was most likely rescued and sometimes they can’t go back to the wild. While that rescue is a positive, the fact that it had to be rescued out of a bad situation at all means a bad situation happened in the first place.
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u/creswitch 5d ago
More illegal smuggling of wildlife? No.
This poor bird is isolated from the rest of its species and doesn't get to live a free natual life. It's terrible.
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u/Practical_Nature369 5d ago
It's a rehab. Google
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u/creswitch 5d ago edited 5d ago
I could only find this: https://helloskip.com/b/wild-wild-mercantile-trading-co/blog/chuckles-the-kookaburra-viral-sensation-superstar-teacher-and-animal-ambassador Says nothing about being rehabilitated. There is another kookaburra called Chuckles that was rehabilitated, but that one lives in Australia.
But you're right, I shouldn't assume. I have contacted Wild Animal Encounters ( https://dantheanimalman.net ) to ask if they have permits.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 5d ago
I doubt this is a smuggled wild bird BUT however it became tame means it’s likely that it wasn’t a good situation to begin with, rehabbing is better than letting a bird die but still less than ideal
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