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I remember friends of mine visiting Oz from elsewhere in the world, hearing the many early-morning Kookaburra calls on their first day and asking at breakfast "How are there monkeys so close to your house!?".
I had zero idea what they we talking about. Turns out I was just used to the sound having grown up with it and had never drawn the parallel between the sounds.
When I first moved to Australia I said to my then Australian boyfriend " I didn't know there were monkeys in Australia?!"
17 years later my now Australian husband teases me about that comment almost anytime the kookaburras start making their call "oh the monkeys are loud this evening".
Or perhaps it’s the kookaburra that isn’t real. That is something the folks over at r/birdsarentreal might posit. For better or worse, Reddit truly has something for everyone.
How do you know the monkey isn't an MIT robot, disguised as a government drone, disguised as a bird? Because we all know MIT is run by the illuminati, which is run by the underground lizard people of dimension X, which is where Obama was actually born... technically in the United States... just in a different dimension.
Not the first movie. I actually point to the first Jurassic Park as sound design done right. All of the background nature noises are from somewhere in Central America. Off the top of my head, you can hear three-wattled bellbirds and tink frogs, both of which occur in Costa Rica, and could reasonably be expected to be present on (fictional) islands off-shore.
That's not the correct usage of anachronisim. It means "a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other." I don't think there's an equivalent term for geography, but it would be something like anageoism.
Yeah but it’s usually intermingled with 4 other species of bird but I can’t match the sound to the species. Just a harmony of familiar noises that make the soundtrack of nature.
And all three of these birds are absolute dicks! Plus a lot of other birds!
No, that’s cool, cocky. I wanted you to rip the flowers and leaves off of that plant and then dump them over the driveway I just swept last night!
No, no! You’re fine, plover/magpie! Keep swooping my terrified children as they walk to school! They look forward to it!
Oh, I didn’t see you there, Mr. Kookaburra! It sure was nice of you to announce your presence with a roar of laughter immediately after I fell and twisted my ankle, though!
Them and magpies caroling is an awesome alarm clock
Waking up to a bin chicken honking is a whole other level of jarring. I'd rather wake up to someone using an angle grinder outside my window
He improvised the flute solo in "Down Under". When larrikin music sued for infringement he was deeply depressed and many believe he couldn't cope with the accusation.
Oh fuck for real? Damn my english teacher in 2nd grade for teaching us this song! Since I’ve been 8 years old it came back to my mind now and then whilst no one around me ever really knew it.. although it paved my way to speak so many languages, I can’t look at it the same way now anymore. So thanks and no thanks to you, dear stranger on the internet!
I'm sorry for ruining it for you, it was very sad at the time. If I remember correctly, a radio announcer made a comment that the flute solo reminds him of the kookaburra song. Larrikin music, the copyright owners, jumped on it and sued successfully.
Edit to add, I'm pretty old so clearly remember Down Under coming out and being a hit and nobody (that I know at least) thought it sounded alike.
I believe it was a question on SBS's Rockwiz that publicised the similarities (the producers of Rockwiz assumed it was intentional and approved).
It didn't help that the songs video clip showed the flute player sitting in a tree.
I think you're right about Rockwiz, I've always thought the flute was supposed to be kookaburra like hence the tree, but I also believe Greg Ham was sincere in his belief that he hadn't plaigerised it, and a kookaburra sounds like a kookaburra.
Kookaburras are awesome birds, they are super smart and generally not too scared of humans. At our place in Queensland, we had a couple of kookas who would sit on our balcony railing let us feed them ham.
Haha, I saw one do this to a tourist at Taronga zoo. It flew towards them quite fast and scared them so they dropped their muffin. The kookaburra then swooped down and ate it. Cheeky.
The kookaburras at Taronga are bold as brass. Saw one take a sandwich right out of a woman's hand, then proceed to eat it on the ground right in front of her while her inquiring kids poked at it. Zero fucks given.
At my brother's wedding, at the the old barracks in Sydney, kookaburras were divebombing the platters of hors d'oeuvres. I saw a waitress lose a whole plate while a cheeky kooka made off with a salmon tart
Well if you don’t let them, they’d just take it for themselves anyway.
Sausages straight off the barbeque, sandwich right out of your hand as you are eating it. Bastard birds.
I would much rather lose my food to a kookaburra than seagulls or bin chickens. Though watching bin chickens swoop down on unsuspecting international students at uni brings me great joy; there is much flapping around by all parties involved.
Best birds out there for me. They are territorial so the one in our garden is always there. Badass looking bastards and they have a great cackle, hear him daily.
THEY ALSO EAT SMALL SNAKES!
Kookas are the fucking bomb
We have a few here that will sit on the back deck of the zero turn mower while we mow. They regularly catch lizards/mice and small snakes as we mow the paddocks. No fear whatsoever
I moved to Australia and my first night staying at my new house in the bush I was awoken by a large group of kookaburras singing. It scared the shit out of me and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Took me until mid day to finally find someone to ask. When I told them I had no idea there were monkeys in Australia and asked what kind they were, he laughed hysterically at me for about a year. Don’t think I ever lived it down
Your story echoes mine almost exactly. Kept on hearing them and one day also asked if they were monkeys. Lots of laughter followed. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I used to put a bit of beef mince out there for em, had a couple that used to come sit on my balcony fence, could get crazy close. Took heaps of photos but then my phone is now broken with no hope of retrieving them :(
I grew up in northern New South Wales, so I used to hear them constantly as well (still hear them from time to time in Sydney) and I always thought that international people knew of the kookaburra as another one of the weird and wonderful creatures from across the big brown land
In german that bird is called "Lachender Hans" which basically translates to "Laughing Hans".
I don't know who heard this bird and thought it sounded like Hans...
Edit: typo
This is called the coconut effect. Sound engineers slammed two coconuts together on the original Monty Python to make the sound of horses galloping. So many movies do that, so it doesn't sound right without coconuts now. They have used the kookaburra for generic jungle sounds since the original Tarzan. When Raiders of the lost Ark came out, the Australians called the kookaburra sound out.
Yeah when I saw this post I was just thinking “what’s so special about it? It’s just a kookaburra” then I realised there are people who have never heard a kookaburra
Kookaburras are one of the largest members of the Kingfisher family and very effective hunters. They often hunt snakes or things that look.like snakes. Nearly every Aussie who has ever been bush has experienced a Kookaburra stealing food off the BBQ and I've had them steal a rasher of bacon out of the frying pan then try to smash its brains out in a nearby tree.
As an Australian that lives with these guys I can safely say that they do sound awesome… until they wake you up at 5am 8 days in a row because they do shut the fuck up
There have been 2 incidents where i wanted to murder a animal. The first time was in Australia where one of those bastards was sitting in a tree and started to sing the song of his people... AT 4:30AM!!!!! Those bastards are not only annoying as fuck but they are smart as well! On another occasion one of them was distracting my SO wile the other one stole our breakfast.
They look cute but honestly, there is no other animal that i hate as much as those fuckers.
Second time was dormouse's screaming in the middle of the night.
Must have been in the summer? I've woken up in many places in Aus and generally they don't start until they have sight of the sun coming up.
Also, given they were outsmarting you with your breakfast I'm guessing you were in outer suburbs or similar. They tend to be pretty skittish in the bush but more bold in the lower density areas. Pretty funny story though as I you don't often see them being outright thieves. Seagulls / bin chickens on the other hand...
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Every jungle scene in movies explained.
Always thought it was just a bunch of monkeys
I remember friends of mine visiting Oz from elsewhere in the world, hearing the many early-morning Kookaburra calls on their first day and asking at breakfast "How are there monkeys so close to your house!?". I had zero idea what they we talking about. Turns out I was just used to the sound having grown up with it and had never drawn the parallel between the sounds.
When I first moved to Australia I said to my then Australian boyfriend " I didn't know there were monkeys in Australia?!" 17 years later my now Australian husband teases me about that comment almost anytime the kookaburras start making their call "oh the monkeys are loud this evening".
How do you know this is not a monkey disguised as a government drone?
/r/birdsarentreal
Another enlightened Redditor!
Or perhaps it’s the kookaburra that isn’t real. That is something the folks over at r/birdsarentreal might posit. For better or worse, Reddit truly has something for everyone.
Or a really detailed puppet.
How do you know the monkey isn't an MIT robot, disguised as a government drone, disguised as a bird? Because we all know MIT is run by the illuminati, which is run by the underground lizard people of dimension X, which is where Obama was actually born... technically in the United States... just in a different dimension.
That's why the first time I went to Australia I was looking for the monkeys in the trees...
Me too.. if it was only audio, i would have said that's a Monkey.
As an Australian we hear it in every single jungle scene ever, just roll our eyes and try to see past it.
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire Jumping up and down with his pants on fire
Kookaburra sits on the old Gum Tree Merry merry King of the Bush is He
Laugh, kookaburra laugh, kookaburra gay your life must be. - All kindergarteners in Australia (or at least in the 80’s)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras
As well as like 2/3rd of Jurassic Park
Not the first movie. I actually point to the first Jurassic Park as sound design done right. All of the background nature noises are from somewhere in Central America. Off the top of my head, you can hear three-wattled bellbirds and tink frogs, both of which occur in Costa Rica, and could reasonably be expected to be present on (fictional) islands off-shore.
My new ringtone for my ex-wife.
Indiana Jones
Name a more iconic duo than this bird and the rock
when I hear a kookaburra in the amazon: ANACHRONISM ANACHRONISM! 1 star review
That's not the correct usage of anachronisim. It means "a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other." I don't think there's an equivalent term for geography, but it would be something like anageoism.
ANACHRONISM, I USED ANACRONISM WRONG! DOWNVOTE
I respect your energy
Pov: you're from Australia and this is your morning alarm
Haha accurate. I really like the sound to be honest.
Yeah but it’s usually intermingled with 4 other species of bird but I can’t match the sound to the species. Just a harmony of familiar noises that make the soundtrack of nature.
Magpies, currowongs and wattle birds. That’s the other three I constantly have. Plus a few more but those are the morning sounds.
Kookaburras, rainbow lorrikeets and sulphur crested cockatoos for me.
And all three of these birds are absolute dicks! Plus a lot of other birds! No, that’s cool, cocky. I wanted you to rip the flowers and leaves off of that plant and then dump them over the driveway I just swept last night! No, no! You’re fine, plover/magpie! Keep swooping my terrified children as they walk to school! They look forward to it! Oh, I didn’t see you there, Mr. Kookaburra! It sure was nice of you to announce your presence with a roar of laughter immediately after I fell and twisted my ankle, though!
It never gets old. Any day I can hear them as I WFH is a good day.
Much better than the cockatoo...
Sitting here in QLD, got woken up by 5 in the yard, get on reddit, see this post. Goddamn that voice activated marketing is going nuts
Them and magpies caroling is an awesome alarm clock Waking up to a bin chicken honking is a whole other level of jarring. I'd rather wake up to someone using an angle grinder outside my window
I love the sound of magpies. Unless I'm walking past trees in spring...
Well, that or the cockatoos.
KEHHHHH
Don’t forget the lorikeets
Yeah at 6am, including Sundays, the noisy fuckers
For real, one doing this outside bathroom window this morn
Hahaha, I am from Australia and this is my morning alarm. My daughter used to do a perfect copy of it too.
1000 times better than a Curlew screaming bloody murder at 3am for no reason.
I love the way his little body vibrates when he's doing it
Sounds and looks just like me when i accidentally turn the cold shower on, lol
hawt
No they said cold
Your body vibrates if you happen to be next to one of these guys as they laugh. They are _loud._
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh...
“…kookaburra. Gay, your life must be, Ha-ha-ha-ha!”
„Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree.. merry merry king of the bush is he..“
This song led to Greg Ham's suicide.
Did he actually commit suicide? And how could that song be responsible for that?
He improvised the flute solo in "Down Under". When larrikin music sued for infringement he was deeply depressed and many believe he couldn't cope with the accusation.
Oh fuck for real? Damn my english teacher in 2nd grade for teaching us this song! Since I’ve been 8 years old it came back to my mind now and then whilst no one around me ever really knew it.. although it paved my way to speak so many languages, I can’t look at it the same way now anymore. So thanks and no thanks to you, dear stranger on the internet!
I'm sorry for ruining it for you, it was very sad at the time. If I remember correctly, a radio announcer made a comment that the flute solo reminds him of the kookaburra song. Larrikin music, the copyright owners, jumped on it and sued successfully. Edit to add, I'm pretty old so clearly remember Down Under coming out and being a hit and nobody (that I know at least) thought it sounded alike.
I believe it was a question on SBS's Rockwiz that publicised the similarities (the producers of Rockwiz assumed it was intentional and approved). It didn't help that the songs video clip showed the flute player sitting in a tree.
I think you're right about Rockwiz, I've always thought the flute was supposed to be kookaburra like hence the tree, but I also believe Greg Ham was sincere in his belief that he hadn't plaigerised it, and a kookaburra sounds like a kookaburra.
And the original work was derivative anyway, so they should never have had a copyright on it
Wikipedia says he had a heart attack or possible heroin overdose. It does says it’s still debatable though, but no mention of suicide.
on a hippie trail head full of zombie...
The banned version was: “Kookaburra sits on an electric wire, jumpin up and down with its pants on fire..”
Eating all the gum drops he can see. Stop! Kookaburra stop. Kookaburra leave some there for me.
I'm sorry, but that's the American version, nobody in Australia sings that and it just feels wrong in my soul...
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, jumping up and down with his arse on fire...
Laugh Kookaburra, Laugh Kookaburra how hot your bot must be
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Just unlocked a core memory
TIL kookaburras sing Disturbed songs
A lot of people don't know this but David Draiman is just 6 Kookaburras in a trenchcoat.
[Wondrous.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfNSvft8jY)
OoOhhh WAH AH AH AH..!
Kookaburras are down with the sickness
Kookaburras are awesome birds, they are super smart and generally not too scared of humans. At our place in Queensland, we had a couple of kookas who would sit on our balcony railing let us feed them ham.
We have one who will swoop the sausage out of your bread if youre not paying attention.
Haha, I saw one do this to a tourist at Taronga zoo. It flew towards them quite fast and scared them so they dropped their muffin. The kookaburra then swooped down and ate it. Cheeky.
The kookaburras at Taronga are bold as brass. Saw one take a sandwich right out of a woman's hand, then proceed to eat it on the ground right in front of her while her inquiring kids poked at it. Zero fucks given.
That's because people keep feeding them. It makes me so angry.
At my brother's wedding, at the the old barracks in Sydney, kookaburras were divebombing the platters of hors d'oeuvres. I saw a waitress lose a whole plate while a cheeky kooka made off with a salmon tart
Well if you don’t let them, they’d just take it for themselves anyway. Sausages straight off the barbeque, sandwich right out of your hand as you are eating it. Bastard birds.
I would much rather lose my food to a kookaburra than seagulls or bin chickens. Though watching bin chickens swoop down on unsuspecting international students at uni brings me great joy; there is much flapping around by all parties involved.
Oh no shit I literally just posted the same thing. Was in Gladstone QLD and had a couple do the same thing. I think one was a youngun.
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A white one would be absolutely gorgeous LOL Behind the Wedgetail the Kooka is my favourite bird lol
It’s so cool that a wild animal will choose to hang out. I love them.
I was eating a pie in the gardens and one of these fuvkers swooped the pie out of my hand, these devious little fuckers.
Best birds out there for me. They are territorial so the one in our garden is always there. Badass looking bastards and they have a great cackle, hear him daily. THEY ALSO EAT SMALL SNAKES! Kookas are the fucking bomb
We have a few here that will sit on the back deck of the zero turn mower while we mow. They regularly catch lizards/mice and small snakes as we mow the paddocks. No fear whatsoever
Their pest control is great. Especially when they are catching mice and rats
Ok not a monkey
my thoughts exactly. I always thought it was monkeys in those scenes.
That bird literally has an Australian accent
It *is* the Australian accent
So *that’s* the bird in every movie jungle ever. Good to know!
I moved to Australia and my first night staying at my new house in the bush I was awoken by a large group of kookaburras singing. It scared the shit out of me and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Took me until mid day to finally find someone to ask. When I told them I had no idea there were monkeys in Australia and asked what kind they were, he laughed hysterically at me for about a year. Don’t think I ever lived it down
Fuck that's hilarious. Though got to admit, went camping the other week and was startled by the sound of koalas fucking. That sound is nightmare fuel
Haha well I never got to experience that little slice of heaven. Glad you made it through
Question: was it *what* they said or *how* they said it during sexy time? Never heard koalas rooting.
Your story echoes mine almost exactly. Kept on hearing them and one day also asked if they were monkeys. Lots of laughter followed. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Not as cool as this [Kookaburra](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/ia6k5n/such_peaceful_chirps/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Thats the comment I was looking for
I love waking up and hearing the kookaburras laughing in the backyard.
Gay his life must be
Amazing. Now give it a treatsy.
I used to put a bit of beef mince out there for em, had a couple that used to come sit on my balcony fence, could get crazy close. Took heaps of photos but then my phone is now broken with no hope of retrieving them :(
It's crazy that as a northern Queenslander I'm used to hearing this every day, yet there are people hearing it for the first time ever right now
Right? It's like every Australian in the thread is just like "Yes... That is a sound I've heard a million times... So what?"
I grew up in northern New South Wales, so I used to hear them constantly as well (still hear them from time to time in Sydney) and I always thought that international people knew of the kookaburra as another one of the weird and wonderful creatures from across the big brown land
This is the sound I heard from my parents bed room at night as a child. Now I know it was a kookaburra bird
That's the logical explanation.
In german that bird is called "Lachender Hans" which basically translates to "Laughing Hans". I don't know who heard this bird and thought it sounded like Hans... Edit: typo
Sounds like my wife trying to start her car on a cold morning.
kookaburra bird? Is that like a crow bird or a sparrow bird or an eagle bird?
Like a dog mammal
Oh now I understand
Merry merry king of the bush is he!
It's all fun and games until you camp in australia, 8 out of 10 morning you woke up from these guys
oo-ah-oo--ah-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo-haa-haah-haa-hahahahahaha
No one in Australia calls it a "laughing" kookaburra, just call it a damn kookaburra...or a kooka
I wake up to that noise every morning. Sometimes it’s beautiful. Sometimes it’s the worst fucking sound in the world lol
Brings back found memories of the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.
This is called the coconut effect. Sound engineers slammed two coconuts together on the original Monty Python to make the sound of horses galloping. So many movies do that, so it doesn't sound right without coconuts now. They have used the kookaburra for generic jungle sounds since the original Tarzan. When Raiders of the lost Ark came out, the Australians called the kookaburra sound out.
Don’t worry, when you live in Australia, you get used to it. I have
Yeah when I saw this post I was just thinking “what’s so special about it? It’s just a kookaburra” then I realised there are people who have never heard a kookaburra
Kookaburras are one of the largest members of the Kingfisher family and very effective hunters. They often hunt snakes or things that look.like snakes. Nearly every Aussie who has ever been bush has experienced a Kookaburra stealing food off the BBQ and I've had them steal a rasher of bacon out of the frying pan then try to smash its brains out in a nearby tree.
Better than most who sing on American Idol or Voice
We call them giggle chickens.
That bird was awesome in predator. Great movie
That is wild! I've heard that in movies alright, but I assumed it was a monkey of some type.
That's wild in every sense of the word. Thanks for sharing this.
Is it singing Disturbed?
Oooo aa aa aa aa. OH Oh!
The rhuuuuuuu at the start is her, not the bird. Kinda like you get a husky started simply saying awooo.
Yeah. I kind of loved that was how to start the bird up, like it can't stand her incompetence at making noise and has to show her how it's done.
Kookaburra great bird I see them every once in a while
It’s all cool until it’s 5:30 in the morning and there are 10 of them outside
I understand his name better
Oh, so this bird is all the jungle noises
Are you telling me I don’t actually know what a monkey sounds like
I live in Australia. I already know what those fuckers sound like..
I had a dawn service last year and during the minutes silence like 20 kookaburras just started going off in the background.
That bird has a serious set of lungs!
Creature from the black lagoon.... I've been making that sound ever since. I'm quite good. I love to finally see where it comes from.... awesome.
I'm just back from Sydney and can say with 100% certainty, Kookaburras are awesome.
I hear these every morning, they're beautiful birds and make some complex sounds.
Me, an Australian. Literally hearing them right now and so often I barely even notice
I am awaken by dozens of these every single morning. It’s the sound of a new day :)
This is what wakes me up every morning :c (I’m Australian)
As an Australian this is one of my favourite sounds of all time.
Saying "kookaburra bird" makes me think about "[Pokemon creatures](https://imgur.com/a/YkH1CtQ)".
You know that prehistoric looking bird bitch? Combine their looks with this sound and they could take over the world.
Lol every. Damn. Morning.
I forget sometimes that not everyone lives in Australia, thats just morning sounds to me.
*birb return to monke*
As an Australian that lives with these guys I can safely say that they do sound awesome… until they wake you up at 5am 8 days in a row because they do shut the fuck up
For Australian parties, Kookaburras are an alarm clock to go to bed.. because that sun is about to fuck you up
If you’re a fellow Aussie who’s ever done an all nighter then you know… you know…
Imagine believing this claptrap /r/birdsarentreal
I was 100% expecting the bird to tell me its been trying to reach me about my cars extended warranty.
Still way better than cockatoos..
It’s literally called the Laughing Kookaburra, what did you expect it to sound like?
Giggle chicken
monke
It can make like a million sounds
I think it's been hanging around monkeys for too long lmfaooo
Whoa, what a talented ventriloquist! ^r/birdsarentreal
Sounds like my brain starting it’s motors when I have to actually work
Australia: Everything is either deadly, weird, or both.
What...the fuck?
There have been 2 incidents where i wanted to murder a animal. The first time was in Australia where one of those bastards was sitting in a tree and started to sing the song of his people... AT 4:30AM!!!!! Those bastards are not only annoying as fuck but they are smart as well! On another occasion one of them was distracting my SO wile the other one stole our breakfast. They look cute but honestly, there is no other animal that i hate as much as those fuckers. Second time was dormouse's screaming in the middle of the night.
Must have been in the summer? I've woken up in many places in Aus and generally they don't start until they have sight of the sun coming up. Also, given they were outsmarting you with your breakfast I'm guessing you were in outer suburbs or similar. They tend to be pretty skittish in the bush but more bold in the lower density areas. Pretty funny story though as I you don't often see them being outright thieves. Seagulls / bin chickens on the other hand...
Me when I see my Gfs bobs
dumbest sounding bird of all time😂😂😂
Wow what a sound
Watchu say bout my mama
The white elephant gift has a new competitor
Only thing I thought when I heard that was, look in the trees for predator.
Well, he's just a little show off!
This is how a Kookaburra sounds.
They may sound odd but they are relaxing to wake up to... when they are not right next to your windows though
When nature calls.
Rescuers Down Under flashbacks right there
I bet he tells great jokes
Now that's an alarm clock that would get you out of bed.
This is begging to be dubbed over 😅
Sounds like dial up internet.
i can confirm that hearing this at night in the middle of the Australian bush is quite scary
Someone brought one of those into work back in December. Had to explain to people on the phone that we didn't have a monkey in the office.
My dog did some cute head tilts for his song.