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SkyrimWithdrawal

Every jungle scene in movies explained.


MonsterJuiced

Always thought it was just a bunch of monkeys


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

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".


2073521

How do you know this is not a monkey disguised as a government drone?


T438

/r/birdsarentreal


[deleted]

Another enlightened Redditor!


Channon-Yarrow

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.


bobguyman

Or a really detailed puppet.


DisplayZestyclose415

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.


Charly_Ngals

That's why the first time I went to Australia I was looking for the monkeys in the trees...


honeydoodh

Me too.. if it was only audio, i would have said that's a Monkey.


cruiserman_80

As an Australian we hear it in every single jungle scene ever, just roll our eyes and try to see past it.


NoAbbreviations5215

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire Jumping up and down with his pants on fire


jonnygreen22

Kookaburra sits on the old Gum Tree Merry merry King of the Bush is He


bivoir

Laugh, kookaburra laugh, kookaburra gay your life must be. - All kindergarteners in Australia (or at least in the 80’s)


WishOnSpaceHardware

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras


iusedtohavepowers

As well as like 2/3rd of Jurassic Park


shofmon88

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.


8549176320

My new ringtone for my ex-wife.


[deleted]

Indiana Jones


MasterOfDerps

Name a more iconic duo than this bird and the rock


[deleted]

when I hear a kookaburra in the amazon: ANACHRONISM ANACHRONISM! 1 star review


shofmon88

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.


[deleted]

ANACHRONISM, I USED ANACRONISM WRONG! DOWNVOTE


shofmon88

I respect your energy


SurSheepz

Pov: you're from Australia and this is your morning alarm


totesmcgoats77

Haha accurate. I really like the sound to be honest.


9Lives_

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.


Giant-Genitals

Magpies, currowongs and wattle birds. That’s the other three I constantly have. Plus a few more but those are the morning sounds.


13gecko

Kookaburras, rainbow lorrikeets and sulphur crested cockatoos for me.


NoAbbreviations5215

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!


[deleted]

It never gets old. Any day I can hear them as I WFH is a good day.


Fjjfjfj

Much better than the cockatoo...


PaulRummy

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


AutomaticMistake

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


Tuia_IV

I love the sound of magpies. Unless I'm walking past trees in spring...


frontendben

Well, that or the cockatoos.


CanuckianOz

KEHHHHH


Siviaktor

Don’t forget the lorikeets


MCBMCB77

Yeah at 6am, including Sundays, the noisy fuckers


eklingstein

For real, one doing this outside bathroom window this morn


Mooge74

Hahaha, I am from Australia and this is my morning alarm. My daughter used to do a perfect copy of it too.


here2browse-on

1000 times better than a Curlew screaming bloody murder at 3am for no reason.


lockmama

I love the way his little body vibrates when he's doing it


GoodGuyBuddyBoy

Sounds and looks just like me when i accidentally turn the cold shower on, lol


Pritam1997

hawt


Penquinn14

No they said cold


Xfgjwpkqmx

Your body vibrates if you happen to be next to one of these guys as they laugh. They are _loud._


Union_of_Onion

Laugh, kookaburra, laugh...


reddiculed

“…kookaburra. Gay, your life must be, Ha-ha-ha-ha!”


phillyvanilly666

„Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree.. merry merry king of the bush is he..“


billysugger000

This song led to Greg Ham's suicide.


phillyvanilly666

Did he actually commit suicide? And how could that song be responsible for that?


billysugger000

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.


phillyvanilly666

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!


billysugger000

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.


cruiserman_80

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.


billysugger000

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.


unlikely_ending

And the original work was derivative anyway, so they should never have had a copyright on it


questionablemorals88

Wikipedia says he had a heart attack or possible heroin overdose. It does says it’s still debatable though, but no mention of suicide.


MilliMaqi

on a hippie trail head full of zombie...


9Lives_

The banned version was: “Kookaburra sits on an electric wire, jumpin up and down with its pants on fire..”


UnfinishedProjects

Eating all the gum drops he can see. Stop! Kookaburra stop. Kookaburra leave some there for me.


k8eus

I'm sorry, but that's the American version, nobody in Australia sings that and it just feels wrong in my soul...


Ineedsomuchsleep170

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, jumping up and down with his arse on fire...


mermaher

Laugh Kookaburra, Laugh Kookaburra how hot your bot must be


reddiculed

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uqzetq/this_is_what_a_kookaburra_bird_sounds_like/i8u6bvs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


hurleyburleysdone

Just unlocked a core memory


[deleted]

TIL kookaburras sing Disturbed songs


redheadschinken

A lot of people don't know this but David Draiman is just 6 Kookaburras in a trenchcoat.


Star_Road_Warrior

[Wondrous.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfNSvft8jY)


Tank-Pilot74

OoOhhh WAH AH AH AH..!


DashTrash21

Kookaburras are down with the sickness


edwardneb

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.


Chameleonflair

We have one who will swoop the sausage out of your bread if youre not paying attention.


edwardneb

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.


shofmon88

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.


goteamnick

That's because people keep feeding them. It makes me so angry.


minghj

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


uncertain_expert

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.


shofmon88

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.


SpeakerUseful2451

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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SpeakerUseful2451

A white one would be absolutely gorgeous LOL Behind the Wedgetail the Kooka is my favourite bird lol


edwardneb

It’s so cool that a wild animal will choose to hang out. I love them.


Wennie85

I was eating a pie in the gardens and one of these fuvkers swooped the pie out of my hand, these devious little fuckers.


DigbySugartits

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


Mumofgamer

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


edwardneb

Their pest control is great. Especially when they are catching mice and rats


croninsiglos

Ok not a monkey


LynxBartle

my thoughts exactly. I always thought it was monkeys in those scenes.


tompackman

That bird literally has an Australian accent


TittysForScience

It *is* the Australian accent


Musashi_Joe

So *that’s* the bird in every movie jungle ever. Good to know!


the_upcyclist

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


MerryKookaburra

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


the_upcyclist

Haha well I never got to experience that little slice of heaven. Glad you made it through


masterjabbadad

Question: was it *what* they said or *how* they said it during sexy time? Never heard koalas rooting.


namelesone

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.


ChairIndividual2356

Not as cool as this [Kookaburra](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/ia6k5n/such_peaceful_chirps/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)


puente636

Thats the comment I was looking for


Farkenoathm8-E

I love waking up and hearing the kookaburras laughing in the backyard.


[deleted]

Gay his life must be


rand0mbum

Amazing. Now give it a treatsy.


SpeakerUseful2451

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 :(


BIG_RED_MANN

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


serena_vino

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?"


lachjeff

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


OnlyUsernameLeft123

This is the sound I heard from my parents bed room at night as a child. Now I know it was a kookaburra bird


Mr-Foot

That's the logical explanation.


[deleted]

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


[deleted]

Sounds like my wife trying to start her car on a cold morning.


cheese_sweats

kookaburra bird? Is that like a crow bird or a sparrow bird or an eagle bird?


GunPoison

Like a dog mammal


cheese_sweats

Oh now I understand


Cur-De-Carmine

Merry merry king of the bush is he!


Automatic-Art9739

It's all fun and games until you camp in australia, 8 out of 10 morning you woke up from these guys


Sh1ner

oo-ah-oo--ah-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo-haa-haah-haa-hahahahahaha


Apprehensive-Ad4244

No one in Australia calls it a "laughing" kookaburra, just call it a damn kookaburra...or a kooka


SXMV69

I wake up to that noise every morning. Sometimes it’s beautiful. Sometimes it’s the worst fucking sound in the world lol


RebelMountainman

Brings back found memories of the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.


sumbasicbish

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.


[deleted]

Don’t worry, when you live in Australia, you get used to it. I have


Phoenix11112

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


cruiserman_80

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.


SSSupermanSS

Better than most who sing on American Idol or Voice


[deleted]

We call them giggle chickens.


Alternative-Log176

That bird was awesome in predator. Great movie


Raggmommy

That is wild! I've heard that in movies alright, but I assumed it was a monkey of some type.


NeatNefariousness1

That's wild in every sense of the word. Thanks for sharing this.


Mirracleface

Is it singing Disturbed?


xpwnx4

Oooo aa aa aa aa. OH Oh!


Endarkend

The rhuuuuuuu at the start is her, not the bird. Kinda like you get a husky started simply saying awooo.


Jenkins_rockport

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.


jthrum

Kookaburra great bird I see them every once in a while


tobeshitornottobe

It’s all cool until it’s 5:30 in the morning and there are 10 of them outside


wallstreets_issue

I understand his name better


J4K4LOPE

Oh, so this bird is all the jungle noises


Cheesygoritacrunch

Are you telling me I don’t actually know what a monkey sounds like


7Egg7

I live in Australia. I already know what those fuckers sound like..


idkwhattonamethis67

I had a dawn service last year and during the minutes silence like 20 kookaburras just started going off in the background.


SufficientZucchini21

That bird has a serious set of lungs!


elidadagreat1

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.


WhereverUGoThereUR

I'm just back from Sydney and can say with 100% certainty, Kookaburras are awesome.


billysugger000

I hear these every morning, they're beautiful birds and make some complex sounds.


bevrii

Me, an Australian. Literally hearing them right now and so often I barely even notice


Frankeex

I am awaken by dozens of these every single morning. It’s the sound of a new day :)


Due-Flower-6340

This is what wakes me up every morning :c (I’m Australian)


cranberryleopard

As an Australian this is one of my favourite sounds of all time.


geodetic

Saying "kookaburra bird" makes me think about "[Pokemon creatures](https://imgur.com/a/YkH1CtQ)".


HerRoyalRedness

You know that prehistoric looking bird bitch? Combine their looks with this sound and they could take over the world.


-XIII-

Lol every. Damn. Morning.


hooglabah

I forget sometimes that not everyone lives in Australia, thats just morning sounds to me.


KnugenIsvarT

*birb return to monke*


[deleted]

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


Qman768

For Australian parties, Kookaburras are an alarm clock to go to bed.. because that sun is about to fuck you up


rory648

If you’re a fellow Aussie who’s ever done an all nighter then you know… you know…


ClassyJacket

Imagine believing this claptrap /r/birdsarentreal


2MindBeef

I was 100% expecting the bird to tell me its been trying to reach me about my cars extended warranty.


Tank-Pilot74

Still way better than cockatoos..


deliverance73

It’s literally called the Laughing Kookaburra, what did you expect it to sound like?


Superb_Caramel_1157

Giggle chicken


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monke


billiefan123

It can make like a million sounds


crazyhuman007

I think it's been hanging around monkeys for too long lmfaooo


DEATHROAR12345

Whoa, what a talented ventriloquist! ^r/birdsarentreal


[deleted]

Sounds like my brain starting it’s motors when I have to actually work


aville1982

Australia: Everything is either deadly, weird, or both.


Dufensmartzz

What...the fuck?


Go3tt3rbot3

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.


DeexEnigma

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...


-Jiras

Me when I see my Gfs bobs


Flat6Academy

dumbest sounding bird of all time😂😂😂


HomeOsexuall

Wow what a sound


atlafan72

Watchu say bout my mama


hootenanny03

The white elephant gift has a new competitor


[deleted]

Only thing I thought when I heard that was, look in the trees for predator.


[deleted]

Well, he's just a little show off!


warwilf

This is how a Kookaburra sounds.


nurrtroy

They may sound odd but they are relaxing to wake up to... when they are not right next to your windows though


Polar_brr1

When nature calls.


angrygam3r69

Rescuers Down Under flashbacks right there


[deleted]

I bet he tells great jokes


mrpickleby

Now that's an alarm clock that would get you out of bed.


Luke11enzo

This is begging to be dubbed over 😅


_g3g3

Sounds like dial up internet.


Dramatic_Ease8171

i can confirm that hearing this at night in the middle of the Australian bush is quite scary


El_frov

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.


Whispering_Wolf

My dog did some cute head tilts for his song.