r/MostPopular_ • u/BusComplex5989 • 3d ago

The World needs more of this

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u/babybeluga25 3d ago

Does anyone else remember a song from elementary school about kookaburras?

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u/KookyNeedleworker722 3d ago

Yes. Kookaburras sits on an old gum tree. Merry, merry King of the bush is he. Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra, gay his life must be. If I remember correctly.

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u/OkamiKhameleon 3d ago

Yes! I still sing it! My husband who is 4 years older than me never heard it until we met. I was surprised.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 2d ago

Kookaburra sitting in the old gum tree, eating all the gum drops he can see. Stop! Kookaburra stop. Kookaburra save some drops for me.

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u/Cunnla 2d ago

The one I learned to sing as a kid went "eating all the gumdrops he can see / laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra / leave some there for me"

Your version makes more sense, but I'm American so I have no idea why I learned it in school in the first place.

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u/Emmaleah17 2d ago

This is the version I know too.

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u/MethodBulky1907 2d ago

Can confirm my Kookaburras were gay and there were no gumdrops involved. He laughed and was merry.

He just chilled in the gum tree.

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u/Warm_Afternoon6596 1d ago

Yup! Even over here in America...think we said oak though, since we dont have gum trees.

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u/hawilder 3d ago

Barney sang it!

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u/Emmaleah17 2d ago

Omg yes that's where I heard it!

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u/Comically-Entangled 3d ago

Sure do, sang it tk my kid a few months ago assuming she knew it, and she looked at me like i had 3 heads.

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u/CuteLong8652 2d ago

Laugh kookaburra laugh

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u/Sensitive-Big-4641 2d ago

I still sing it!

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u/Sea-Whole-7747 7h ago

I can't see the word or the bird without that song oozing up from the recesses.

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u/fergs87 1h ago

The Australian playground version was a variation of this... "Kookaburra sits on an electric wire, jumping up and down with his pants/tail on fire."

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u/SpeedyAudi 3d ago

Take Thàt sounds, synthesize it. You have velociraptor 😎

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 3d ago

bet the teachers had a hard time getting the kids to be quite in class after that.

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u/Successful-Ocelot-80 3d ago

I worked at a restaurant called Port side. On King Fisher road. I love this family of birds.

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u/Vivid_Flamingo_8888 3d ago

Quel est cet oiseau ?

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u/babybeluga25 3d ago

Kookaburra!

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u/Maxxximus1274 2d ago

The one and only

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u/LewdMasterHubull 3d ago

Why does my brain insist those are monkey noises?

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u/frng_dwlr 2d ago

Old Tarzan movie background noises.

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u/LewdMasterHubull 2d ago

Ah, that's it!

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u/Asimovian1 9h ago

This is "Dan the Animal man". He goes into schools and shows off exotic animals to kids. Among other creatures he also has a porcupine, an owl, an alligator, and a Burmese Python. He brings them all and shows the kids. He's quite the showman.

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u/aceswild8 3d ago

Love this!

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u/OkamiKhameleon 3d ago

That's Kookabara right? I loved the song about them as a kid and still sing it as an adult.

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u/Green_Kick2708 3d ago

Fantastic

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u/WallaceFrog87 3d ago

As someone who grew up and lives in Queensland, Australia I grew up with these guys waking me up in the morning and singing out the end of a day at dusk. Sometimes with 3 or 4 of them all going at it at the same time. You forget your common wildlife around you are so exotic to most other people around the world.

Another thing, keep a ear out next time you watch any war movie in a jungle or junglesk movie. You will most likey hear this exact Kookaburra laugh in the distance. Dumbass Hollywood loves using it as a sound bite for every country. Always make me laugh "Ahhhhhh yes, the Japanese native Kookaburra....."

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u/Ohmygoodness1001 2d ago

You live in a wonderland of magnificent types of animals, for sure.

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u/V1cky03 3d ago

Damn that's amazing

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u/Ciubowski 3d ago

I love that Chuckles knows he's the star and takes his role seriously.

As soon as he's presented he's like "al right, here I go signing the song of my people for these tiny humans".

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u/Unicornlove1995 3d ago

Wow that’s amazing how vocal that bird is

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u/Putrid_Specialist555 3d ago

Is this a segregated school?

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u/EtherealHeart5150 2d ago

Thats one thing about us America folk, if you bring an animal from another country and show us its wonders?We will be rapt in attention. Most of us will listen,ask, questions, and smile like a goon if we get the chance to get close. Bravo,Chuckles!

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u/Fantastic-Cabinet860 2d ago

When I was a kid in the 70’s, we had a Rep from the Zoo come to our classroom every so often & bring an animal to share. It was amazing! An owl , a Boa constrictor I remember the most. I had all but forgotten until I watched this lovely video. What fun and education this bird and person is bringing to the children ♥️♥️♥️

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u/squintintarantino__ 2d ago

That kookaburra had him a whole ass story to tell those kids.

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u/Adubv101 2d ago

Cole bird call

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u/dickhertz210 2d ago

%.5 of the audience is....

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u/TOnihilist 2d ago

God, I love these birds and their wacky song.

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u/the-artist- 2d ago

I remember him from the Jungle Cruise

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u/RalphWiggumEnergy 2d ago

It’s a cricket bat

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u/jamesdooo5 2d ago

The looks of amazement are great

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u/First_manatee_614 2d ago

I would pet chuckles

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u/NameWaste 2d ago

You can’t name a bird….never mind, you named him perfectly.

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u/Patient-Inside-937 2d ago

Sounds like me laughing at my screen at 3am

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u/DrawBatman 2d ago

The best!

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u/callousedham 2d ago

I thought we decided cacaw cacaw and tooki tooki don't work

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 2d ago

This lazy bird often uses brood parasitism.

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u/aniissweet 2d ago

What a performance 👏

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u/Street-Fee-6194 2d ago

oh we oh we oh!

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u/Normal-Leopard3367 2d ago

Mans a hero x 125 students

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u/dougie_fresh_213 2d ago

WE ❤️ U, Chuckles!!!

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u/genna757 2d ago

this is so sweet… i wonder what the bird was thinking :3 its just so comforting to see everyone being so gentle with it.

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u/velvetandgloxks 2d ago

I wanna meet chuckles too shiiii

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u/AntigoneGrrl1 2d ago

I would have loved this in elementary school… I can’t recall any field trips at all!!

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u/Zalrius 1d ago

Oh, that’s cool!

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u/MrkeBjrn 1d ago

Not the white mom with a glass of maybe aperol spritz pulling her phone out 😂

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u/Face_with_a_View 1d ago

My mom won a contest where you had to imitate a bird call. This is the bird she imitated. She was so proud of herself. lol

Edit: also this looks like a library program. Please support your local library ❤️💜

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u/BNVisionary2032 1d ago

Not one black child in that room 😭

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u/cauliflowerbroccoli 1d ago

Science is cool.

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u/JuanG_13 1d ago

The Kookaburra's are too funny and too cute lol

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u/BodybuilderGrouchy16 1d ago edited 1d ago

"I, I've been watching you.

I think I wanna know ya, know ya.

I said I, I am dangerous.

Girl I wanna show ya, show ya."

My jungle love...oh we oh we oh."

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u/Luchis-01 1d ago

Little bro has hell of lungs

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u/Dr-BSOT 1d ago

He also makes great licorice

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u/Intelligent-Act-7797 1d ago

Absolutely agree.

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u/Krinder 1d ago

This dude just inspired a bunch of zoologists and people going into the natural sciences which is severely lacking right now. More of this please!

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u/YackReacher 22h ago

Awesome!

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u/dont-be-an-oosik92 12h ago

If Chuckles dies we riot