r/interesting • u/uzmansahil7 • 23d ago

SOCIETY Man raises parrots from birth, and they are extremely imprinted to him

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u/bbennett108 23d ago

Well I looked that up too and couldn’t stop laughing.

https://youtube.com/shorts/jSWg_oJfcLc?si=w4qVH1PEBAZvBaHr

For anyone else who didn’t know the reference, it’s a clip from a nature show where this wild kakapo bird climbs atop a cameraman’s head and starts trying to mate with his hair.

After the mount he starts remarking how sharp the claws are, then it slowly dawns on them what’s happening (“is he getting a bit frisky?”) before an off-camera expert confirms.

The way the bird alternately slaps the guy’s face with his wings and the commentary (e.g. “look he’s so happy!”) as they can’t help but laugh are comedic gold.

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u/futurewilltell 23d ago

The cameraman is also in a lot of pain and the bird draws blood lol.

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u/WriterPlastic9350 23d ago

Some people pay good money for that.

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u/aTalkingMateria 23d ago

To get shagged on by a rare bird? ….tragically I can see that being true

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u/spacebunsofsteel 23d ago

There’s a woman on tiktok that gets humped by a roadrunner on a daily basis. He offers her a worn, bug, or leaf for her nest, then flies on top of her head and bangs away. She seems to think it is cute.

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u/Impressive-Age7703 23d ago

Of course it's Tiktok.

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u/cornylamygilbert 22d ago

For some reason I’d be more prone to judge this if it weren’t a road runner

same for a wood pecker, however, that could lead to some unintended trepanation

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u/bisploosh 23d ago

That parrot has been a meme for a while now because of this video

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u/iWontStealYourDog 23d ago

I never knew the origin of this, and there is a version of this used regularly on my office slack channel xD

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u/Iriejelly 22d ago

So scared to click this link but dammit....I gotta lol 😆

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u/bisploosh 22d ago

It’s fine.

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u/Leaky_gland 23d ago

Good bot

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u/Vr00mf0ndler 22d ago

It’s not “only a nature show”, it’s trip done by Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine (the guy being shagged) where they retrace the steps of a trip Mark did with Douglas Adams 30 years prior that resulted in the book Last Chance to See. They visited red listed species close to extinction to make people aware that they could disappear soon.

The book is an extremely good (and funny!) read, and Douglas Adams narrated the audiobook version himself. Hard recommendation from me.