that's right from blackpink to NCT to j-hope to IU - no one is safe
hi welcome today's video is super exciting because I'm going to be
roasting your fav k-pop idols parrot handling skills and I know what you're
thinking ''didn't you get a false copyright claim
by YG Entertainment the last time you made this video'' and the answer is yes
but I've decided to use this photo of Lisa that I printed six months ago I
wish I could say I printed it for this occasion but I did not and no I've never
been to Mexico, that makes me the biggest BLINK out of all of you! so enough
of my shenanigans let's get right into this actually I'm gonna stop you right
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people that you can hate them with, we're gonna start off with the major
Mitchell's cockatoo that can be seen in blackpink's ''ddu-du ddu-du'' music video
obviously this bird gets a 10 out of 10 because parrots are objectively the best
animals in the world, are they the best pets in the world? absolutely not. do they
terrorize people and destroy things in Australia? yes but that's a human issue
because though there are some species of colleges that are native to Australia
they're not native to every part of Australia so people move them around and
then of course to become an invasive species and attack your cats let's talk
about her actual handling of the parrot, so we can see that she is quite stable, her
elbow is propped up on a chair and her hand is very stable, she is not moving
she is rapping but she's not moving her body in a way that could make the parrot
lose balance, the way she's holding the parrot is not the most ideal when you're
holding a bird of that size it's really important to have them perch on your
hand and not on your wrists like this the thing with parrots is that they're
really sketchy they're always on edge because they constantly think someone's
going to eat them so though she makes up for these balance issues by being super
stable, I do take issue with the spikes on her gloves
I take parrot perches very seriously obviously this parrot is not going to
spend days in days on end on her spiked gloves regardless I stretched it out
that much so I could tell you that if you do have parents at home it's
important to have different sizes of perches and different textures of
perches so make sure your perches are clean,
they vary in texture and sizes and you should be good in theory, along with so
much more other information! also it's probably best not to wear jewelry around
your parrot just because parrots are attracted to shiny things and like to
destroy everything in your life, I used to have a septum piercing, it's happened
three times with three different cockatoos who have tried to get near my
piercing luckily I stopped them in time, even if you have a pimple on your face
they will try to groom you so that your smoother and so that you can fly with
more efficacy, they're really just trying to look out for you but is doesn't
really translate that well, given all that information I think I'm gonna give
her a 6 out of 10 because yes she could be holding the bird in a less aesthetic
way but she does have a lot of stability so I have to give her credit for that we
are going to move on to the major Mitchell's cockatoo in NCT u's ''yestoday''
this is the same species that we saw in ''ddu-du ddu-du'' but I can't confirm whether
or not it's the same parrot, maybe it is, maybe they all know the same parrot
people, God knows we like to stick together! except for this one time where
I saw this lady who had a shirt that said ''I heart my African Grey'' and I am a
very awkward person and I don't approach anyone but I thought this is a parrot
person, might as well try my shot and I went up to her and I told her ''I love
your shirt'' and she was like ''thanks'' I didn't know what to do so I just said ''I
love parrots'' and I walked away admittedly there's not much to say about
this particular parrot handling because there's not much technique that goes
into it however he's stable, he's really calm, this parrot looks super chill, I'm
actually really jealous of him because I've never gotten to hold a major
Mitchells cockatoo before, I have seen one through FaceTime with a friend who
went on a trip to Australia, I was essentially a tour guide for her and
five other strangers for 20 minutes straight and she told me when she came
back home that those people were like actually listening to everything I was
saying, I was like ''oh good thing I only spit facts'' Cockatoos in particular have
a thing on top of their heads called a crest that they can lift up and down and
it's very dramatic, so iconic but they also have a thing called cheeks floofs
which is a scientific term for the feathers around their cheeks that they
can lift up and down and this is how you can tell when a cockatoo is comfortable
so if their cheeks floofs are up, that means they're comfortable, that means they're
relaxing so I'm gonna have to give him an 8 out of 10
because though this isn't maybe the most ideal
way to hold a parrot, it is still a fair bit more stable than the way Lisa was
holding her parrot and we have the evidence of cheek floofs which gives me
a bit more confidence, now we're moving on to darker things first of all this is
not how you pick up a parrot on the run if a parrot is unwilling to be picked up
by you, the least traumatic way to pick them up is to towel them, it doesn't have
to be a towel it could be just a piece of material that you put over the parrot
and then you grab them from under their jaw and then you transport them like
that, it's a lot less traumatic than almost breaking their wing or leg with a
box and it's important to do it the right way as well because if you hold a
parrot around their body not only can you suffocate them but they could also
bite you, can still breathe while you're holding it under it's jaw so for
parrot safety I have to give them a zero out of ten because what if they
crush the bird's wing or they break the bird's foot and budgies are very very
tiny and therefore a lot more fragile than let's say a macaw would be, I still
would not try to catch a macaw like that, the cage is also terrible and I know
it's for aesthetics but it's important to note that if you do have a parrot and
your cage looks like this you need to upgrade your cage, you need toys and if
you don't have toys already you need to introduce them slowly because if you
introduce too many toys at once it can be overwhelming, you need to give your
bird the opportunity to forage because Parrots are so incredibly intelligent
they're not meant to be in cages all day in our homes right, they're meant to be
in the wild flying around that does not mean release your bird into the wild,
because they will likely die. the last thing that concerns me is the fact that
the parrot keeps on biting him, now it doesn't matter how brave you are you
never want to put a parrot in a position where it feels the need to bite you
parrots biting other parrots or attacking is actually fairly uncommon in
the wild because they generally will fly away unless they're a cockatoo, those are
some brave *******, so I don't like this and I don't appreciate this because it
shows me that he's pushing the parrot way past its boundaries and in the wild
they can simply fly away but in captivity they don't have a choice but
to put up with your bullcrap, just imagine if this was not a budgie but
instead a hyacinth macaw, those beaks are meant to break open nuts so
can you imagine him losing a finger over this, over the aesthetic of a music video
it's very possible to train budgies but unfortunately they're a dime a dozen and
people do not take them seriously because they're so small but if Norman
Barett can train his budgies to go through hoops I'm sure you could have
gotten a well trained budgie and prevented a lot of the stress that this
bird had to endure, so this gets zero out of 10 I'm so sorry, we're gonna move on
to the various parrots that can be seen in BTS world notably the interactions
between j-hope and this eclectus parrot j-hope is my bias but don't tell anyone
by the way we can tell that this parrot is a male eclectus parrot because the
females are purple and red with black beaks that's just a long way to say that
these parrots are sexually dimorphic there are clear physical characteristics
that distinguish males from females and this is actually fairly uncommon in the
parrot world, usually to tell the difference between a male and a female
you would have to take a DNA test, they also have very hair like feathers which
is really cool and they're kind of polyamorous which is also a bit
different in the parrot world, I got into a lot of hot water last time I talked
about his parrot handling skills because for some reason you think that because
you know someone who dated a girl in high school once who had a cousin who
once stepped foot in a zoo that you know a thing or two about parrots, but here's
the thing, parrot people wouldn't do me dirty like
that, that's a lie I've been in a parrot scandal before very traumatic, toxic
blinks who? I called out the situation because I saw that the parrot was
outside without a harness and people were telling me that you could train a
parrot to not fly away, this is true however I have experience with parrots
who were trained to sit on a perch who have then consequently still flown away
and surprise surprise I'm part of a lot of parrot groups and the most common
post I see is ''I lost my parrot'' you need to be careful with these things I don't
care you could train a parrot to not bite your face off, it does not mean that
the most professionally trained parrots won't bite your face off under certain
circumstances, I've seen people with the most parrot experience still get bit
it's- it happens, you cannot train a wild animal to be predictable, losing your
parrot is preventable they make harnesses for your parrot,
you can make a little buggy with a cage and a baby carriage and you can bring
your parrots outside these are all very preventable ways to not lose your bird
you cannot train a wild animal to be predictable, we are going to be talking
about the Catalina macaw in IU's ''good day'' I'm just assuming that this is a
Catalina macaw but I am going to confidently say that
it's some type of hybrid macaw so her parrot handling initially is
questionable because she herself is outside too in the open without a
harness for her parrot, which runs the risk of the parrot flying away and you
losing that parrot forever, we see the parrot lose balance and you see its
beak in her hair, I don't know if they thought this was cute the parrots just
losing balance but then the most questionable thing in the entire world
is that she just leaves the parrot there so then she dances on roofs, and then
suddenly she's home and this random guy brings her back her parrot, here's where
things get even more questionable, this must be an alternate universe people
don't do this in real life, they put the parrot on the lamp which is a huge no-no
because the bird of that size would require a perch much thicker than that
second of all electricity! did we not just discuss that parrots like to
destroy everything mmm you know most people who have birds of
that size or just most parrot people, people who love parrots and have parrots
have entire rooms dedicated to their birds they have big wooden perches they
have rope hanging from ceiling this does not look like a parrot person's house, my
point is that lamp is not an ideal perch and that bird will destroy it, I mean again
you could train your bird to not bite into a lamp but it doesn't mean the bird
won't bite into the lamp you could also train your bird to not make holes in the
damn wall doesn't mean it's not gonna happen, it's just avian science don't @ me
parrot responsibility gets a big fat zero out of 10 because you -you do -you do
not leave parrots alone like that- it's- this was probably the sixteenth most
terrible thing but I will never forgive yg for, actually I've kind of forgiven
them because they did put out a statement apologizing, so first of all I
think the only way that she could get away with this is by the fact that this
is a baby and I can tell it's a baby macaw because
it's a lot smaller and its eyes are pitch black, so here is an example of a
parrot who is well trained who is trained to not fly away but this doesn't
make the situation any more ethical, the parrots body language is very visibly
showing how uncomfortable it is, how much balance it's losing you could see it
flapping its wings- that's the parrot trying to regain balance you can see the
parrot nibbling at her ear, that's the parrot trying not to fall off, overall as
a parrot person this is just very painful to watch, and I think it's a very
irresponsible use of a wild animal in a live show, so unfortunately this gets a
zero out of ten, that's it for this video it's so long I'm gonna try to keep it as
long as possible because I feel like you guys like making fun of me for being
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