@matildagirl, I love all of these wondrous voices of mother nature! My husband, who was passing by my office as I've been listening to their distinctive and sometimes melodious sounds, is now standing behind me, totally mesmerized. The photos are also quite beautiful. All of these sweet critters are making me smile and giving me a sense of peace. (Even the Tasmanian Devil, lol!)
Thank you for sharing these with us.
A couple of other birds for your enjoyment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKRij7dEHM
King Parrot, my favourite bird, I get them in my backyard. The male is so vibrant amongst the greenery.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ixT3yzFmHYs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vOuLXxHaR8
Dancing Brolgas
Regards to all
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLpx3eK4/
Had to show you this cutie, she is called Matilda too. Beats what’s happening in the news at the moment.
Regards to all
Okay, this story about an orca is very sad, although beautiful, and gives hope. But WARNING: SAD STORY that can distress your sensitive imagination. But it is also an extremely beautiful showing the changing consciousness of humans, especially because it didn't appear in an animal lover publication, but in The Washington Post.
It is about a beloved orca captured back in the 1970's to be a marine circus animal and how a groundswell of empathy for her fought to return her to her home waters. It is about a remarkable orca who managed to stay strong for her fifty years in captivity to become an emissary from the animal world to teach humans that animals are soulful beings no less conscious and no less loving than humans, that it is a cardinal sin to capture them.
The Inuit of this orca's native waters believe the orkas are their sacred relatives. Science has shown them to be highly intelligent beings who live a hundred years in the wild in families, linked like tribes with other orcas, where mothers and their offspring staying together their entire lives.
When this beloved orca finally died in captivity just before she was to be returned at great expense to her native waters, her tribe 3000 miles away came together in a ritual gathering that hinted they felt her calls all the years of her absence and knew when she had passed.
I think this link will get you past The Washington Post paywall.
If you have a WAPO subscription, the story is entitled
The call of Tokitae:
After half a century in a tank, a beloved orca was about to be freed. Then her life ended, and a moment of reckoning began.
I found this video of my toddler pets playing the way children play - thought you'd enjoy for a smile. https://vimeo.com/891886077
Made me laugh aloud. Woman stops huge Moose dead in its tracks as it was chasing full speed her 5 pound Yorkie dog. How did she do it? She says, she used her Mom voice. Starts 50 seconds in.