[ it's a fascinating video! .. with seems maybe an introduction to many as me a real life feathery preventative fire fighter .. lol ]
TRANSCRIPT
We know Australian birds are special and the rest of the world does too. Songbirds like our lyrebird are the most amazing mimics on earth. Our parrots are incredibly smart and adaptable. Our pigeons eat fruit, move seeds and shape entire forests. But for most of the last century, scientists from the Northern Hemisphere assume that our birds are just a second-hand fauna, descended from theirs.
Tim Low That's where birds had evolved, that's where you had normal birds. What was going on in Australia. It was a bit whacky. And you could get away with that 'cause it was this lost continent in the south.
NARRATION It was only in recent decades that Australian scientists dared to challenge the orthodoxy from Europe and America. And now at least three different groups of birds have revealed something amazing that rocked the world of science. They all had their evolutionary origin in Australia before spreading to the rest of the world, not the other way around. (Magpie warbles)
Mark Horstman Knowing that this continent was the birthplace of songbirds, parrots and pigeons, helps to explain their close relationship with Australian vegetation and their extraordinary behaviours, why Australian birds are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive, loud, melodious, socially cooperative, environmentally influential and more important for pollination than anywhere else.
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