In My Procrastination

On Monday, May 4th, I turned my 3 minute procrastination session into a full 4 hours by browsing YouTube.

I had been doing basically nothing all day. It was my school's "Resource" Day. Resource Days are every Monday and are days that we can use to catch up on late work. We can also use these days to get work done for later in the week or to just do nothing, which is what I did.

I thought that I should turn all of the time and energy I was using to put off my work into something productive. So here's the blog on the videos I watched that day.

As said before, I was on YouTube. I decided to watch some videos of wolves. Like, huge gray wolves being pet by their caretaker. Since I can't focus for more than 5 minutes, I quickly scrolled through the autoplay bar on the right.

Nothing looked interesting, so I typed "capybaras" into the search bar after trying to remember the name of the animal for a couple minutes. Capybaras are basically big rats (factually huge rodents) and they look like guinea pigs when they're babies. They're very laid back and are what I would want to be if I was an animal.

I found this cute video of capybaras in a mini hot spring with oranges at this zoo in Japan. In the video one of the capybaras had gotten an orange on top of its head and the audience started awing at it, later going"aww" when the orange fell off of its head (1:37).

After looping this for a while I saw another recommended video from the same Japanese zoo:"Shoebill's Meal Time with her Favorite Caretaker". Up until watching this I didn't even know what a shoebill was. I just saw a cute guy in the thumbnail and I clicked.

My first thoughts were that the bird had a super big head and a thick neck; it looked like it was robotic. It moved with such purpose. It was so still in the video and I wondered if it looked like that to the audience in real life too.

The bird - named Futaba - waited by her gate for some time before the caretaker came out with a bucket of fish. She started making this low hollow clucking sound with her beak and then spread her wings while stalking over to the man.

The thing that made me love this video was the bowing exchange. When the caretaker was introducing Futaba to the audience she would shake her head while "bowing" to him, and he bowed back.

It was touching to watch Futaba and her caretaker bow to each other. It's like the caretaker "matched" Futaba, like she was his spirit animal/Pokemon.

There's another video where the caretaker is talking to the audience and Futaba just kinda comes and stands behind him, checking him out. There wasn't as much bowing in this video but it was still worth watching.

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HIRO@sea

capybara with orange 
shoebill video 1 
shoebill video 2