Budgie Courtship Ritual Video | Pets: Wild At Heart | BBC Earth

Disco the budgie is back, and this time he's not alone! Pets: Wild At Heart We may think of our pets like another member of the family - but they exist in a secret world that we would hardly recognise. In this series new filming techniques reveal our pets' wild behaviour and natural abilities. Using the latest filming techniques, from spycams to thermal imaging and moving x-rays, this series reveals why just a small select group of animals have the perfect characteristics to become human companions. The first episode shows how our pets use play to get in touch with their wild side, while the second episode shows how our pets maintain links with their wild nature. Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

Video Script:: just as our pet fish can detect water currents our favorite pet birds can sense the movements of air a budgerigar responds to surrounding air currents by adjusting and controlling and flight [Music] nerve endings at the base of our feathers continually feedback the information she needs [Music] in this way she detects and avoids turbulent air [Music] and seeks out rising currents by sensing the air she maintains flight efficiency and budgies have yet another sensory secret in their courtship good looks are everything but after her flight she's too occupied in preening to care but her admirer has ways to get himself noticed she sees more subtleties of color than we can and she detects ultraviolet to a color invisible to us under UV his plumage takes on a very different look the yellow pigments in his crown and cheeks absorb UV and the effect is stunning but unless she looks it's all in vain he flops up his feathers to show off his true colors but she still gives him the cold shoulder it seems every relationship needs a nudge sometimes no he has a retention females prefer males that really shine the more his plumage absorbs UV sitter and healthy are here she's impressed and invites him to premium the budgie sensory world continues under our radar as it does with so many of our parents [Music]