Keas playing tricks on wildlife filmmakers and demolish their truck for fun

Excerpt from "Keas - Spaßvögel in Neuseeland" (Tiere vor der Kamera | Episode 23/54)
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A troop of parrots lands on our truck, a few seconds later a windscreen wiper is missing. Another bird emerges triumphantly from under the car with a piece of rubber boot in its beak.... Scenes from a horror movie? No, everyday life in New Zealand's mountains!
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Ernst Arendt and Hans Schweiger visited the jokers of New Zealand and try to see it with humour when the keas play tricks on them.
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"The Kea-gang directed our film work, kept us busy all day long. We constantly had to watch our equipment. The jokers were hopping around on the camera and dragging lens cases into the rocks. They played on and under our truck, stuck their heads in the exhaust, did gymnastics on brake cables, chewed on electric cables, looked in at the window..."
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Nice to Grey Warbler’s in the background as well.