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I really want an intelligent bird pet but I really don't want to lose a finger when it changes moods suddenly so I just admire them from afar. The pet store in my last city had this 30ish year old African Gray named buddy and she would flirt with men over 6 ft tall. She was the nicest bird too, used to sit on my hand and make nuclear bomb sounds while I picked out fish tank stuff.
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Sep 30, 2015 06:59
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I love parrots and think African Grays are the coolest, but I would never get one in a million years because they live for like 40 something years and they are extremely moody aggressive constantly making GBS threads 2-year olds for the entirety of that 40 years. Also I've read that they become so attached to their owners, they self-mutilate or get depressed and die if you give them away or something happens to you. 
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Sep 30, 2015 07:14
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lot of good videos but i keep going back to the op perfect condensation of bird
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Sep 30, 2015 07:24
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Parrots use their massive intellects to find ways to be even louder!
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Sep 30, 2015 08:15
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i was at work and i showed this video - "i have a video of a bird yelling in a cup. do you wanna see it?" - "yeah, sure" - "... it was just a video of a bird yelling in a cup." *suplexes coworker into desk while making airplane noises*
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Sep 30, 2015 08:18
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Sheep-Goats posted:Birds are pretty cool. You can teach them to not poo poo everywhere and not shriek all the time but it's not as easy as it is to teach a dog to do stuff. a sloth seems pretty cool you don't have to do anything they just hang around sleeping
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Sep 30, 2015 10:24
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Al Borland posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nV3C-5d5ww Take note. Pelicans will eat your children, if given half a chance.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jng3MG2MiXQ LOL this lady seems like a really bad bird owner. I definitely don't want a raven now.
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Sep 30, 2015 16:21
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VendaGoat posted:Take note. Pelicans will eat your children, if given half a chance. this owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4TU_R7J3c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxIOdt-V8Y
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Sep 30, 2015 16:22
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etalian posted:this owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIniVfY-ptg E: Apparently kill whales own them more tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52o5yV6G7tY Since the show had been cut short, the bewildered audience responded with clapping and cheering as each part of the Pelican was retrieved from the pool. Al Borland fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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Sep 30, 2015 16:27
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crows are super smart  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYwRMEomJMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NenEdSuL7QU
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Sep 30, 2015 16:41
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deep impact on vhs posted:crows are super smart crows are legit one of my favorite birds. They are hilarious pranksters too, I've seen them make cats fight each other before lol. E: holy poo poo are crows smart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04 Al Borland fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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Sep 30, 2015 16:44
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:I love parrots and think African Grays are the coolest, but I would never get one in a million years because they live for like 40 something years and they are extremely moody aggressive constantly making GBS threads 2-year olds for the entirety of that 40 years. I feel the same way. My family used to own a parrot and had to give it to my uncle, and the bird is still alive 30 years later. Later on I had a pet budgie that was so friendly and gentle she'd try to eat food out of your mouth, and despite being a female was able to say her own name. My dumbass mom opened the door while she was flying about on Christmas day and she flew away, RIP Baby  If I were to ever get a bird of my own, it would be another budgie. They continually make stream-of-consciousness style schizophrenic bird noises but their max noise level can be blocked out behind a shut door, they can be just as friendly as the big ones if hand-raised and blessed with a good temperament, they are apartment friendly both due to their size and their noise not being that bad, their bite can be nasty but can't lop your finger off like the bigger parrots, and their lifespan is short enough that you don't have to make reservations for the bird's care in your own will. They can also sort-of talk, although they won't pull some of the crazy cool poo poo the bigger parrots do it's still worth getting most of the cool parrot package minus the headache. This is also a personal anecdote, but they seem way more chill than Cockatiels. Just don't get a lovely poorly-kept/raised and probably physically ill one from Petland.
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Sep 30, 2015 17:18
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Al Borland posted:crows are legit one of my favorite birds. They are hilarious pranksters too, I've seen them make cats fight each other before lol.
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Sep 30, 2015 17:19
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Al Borland posted:crows are legit one of my favorite birds. They are hilarious pranksters too, I've seen them make cats fight each other before lol. Best crow research story is when researchers wearing nixon masks attacked and annoyed certain crows. The interesting thing is over time crows not part of the experiment reacted angrily to the nixon mask, showing crows have some form of communication.
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Sep 30, 2015 17:52
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etalian posted:Best crow research story is when researchers wearing nixon masks attacked and annoyed certain crows.
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Sep 30, 2015 18:00
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Cuckoo posted:I feel the same way. My family used to own a parrot and had to give it to my uncle, and the bird is still alive 30 years later. Later on I had a pet budgie that was so friendly and gentle she'd try to eat food out of your mouth, and despite being a female was able to say her own name. My dumbass mom opened the door while she was flying about on Christmas day and she flew away, RIP Baby A cockateil is about 500% more chill than a parakeet. I'm glad you had a good parakeet but most of them are basically winged bugs as far as intelligence and personality go.
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Sep 30, 2015 19:10
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cockatiels are the best parrot and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and probably a terrorist 
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Sep 30, 2015 19:25
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Al Borland posted:
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Sep 30, 2015 19:26
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Well now we know who likes a cockortwo.
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Sep 30, 2015 19:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRbC6ePUHUg wow
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Sep 30, 2015 19:52
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tbh big birls like macaws shouldnt be pets they should be in teh wild and stuff let the burds spread they wings and fly in they flocks and stuff
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Sep 30, 2015 19:56
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Tendai posted:cockatiels are the best parrot and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and probably a terrorist Cockateil is best pet
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Sep 30, 2015 20:00
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Sheep-Goats posted:Cockateil is best pet I adore both species, but grew up with either one or the other in my house nearly all my life. I seriously had a better experience with the Petland Discount dirty crowded cage practically-a-rescue budgie than the hand-raised, professionally bred Cockatiel. Both were friendly birds, but the budgie was much quieter and easier to handle while both birds were equally friendly/retarded. I guess it's just a testament to how different each individual bird's personality can be, no matter how big or small. That's another risk with parrot ownership, it's kind of a gigantic crapshoot what your bird will be like even if it was raised lovingly.
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Sep 30, 2015 20:13
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Cuckoo posted:I adore both species, but grew up with either one or the other in my house nearly all my life. I seriously had a better experience with the Petland Discount dirty crowded cage practically-a-rescue budgie than the hand-raised, professionally bred Cockatiel. Both were friendly birds, but the budgie was much quieter and easier to handle while both birds were equally friendly/retarded. Cockateil is best pet
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Sep 30, 2015 23:37
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Improbable Lobster posted:"Smart" birds are arbitrary and do dumb poo poo for fun all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA What about smart birds doing kickin' rad poo poo for fun? Cuckoo posted:How could you post this without their calls? that's horrifying. I went to a zoo once that had a Cassowary. There was some lady there trying to tell me about cassowaries, but she didn't actually know much about them. I have a feeling she was just some random person who decided to come to the zoo with a laminated fact sheet, since it wasn't formatted or anything. I asked her about their penchant for disembowling people, and she just pointed to the spot on her printout that listed the claw size. My ex and I stood there watching the cassowary patrol around its habitat, radiating hate the whole time. The bird radiated hate, I mean, not my ex or myself. Anyway, at the end of its loop, it looked straight at us, then let loose a massive splash of bird diarrhea. Bored fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Oct 1, 2015 00:45
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if my cat eats a budgie, will he gain its intelligence? please reply asap thank you.
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Oct 1, 2015 00:50
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Jose posted:a sloth seems pretty cool you don't have to do anything they just hang around sleeping TBH that describes most lizards, amphibian and tarantula pets
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Oct 1, 2015 01:16
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Not only do they know to drop nuts on the road for cars to run over and open, they know to do it at traffic lights so that they can eat the nuts when the cars are stopped.
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Oct 1, 2015 02:17
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Cockatiels really are awesome. Smarter and with greater longevity than budgies, not too much louder, and not nearly as malevolently crazy as bigger parrots.
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Oct 1, 2015 09:22
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A lot of toucans croak and some even sound like frogs. https://youtu.be/qedcBvmXKsI Caiques also love to hop. https://youtu.be/_DIMJ2eENow
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Oct 1, 2015 14:25
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Nathilus posted:Cockatiels really are awesome. Smarter and with greater longevity than budgies, not too much louder, and not nearly as malevolently crazy as bigger parrots. Parrots, man. They're not for everyone but they're fuckin' great.
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Oct 1, 2015 15:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5huCuhD_Q
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Oct 1, 2015 15:24
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Marnie wants you to know that he loves you. All of you. Even the idiot cockatiels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95vR_DFbgQc "Cute! Gimme a kiss! Whee!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEZgOV5jjc
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Oct 1, 2015 15:31
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awwwww
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Oct 1, 2015 15:59
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Tendai posted:"Cute! Gimme a kiss! Whee!" 
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Oct 1, 2015 16:21
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Bored posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA There's only one known case of a cassowary killing a human, and in that case the bird got lucky severing some kid's artery with a kick.
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Oct 1, 2015 16:44
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Tendai posted:Smart enough to be entertaining, just dumb enough to be managed is how I always think of Judah. He'll be brilliant about something but then have zero sense of object permanence for things that he just saw being covered by paper, for example. They're smart enough to have a personality but dumb enough to never realize they're a pet.
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steinrokkan posted:There's only one known case of a cassowary killing a human, and in that case the bird got lucky severing some kid's artery with a kick. they own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo
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