Thread 5052679

Smug fucker edition

how do I convince my budgie to eat pellets again

>>5052754
Whats she eating at the moment? Seeds?
Here is my prize winning budgie she is called birb :>

>>5053132
She was eating seeds then i managed to convert her to "super small" zupreem pellets but they stopped making super small so I bought the regular small and now she won't eat them at all

>>5053627
I reccomend harrison's adult lifetime super fine for getting birds off of seeds as the pellets are roughly the same size, shape and colour as millet.
Just mix them into the seeds and use less seeds gradually :)
Harrison's is also a nutritionally complete diet and certified organic <3
my birds love it

>>5053744
Many such cases.

Here is my dinosaur.

>>5054318
Brimming with poise

>decide to look up "x" parrot species
>search results lead me to a parrot subplebbit talking about how "x" parrot is unkosher to keep without titanium gorrilion bar aviary
>decide to see out of morbid curiosity the rest of the subplebbit
>90% are just posts about small parrots and a combination of "does my heckin' parrota'rino have aids from this feather pattetm?" or "le head scritches :3:3"
>they all used stupidly sized cages that they don't need to be so big for such small parrots
>suspect they were likely guilt tripped into doing so by marketing or plebbit hyper social awareness of being called out for neglect if their cage is one inch off being 8ft wide for their budgie
>notice the posts use a lot of weird language that borders on being infantile
>discover that the vast majority of users posting are tatoo'd fat women
>the few posters who are not posting small parrots or using infantile language are men
>then come to the conclusion that this is true to just plebbit but irl experience as well with the vast majority of large parrots I have known having male owners
>one of the most common things I also heard from women keeping parrots is that they like macaws but "a beak that big makes them nervous"
>think back to dog domestication and the consistent trend of women creating dog breeds that are largely too deformed or unhealthy to pose a physical risk
>then think back to the sterotype of female cat owners declawing and feeding their persians to the point of immobile obesity
>think back to my grandma trying to shove food down my throat as much as she could while half-jokingly telling me to stop growing as I become twice her height
>>consider how schools are largely female and mostly self-contained areas to prevent kids from roaming while fattening them up with school meals, like parrots in giant cages and oil heavy feed
>>>reach an epiphany as to why almost all world religion agrees to the fact that women shouldn't be in positions of power

>>5052679 (OP)
why are african greys so smart

>>5054414
They are one of the few bird species to develop a primate style brain structure through convergent evolution. They have big spiriform nuclei which function in a similar fashion to the pontine nuclei that primates have at quite the large size. But while they are similar, the spiriform is a massive highway that loops the cerebellums pathways to several regions of the brain which the pontine does as well but actually routes far less regions of the brain in comparison to the spiriform. In other words, they are ape brained but ironically have far better infomation processing than actual apes themselves. It is also important to note that this level of intelligence is very different to corvids as their brain wiring is different but neuron dense regardless. Parrots are as close to sapience as you can get within the realm of animal sentience and they will remind you of that at every oppertunity.

>>5054443
How do we foster more intellect in parrots and give them some kind of cross generational exchange like we do with language and media

>>5054457
Why are they so pure?

>>5054452
The better question is how we do transfer this brain structure change to more deserving animals like border collies and maine coons and remove it from parrots since they’re not doing shit with it and have no use for it at all

>>5054462
https://youtu.be/YilfS75feMg?si=UU2cyEZRwRIQ2DYW

>>5054462
Trans coded post

>>5054466
And you are implying this is better than a dog that sits in his backyard calling people faggots all day?

With the agility and unnoticeableness of a cat, people could be called faggots from anywhere

>>5054473
Cats and dogs can't fly and die by the age of 16. A parrot can fly and opperate for 80 years while it locks onto spergs and screams faggot at them like bloody mary. They run on less resources too compared to felines or hounds. You are dismantling a loitering munition to make a glorified land mine. Parrots are surperior choice.

>>5054476
Cats and dogs are also innately liked by humans while the smartest parrot is still just a bird. A parrot can fly, but a dog could lead an army.

>>5054478
>Cats and dogs are also innately liked by humans while the smartest parrot is still just a bird.
Pirates disprove that this exclusive to cats or dogs. A dog or a cat could lead an army, but a parrot could lead an armada

>At the end of World War II, the Allied forces wanted to make sure that Nazism didn't rise again in Germany. So they implemented a program of denazification, making it a criminal act, punishable by up to three years in prison, to display Nazi symbols such as the swastika or to give the Nazi salute.
>However, they encountered resistance from an unusual quarter: a 15-year-old white, female, South-American parrot named Laura who lived in a cage at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo. This bird had the disturbing habit of greeting visitors by loudly squawking the phrase 'Heil Hitler' as she bobbed her head up and down.
>The zoo had acquired Laura at the beginning of 1949, buying her from a dealer in Hamburg for DM 120 – Laura said nothing intelligible during her first week, leading the staff to fear that she wouldn't be a talker. But during the second week she revealed her vocal abilities, though in an entirely unfortunate way. As her caretaker, Joachim Herzner, entered her cage for her morning feeding, she greeted him with a cheerful "Heil Hitler!" Herzner initially wasn't sure if he had heard her correctly, but then she repeated the phrase, leaving absolutely no doubt.
>It soon became clear that Laura's "Heil Hitler" wasn't a one-off performance. It was her favorite phrase, which she repeated over and over. She regaled everyone who approached her cage with it, including the children and American soldiers who were frequent visitors at the zoo.
>People came to see Laura, thronging around her cage, trying to encourage her to say her signature line. The zoo staff appreciated the crowds, although they realized, to their dismay, that they had inadvertently become hosts for a "cheerleader for the führer." Zoo officials also worried that Laura's Heil Hitlers weren't just an embarrassment. Because of the anti-Nazi laws, they might actually be illegal as well.
>And then zoo officials discovered, to their horror, that they possessed another Nazi-saluting animal: an elephant named Stefi.

>>5054482
>pirates: reduced to somali sea thieves
>armies: we could have cats piloting drones and labradors operating carrier strike groups
>greyhound snipers
>orange cats running the base mcdonalds
Not turning your only spare pair of limbs into wings is smart actually

>>5054485
>>greyhound snipers
Have I got news for you...

>>5054487
>video games

>>5054485
>we could have cats piloting drones
Not a chance in hell, pigeons maybe though since they literally were the targeting computer in the first homing missiles.

>>5054493
>it's real

teaching parrots to say racial slurs is the pinnacle of comedy

>>5054730
The tech that went into this is amazing.

>>5056811
That and them headbanging or aggressively swinging their heads while doing it

>>5056866
The technology in early light amplifying goggles and scopes still amazes me. Science was just on such another level before microchips. Now no one can think outside that box.

Hello lads, I'm a bit worried about my mate's beak
Does this look like normal peeling/flaking to you? Physically it feels like quite a thick layer has come off of the tip. He doesn't seem bothered by it and is still eating fine.
I saw a birdie lose his beak and now I'm very paranoid about my guy's beak health

>>5057331
I am no expert by any means but it doesn't seem to be something to be too concerned about. Sometimes beak shedding is just like that, is your mate a Congo or Timneh Grey? If he's a Timneh it makes a lot more sense as they are notorious for beak flaking. As long as he's being fed a diet that is nutrient rich he should be fine.

>>5054443

>tfw our dad's African grey managed to bust out and flew away 2 years ago

At least my dad lives in Portugal in a rural but populated area with lots of trees and water sources. Neighbours have reported seeing him around eating from their bird feeders or bathing in their water fountains... I really hope he is alive. There wre many other animals here including corvids.

>>5057359
That puts my mind at ease, thank you.
He's a Congo grey, I've noticed his beak similar to that before in the past, but the "break" between the two parts didn't feel this steep before.
Cheers

>>5052679 (OP)
Rip george

WHY THE FUCK HAVEN'T WE DOMESTICATED THEM YET???

>>5057592
You don't have to domesticate any birds. You just raise them in captivity and they're just like that. Doesn't matter what it is Cassowary, eagle, vulture they just turn out personable.

>>5054393
Silence fag

my parrot just laid an egg
no mate, apparently that's a thing
doesn't seem very interested in the egg at all, is that a good thing?
wtf do i do

>>5059931
It's clear it doesn't want it, hard boil it

>>5057767
Apparently they are still pretty wild even when raised in captivity. What I don't get is there is a ban on them for the pet trade yet they arn't even threatened compared to other parrot breeds in the pet trade.