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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:What did he do? He was decidedly a straight male Peregrine falcon who thought he was a person but acted like a bird, so you know... all those women I worked with at that place, from boss to coworker - if they worked with him, they were part of his harem. He was very charming, that's why he made a great educational animal. My experience with Dash's horseshit, after knowing him for years as a volunteer and then working with him as staff, was my boss (a woman) telling me to go clean the carcasses and stuff out of his mew, and then walking off and talking to a couple other employees (both women) on the way in. I got in with a push broom and a rake and never even started cleaning his mew before I saw a 3lb dinosaur made out of razor blades just silently drop to the ground in front of me. He was not happy about what he just saw. It wasn't even that any of us were hitting on each other, heavens no I'm not hitting on a bunch of lesbians; it's just that he's a dumb dinosaur birdbrain, and he thinks he's a person, and it's really weird and hard to deal with in real life when real life stuff happens. I had to throw the rake at him and then run for the broom against the wall, shoo him with the broom and then jump back into the airlock that latched with hook loop fasteners and ditch the broom. It was not very fun. He got to educate a lot of people and make his mark on the reintroduction of his species before he kicked the bucket, though. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:We have a female captive imprinted owl at the tourist center where I work who doesn't get along with any of the female staff. She doesn't outright attack them but she will puff herself up and try to bully them if they get too close to her perch. MrQwerty posted:He was decidedly a straight male Peregrine falcon who thought he was a person but acted like a bird, so you know... all those women I worked with at that place, from boss to coworker - if they worked with him, they were part of his harem. He was very charming, that's why he made a great educational animal. How the hell does a bird even know the difference? It's not like male humans have extra bright plumage and a territorial song.
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Klyith posted:How the hell does a bird even know the difference? It's a great question, and I can anecdotally confirm that they absolutely can. My human-imprinted female lovebird would systematically flirt with any man in the room.
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Subtle visual cues, differences in voice and behavior? Odor perhaps?
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Klyith posted:How the hell does a bird even know the difference? Because they have eyes and noses and ears and brains
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Klyith posted:How the hell does a bird even know the difference? uh
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Klyith posted:It's not like male humans have extra bright plumage and a territorial song. I am wearing a hi-viz shirt and singing Try That in a Small Town
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flock go
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Makes me wonder who the most famous real bird is. That Harvard parrot maybe?
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big bird
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redshirt posted:Makes me wonder who the most famous real bird is. Matt damon?
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Mike, the headless chicken (e: maybe a bit for some) was pretty famous.
Aramis fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Want there a thread a while back about owls with dicks? Was this one of those owls
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Doctor Dogballs posted:big bird He's not real
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The owl died trying to gently caress that building so probably
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The saddening death of bubo bubo.
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redshirt posted:Makes me wonder who the most famous real bird is. it's Taylor Swift innit
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AlmightyBob posted:it's Taylor Swift innit Dee Reynolds
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That King of the Hill episode where Dale gets a falcon and it keeps attacking Bill
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at least flaco didn't fly into the twin towers
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redshirt posted:He's not real he's real big for a bird
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I. M. Gei posted:Dee Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkYh2dvoeN8
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I've been trying to think of any, but can't think of a single famous bird. No hawks or eagles or owls. Like what about that hawk from that Rutger Hauer fantasy movie?
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A senseless death like this should give NYC ample reason to enact building height restrictions. I say no more buildings higher than any trees in central park. All existing buildings taller than that need to be lowered immediately!
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Capitalism is too important to humiliate our big dick buildings, birds just need to move to another city
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redshirt posted:I've been trying to think of any, but can't think of a single famous bird. No hawks or eagles or owls. Alex the African grey
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What of ground beasts then? Put buildings above the ground and below the sky
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The compromise is we demolish the supertalls with the owners of them inside them
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redshirt posted:I've been trying to think of any, but can't think of a single famous bird. No hawks or eagles or owls. the previous famous NYC predator bird in the big city? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYWHh-3rdo
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Speaking of killing chickens, I got to be severely traumatized one week when I was six years old and our family was on vacation and visiting both sets of grandparents. They all raised chickens. At my grandmother's place she declared we should have some fried chicken for dinner and that my siblings and I needed to see how to kill a chicken. Life-skills and all that. She pulls one out of the coop, grabs it by the neck/head and spins it around like a 90 mph underhand softball pitch. The breaking of the neck was audible. From deciding to have chicken for dinner to being prepped that chicken lived only 30 seconds more. That same week, same vacation we go to the grandparent's place on my father's side. "Let's have some fried chicken for dinner!" I was mortified. His method was to chop the head off. Axe, chopping block, hold it down. With the head off he let it run around, headless, until it fell over; a good 20-30 seconds. He would chuckle a bit and so would all of the adults. My siblings and I were just speechless. All in all though, they were very tasty chickens.
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Flavor Bear posted:Alex the African grey The Harvard parrot
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yeah she died a while back and trump buried her at his golf course for a tax break, lol
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I. M. Gei posted:That King of the Hill episode where Dale gets a falcon and it keeps attacking Bill Lol i can hear his screams
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redshirt posted:The Harvard parrot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewf-8rx9_uQ
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I want a parrot so bad
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Internetjack posted:Speaking of killing chickens, I got to be severely traumatized one week when I was six years old and our family was on vacation and visiting both sets of grandparents. They all raised chickens. I like the South Park ep where congress decides how to fix the economy by cutting off a chicken's head and letting its body run around on a game board while a guy plays a kazoo in the background.
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Wifi Toilet posted:A senseless death like this should give NYC ample reason to enact building height restrictions. All existing buildings taller than that need to be lowered immediately! Didn’t that policy already go into effect on 9/11/01?
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Flavor Bear posted:Alex the African grey If dead birds count, Martha, the last passenger pigeon, is one of the most famous. I’m partial to the British war pigeon Cher Ami. Grape-kun has a funny and sad story. Sirocco is one of the more famous living birds, but that’s not saying much.
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Platystemon posted:Grape-kun has a funny and sad story. Is that the penguin that married a cutout of an anime girl?
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Flaco died as he lived, full of rat poison and being ravaged by pigeon herpes. NYT posted:Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl whose escape from the Central Park Zoo and life on the loose captivated New York, had enough rat poison and pigeon virus in his system to kill him even if he had not died after apparently striking an Upper West Side building last month. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/flaco-owl-central-park-zoo-death-cause.html
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