Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 3, 2023

How many parrots talk to each other? I guess most of us fail to consider that we as humans used to ugh and grunt too, and we as babies could only cry so many different ways: why do we seem to fail to apply this logic to animals? How often do we try to give animals a way to talk? Do we do it enough? How many other Koko's are there?

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JULY 7, 2022

Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females. Apparently, King Parrot are an Australian grindcore band formed in Melbourne in 2010. So, I can only give you the sanitized version of the joke, in which humans have been replaced by birds.

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JULY 1, 2014

Parrots Over Puerto Rico is a wonderland of colors and shapes. The story of the Puerto Rican Amazon, also known as the Puerto Rico Parrot, Parrots Over Puerto Rico is illustrated with deeply hued collages created by Susan L. The parrots called as they looked for deep nesting holes in the tall trees. Other Europeans came.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Noisy Yellow-crowned Parrots indicated that it was time to stop the car and get out. These large parrots are popular in the pet trade, and that’s a likely source of the population of this species on Trinidad. These scarce residents are rarely seen – and even when visible, are usually quite wary of humans.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot. ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here. That sounds pretty cool.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Here is a picture of many Cobalt-winged Parakeets and Orange-cheeked Parrots sharing some good mineral water without causing any harm to the environment: Cobalt-winged Parakeet and Orange-cheeked Parrot Here is another large group of Parrots and Parakeets flying without polluting the air: Dusky-headed Parakeets – Mealy Amazon Parrots – (..)

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JUNE 26, 2021

Even if the birds could speak like humans, their instincts would still come into constant play. No, you wouldn’t be allowed to count those avian ambassadors but human attendees would benefit from interaction and insights coming straight from the birds. There would also be drama! Scarlet Macaw.

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AUGUST 6, 2022

Looking for parrots at sites with rainforest? As if in defiance of the dominant human presence, they roost in large palm trees, even in urban parks and along noisy, busy roads. Although it might not occur in the high elevations nor so much in dry forest, you would be hard pressed to not see this long-tailed bird in other places.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) “The slender-billed cockatoo ( long – billed corella ) is a very affectionate, easy-going pet bird and one of the best talking parrots” ( source ).

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. At this hour I am a reluctant, under-caffeinated sherpa – and concentration must be given to the dangers of the footpath ahead.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

As if the Chachalaca and Magpie-Jay noises weren’t enough, there were also many pairs of White-fronted Parrots screeching as they flew overhead, though I never managed a photo of those. This Chachalaca took a break from its busy morning of squawking to check me out. The White-throated Magpie-Jay: such a beautiful bird!

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. We can say with much certainty that the majority of people admire and are fascinated with the resplendent colors of macaws, parrots, toucans and hummingbirds.

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APRIL 27, 2016

The world’s largest parrot is also a flightless inhabitant of the night, because of course it is. Endemic to New Zealand, it has been declining since humans arrived but crashed after the arrival of Europeans and the species Europeans introduced. Kakapo are strange birds.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

Seals can mimic humans, you've heard of Crows and Parrots mimicing human speech but Seals can to, one Harbor seal named Hoover was able to mimic his owners voice and could say stuff like "Get over here!" " Which was similar to what their leader would say for them to get out of the water.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I saw it in a park in Delhi, and indeed the HBW remarks that it “has adapted well to human habitation, and is common and widespread in the parks and gardens of cities such as Delhi” (I once had a visitor from India here in Shanghai, and he asked me if/why there are no birds in Shanghai.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants! Because of this, the city is in flux, with city streets adding new buildings and restaurants all the time.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those of us who chase rare birds for our counties, states, or other human-made geographical distinctions watch birds for more reasons than the twitch. A few other birds also showed, highlights including a tree full of screeching Mealy Parrots but other birding experiences par excellence were waiting in the wings.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. Gulls are generalists, as a group, and unfortunately that does not get a lot of respect from humans, even though we’re the greatest generalists of all.

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JULY 24, 2014

However, the typical birding experience for someone down here also includes a large menagerie of other species such as Orange-winged Parrot , Mitred Parakeet , Egyptian Goose and Nutmeg Mannikin. Their loud, descending whistles, gurgles and screeches are a common feature of parks and suburban neighborhoods in parts of Miami-Dade.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

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JUNE 21, 2016

In humans, adults (probably mainly mothers) do this thing called “motherese” which is talking in a way one would normally not talk to another adult, to a baby. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J. Nilsson, A. Nord, and S.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Especially when there are some ‘invasive’ species, like the parrots, that seem to bring little documented harm and a great deal of joy to observers.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Mealy Parrots made their presence known, and we were treated with excellent views of Blue-headed Parrot that flew into a tree we were already examining. Familiar, but beautiful regardless: Blue-headed Parrot Another small parrot species landed on a tree in the distance. Meanwhile, the forest edge was awash with birds.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds. You can follow her on Twitter @LizVGreene or dig deeper into her internal musings on InstantLo.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.

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MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

There is very little human presence in the area so all of the “treasures” were mainly natural apart from a piece of a broken glass bottle. The long grasses and reeds were perfect for them and they had plenty of protection along the length of the river. Great Bowerbirds bower. Black-necked Stork.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Robins at the White House Tips for Your Christmas Bird Count Another reason not to own a parrot We Should Arrange a Cage Match with Dick Cheney About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Dusky Grasswren has multiple entries as they seem to find a human squatting on a desert mountain fascinating. My first Princess Parrot ? My only close view of Spotted Nightjar roosting by day was gleaned while relieving myself under the tree next to its, the dark eyes peering through the slits at me with caprimulgid disgust.

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JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males. White-tailed Tropicbird by Nathan Swick Renato chose an impressive parrot: Birding is a wonderful experience in itself. This resplendent whopper of a parrot is as charismatic as avian megafauna gets.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Black-winged Lovebird Another endemic now shared with Eritrea, this cute little parrot is not uncommon in forest edges and woodlands, even occurring in towns and cities. They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Falcons are now known to be related to parrots; vultures to be cousins of storks. With the advancement of the tech world, being a raging nerd is no longer necessarily something that can make someone an outcast, as long as said nerd can maintain rudimentary social skills and a semblance of humanity.

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JULY 7, 2021

A Yellow-crowned Parrot digs in. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. It is my hope that they all can continue to benefit from this rewilding project; I shall gladly handle the complaints from human quarters.

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JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth. They just sit and pretend not to be there to avoid interaction.”

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Part of it is because they are parrots, and most people really like parrots.

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