African Grey Parrot Has Sense of Humor and Huge Vocabulary

re: African Grey Parrot Has Sense of Humor and Huge Vocabulary

ceseme — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:13:45 GMT

My brother got a cockatiel for his daughter and they raised it from a baby. She would sit on the rail of their deck and fly around the yard sometimes. One day, as I was watching her, the neighbor boy spied her in the tree and came into the yard. He climbed the tree to "rescue" her. When he got where she was sitting, he tried to get her to come to him, but she replied, "Stupid! I like this tree!"

re: African Grey Parrot Has Sense of Humor and Huge Vocabulary

shiva — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:50:19 GMT

Awhile back I was reading about how animals,.. such as migratory birds are able to sense direction during their long distance travels across the earth. .. It was interesting to learn that apparently all creatures have magnetic particles located in specific places in their bodies. With so many birds, .. these particles are said to be located in their breast feathers. It is believed that an animal is able to sense direction by way of these magnetic particles interacting with the magnetic ley lines in the earth. ....... Human beings also apparently have magnetic particles in the bones composing their nasal cavity and it is believed that we also have this instinctual capacity to sense direction. There have been experiments done at Oxford Univ. to attempt to measure this. Of course it would seem that through the process of evolution, we humans have unknowingly shut off our awareness from the "instinctual" aspects of our being. As a result we are seemingly unable to utilise such innate capacities as the ability to sense direction. ........ Such abilities have been known to exist amongst individuals within such cultures as were characteristic of tribal peoples before the encroachment of modern civilisation.

re: African Grey Parrot Has Sense of Humor and Huge Vocabulary

Birdlady — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:51:35 GMT

I love birds. They do have great personalities and can do quite amazing tricks, sounds, and talking. I am biased though because I own 2 cockatiels. =p My birds are like children to me.

re: African Grey Parrot Has Sense of Humor and Huge Vocabulary

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:35:39 GMT

Unfortunately, I have met many animals and birds with more personality, vocabularly, and sense of humor, than some allegedly healthy, and well adjusted, humans...some, of course, work for government agencies though...

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Josh Rubin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:57:23 GMT

This may sound crazy to some, but here are my thoughts. What is people that have down syndrome, schizophrenia and so on were normal and we were actually the ones with problems? What is animals, things in the environment, etc actually could communicate and we were the ones that actually had a low level of communication? What is we were the ones that actually vibrated at such a low frequency that we could not hear, see or understand of all this and it is always going on?