These Funny Parrots..
In the old days
The fact that the parrot can talk, able to remember and repeat words and sounds heard, was noticed long ago. The ancient Greek poet and scholar Callimachus compared with a parrot meaningless chatting speaker. In China since ancient times and until now, this bright, talkative bird is a symbol of empty and depleted women of easy virtue. But there are positive comparison. For example, many people believe that parrot brings welcome rain. Its beak was used as an amulet that saves of fever and demons. In Hinduism, the bird – an indispensable attribute of the god of love Kama. In Egypt, the parrot was the symbol of the soul, a messenger linking the human and the underworld. In the XIII century in India, the unknown author wrote the novel “70 stories of a parrot,” in which a pet appears wise, saving the family home bird. On a plot of the story, a husband left for a time in faraway countries, a parrot, meanwhile told his young wife, a fascinating tale to distract her from evil desires.
Bird-spy
In China, by contrast, the hero of many folk tales is a parrot that tells about husbands dissolute behavior to their wives. Strangely enough, but living in the house, the parrot can be silent, but can tell that absolutely no good for other people’s ears. This feature stems from the fact that parrots best remember the words spoken with an emotional lift. The example – an event that occurred in May 2002 in the British bird sanctuary. Working in the reserve woman took home a parrot just for one night. The whole evening it was silent dejected moving bird, a closer for the night allegedly fell asleep. But as soon as it was brought back to the reserve in the morning, it opened his beak and began to talk nonstop for several hours. Theme for the bird’s monologue was the intimate life of spouses. Parrot in details, with all the intonations described the previous night. Husband and wife did not know where to hide from the staff and were ready to strangle them ungrateful witness of love games. In the end, the parrot was isolated in a separate room as long as it would forget what has seen.
Talk to me …
If you want such incidents not to happen, you just need to keep parrots away from the bedrooms and generally keep track of your speech in front of them. It is true that memory of parrots is short, and if the words they learned people do not repeat long time, the birds forget them. Much more interesting to teach talking a feathered for a reason, a particular meaning. However, this will take time. If the parrot ia shown a subject while loudly pronounce its name the bird will soon respond appropriately and correctly call the objects and even comment on the simple steps. It is necessary to bear in mind that parrots easier to imitate a female voice, so that for the men recommended for teaching birds to use a higher pitch than usual. This sentence to be learned should be prononced loudly and slowly, without variation, with the same intonation, preferably the same height. Typically, the first word that stores and delivers a parrot – it is his nickname. But, then, to learn it may take about three months, so you need to stock up on patience. However, the training period depends on the breed, and on the personal abilities of the feathered student.
Dancing Snowball
The American researchers believe that parrots are able to not only memorize the words and objects, but also to manipulate concepts complex for animals. For example, the eleven-year-cockatoo Snowball, living in U.S. is able to synchronize its movements to the rhythm of music, that is, literally – to dance. Former owner of Snowball told the scientists that first parrot imitated the movements of the dancers in front of the children, a later started to move to the beat. His favorite tunes, as it turned out performs the band “Backstreet Boys”.
Observations showed that the movements of cockatoo are not random, and it actually moves to music. Now scientists have to figure out whether the “dance” of parrot is his natural movements, for example, in the mating season, or it has developed some kind of proper motions. Why? It turns out that the ability of the birds move to the rhythm of legs and head can shed light on the treatment of diseases such as, say, Parkinson’s disease, with the help of music in humans.
They are so different
In addition to talkativeness, undemanding and fast captivity of living home, people, no doubt attracted by parrots wonderful color. Few of the fauna can boast such a rich coloring. True, most of the main color – green, with numerous shades: pale green, emerald, aquamarine and many others. But in nature there are red, blue, yellow, snow white, gray and even black parrots. Alfred Brehm wrote: “What would some of those wonderful tropical forests without parrot? Dead garden magician, silent cemetery wilderness. Parrots waking and support life there, acting both on sight and by ear. “
Parrots are not only color but also size. Smallest – Dyatlov parakeet, grows to ten inches. Largest – Hyacinth Macaws, whose growth together with the tail can be 110 inches. Such a huge parrot can easily bite off a finger.
The object of smuggling
Most rich of parrots is Australia – on the continent is living half of the known species. After it stands Central and South America, and in Asia and Africa there are few these birds. South African parrots in general are not found. Once North America could boast of its own, Caroline parrot, but in the beginning of XX century it was completely destroyed.
Parrots – team birds. Young ‘bachelors’ travel – in search of forage in small grops, at night gather in a huge “rookery”, occupying several adjacent trees and sleep tight pressed to each other. Sexually mature birds, ready to breed, prefer to arrange a kind of “communal flats”, placing their nests as close as possible to the neighbors. Married couples live together before the end of life, a is one of the spouses die, the second one immediately finds a new companion.
Most of these birds prefer to settle and look for food in tropical forests, where as home for them serve tree hollows, a sometimes abandoned by the inhabitants of termites. Tree parrots fly well and great climb trees, using not only the claws on the feet, but strong and sharp beak. True, there are exceptions: for example, some Australian parrots prefer open spaces and prairie. Unlike their forest counterparts, are able to quickly move through the ground.
The main food for parrots is a plant food – seeds, fruits, nuts are often very hard, thanks to the powerful jaws of a bird is easy to split.
It is nice to have in the house a piece of exotica. But irrepressible desire of many collectors has generated a huge and ruthless “Black Market”. According to Interpol, the illegal gains from the sale of exotic animals, including tropical birds, among which the leading place take parrots, are in second place after Firmware volume sales of drugs, overtaking with the arms market. Catch or buying up the local population of several hundred birds, “businessmen” wrapped them with duct tape and send it by regular mail to other countries. With such a fanatical transporting only a few survive…
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