A Peeling Parrot
Right now my parrot is barking. No, I’m not kidding. She hears Toby barking outside and starts mimicking him. She does a pretty good job of it, too.
A little while ago she was eating a grape. She’s funny about them. She’ll only eat one if she sees a person eating grapes and they give her one. I tried pretending to eat a grape and give her one and she wouldn’t take it. But just let Young Son walk by munching on a grape and she’s eager to pluck one out of his hand.
She has a system to eating them. She doesn’t like the juice to drip in her cage, so she either hangs out over the edge, or uses one of the papers on top as a plate. She rolls the grape around in her mouth until she gets the peel off, then eats the inside of the grape.
She does much the same with apples, carefully munching the fruit while leaving the peel behind.
What a crazy bird! I never know what she’ll do next.
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posted by Rural Writer @ 9:45 PM
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4 Comments:
How funny! What kind of parrot is she? We had a cockatiel who used to beep like the microwave. I'd be upstairs and hear the microwave go off and wonder what was cooking that I had forgotten about. That was about the extent of his charm, though. He was a real grouch.
I've read that many parrots are like 2-year-old children who never grow up. What a thought! :-)
She's an African Grey parrot, a rescue. She can imitate the microwave also, plus a whole lot of other sounds. And yes, parrots are like 2-year old kids... but an African Grey is said to have the EMOTIONAL level of a 2-year-old, and the INTELLIGENCE of a 5-year-old. Which makes life REALLY interesting sometimes!!!
I think her eating peculiarities are a sign of intelligence, too.
What a beautiful bird!
There's not doubt she's intelligent - she can think of some GREAT messes to get into. ;-)
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