Re: Albachussetts on the tracks
I was watching a program from Pbs that questioned why are parrots so smart. So they went in the jungle to study them and found out that they HAD to map and remember all the trees that flower and fruit every 5 years, so that was the reason why their brain had developed that much. And speaking about maps they found out the london cab drivers have a big hipotalamus, or in everyday language are smarter, because they NEED to know every street and so on. So after visiting China and South Corea i'm getting to my point which is, we get results and successes when there is NEED. Look at all the inventions when did they happen. During the world wars physics and other sciences boomed not only because Einstein happened to get out of bed on a sunny day, but because there was also need for the things that we today have and take for granted.So i'm thinking, how do we artificially fabricate need. /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif :smash:
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When birds go bad.This has to be the funniest thing I've read all week.
The bird sanctuary workers claim Barney can be rehabilitated and taught decorum. Anyone out there have a Macaw and know if that's possible?
Swearing parrot banned
July 27, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
A FOUL-mouthed parrot previously owned by a lorry driver has been banished from public areas in a British animal sanctuary after repeatedly embarrassing his keepers.
Barney, a five-year-old Macaw, is now kept indoors at Warwickshire Animal Sanctuary in Nuneaton, central England, when outsiders visit after abusing dignitaries with swearword-littered insults.
"He's told a lady mayoress to f--- off and he told a lady vicar: 'And you can f--- off as well'," sanctuary worker Stacey Clark said.
Nor did the forces of law and order escape, she added.
"Two policemen came to have a look at the centre. He told them: 'And you can f--- off you two w---ers'."
Clark said sanctuary workers believed Barney either picked up the phrases from television or was taught them by his previous owner, a lorry driver who emigrated to Spain.
"He does say 'Hello, big boy' and 'Thank you' when you give him a biscuit," she added.
"But it's mainly naughty words and always to the wrong people. We're trying to teach him not to swear. Macaws are very intelligent birds."