Blog #1
Bird are birds, we are humans.
Yet strangely both often forget this important difference.
Background: 'Conrad', as seen below, is a 2 year 4 month old free range (free to fly around his owners house as he wishes) yet captive (not free to fly outside) Sun Parakeet , he is playful and protective like most Sun Parakeets.
Conrad seen here moments after landing on his owners dinner plate...
If we study his behaviour now, from a human perspective Conrad is seen to be 'aggressive'. Efforts to get him off the plate are met with bites and squawks. Conrad, being a bird, does not recognise ownership of food. It is not 'our' plate, it is just food that he has spotted unattended and now he is just having a snack.
From Conrad's perspective, we humans are just funny looking big birds, when we come in with our big hands to claim food that Conrad has already found unattended, it is we humans who are being the aggressors.
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