When you just hanging out and being weird together

Came here to say this, but you beat me to it.

It was Jackson, and the parrot was an African grey named Poll

i feel like that bird was probably expressing itself and knew its friend had passed.

Do they like to start at 4:30 like the one at my boyfriend's house? Stupid bird... I love birds, they are hilarious, I've had birds, I even like mockingbirds because they are such characters. I do not love constant yelling outside the window at 4:30 in the morning.

I don't know where the bird gets the energy and how it doesn't go hoarse. I swear he will sing for 6-8 almost non-stop.

I used to have Vivaldi's Spring as my alarm in high school and one of the mockingbirds in my neighborhood learned it. Even after I went off to college that mockingbird was still singing it when I came back home.

There were mockingbirds at the college where I did my master’s work that would stay up all night imitating the beep-beep noise from locking car doors. Made the inevitable all-nighters that come with grad school pretty unbearable.

All the mockingbirds in my area imitate foxes. You know what the fox says?

BRAOOOOW!!!

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I've told this story

Worked at a pet store in highschool and the owner had two macaws she'd gotten after their elderly owner had passed. One day I was opening and walked in while it was dark and the male macaw was moaning "help me, please it hurts. Please someone help me."

So...if you do get a parrot from a recently deceased relative make sure they didn't die around said bird cuz you may relive their last moments forever....

Some of those fucks (love em) can live for decades. So it might be cute to hear "fuck me papi" for a day, but for 30 years.... well ok you sonovabich I'm in.

Believe me, they're fun to visit, but taking care of them is really like having a 4 year old. For decades. My friend has a 30 year Senegal parrot. Over the years my family has watched him when they went on vacation. Birds are extremely needy and need attention, interaction. You can't just like give it some toys and leave it alone. And if they are talkative, you got over that real fast when you're around one 24/7. It's a very rewarding pet, but it requires huge effort.

You can adopt me and when I die you can take care of my cockatoo

Oh sweet summer child, have you spent more than 5 minutes with a parrot?

I would love nothing more than to take care of an annoying parrot from a recently deceased relative

Make your own luck, visit r/dexter.

If you're serious, go to a bird rescue and see if they have any older birds! That's how I got my parrot - adopting an adult rescue parrot is the way to go. The rescue got lots of older parrots from recently deceased folks whose families didn't want the bird. If your elderly relatives don't have a parrot for you to inherit, someone else's elderly relatives do!

Those are the kind of cups you see full of 7&7's at the Canasta table while meemaw's getting a little loose.

Not a super crazy phenomenon actually, if you think about it. Back in the day, there were far fewer versions of mass produced goods. I bet there are a ton of examples of things like this among current grandparents. I know everyone had that same digital alarm clock a few decades ago.

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My parents have that! To be fair, they are grandparents too.

I drink everyone’s grandparents from that cup

My parents had them too! I remember they had kind of an odd feel to them, but I always liked the way they looked. Think they got rid of them before their last move.

That’s what my mom was telling me. She said they didn’t have a Walmart or normal store back then just go and get glassware

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WEEGGNHHHHHHHHH!

It was pretty annoying but in retrospect it's really funny. They're such smart little dinosaurs lol

they just poop randomly, small and frequently, poop balls usually come out with thumb-size tissue paper very easily as they don't stick.

When you figure out their favourite spots to hang out, you can lay cheap newspaper to those spots to throw away to your garden, plants

Mine are potty trained and usually don't go in their cages (even though I've tried to get them to, but my training isn't as strong as the eldest bird's training of them was). They need to go like every 20 minutes so if they're not trained and flighted, they go wherever they are. Mine almost always fly to a poopy place to go.

They can be potty trained! Mine will only poop on her specific perches.

It seems that most animal behavior science of the 19th and 20th century has had something like that as an underlying premise.

Basically something like: "Humans are the only intelligent/sentient beings--we have something special--and if you think you see that thing in an animal, you are projecting."

I was flabbergasted when I saw actual scientific studies with the (OMG!!) amazing conclusion that dogs experience jealousy. This was in 2014 and treated as some kind of scientific news!

Pretty much every dog owner/lover everywhere already knew this, obviously.

Also there's the whole trend (I don't actually know what I'm talking about---but 19th century?) of naming bird species after their tiny brains...

More recently, it looks like the science world is a bit less human-ego-centric in its evaluation of the sophistication inherent to other species.

*We assume is true. The tests used to study animal sapience are heavily biased.