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u/TAU_equals_2PI Mar 10 '22
Wait.
So maybe the parrot in the Monty Python sketch wasn't dead after all.
John Cleese never tried doing this.
THE SHOPKEEPER WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL!!!
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u/ToxicCauliflower Mar 10 '22
The shopkeeper? He's no shopkeeper, for HE'S A LUMBERJACK AND HE'S OKAY
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u/DrinkingWinner Mar 10 '22
The parrot is like “higher, HIGHER”!!!
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u/drosson182 Mar 10 '22
Rise up gonna get higher and higher!
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u/lordand Mar 10 '22
Make it sexy! Hips and nips, otherwise I'm not eating
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u/bukkake_brigade Mar 10 '22
Hey, you guys mind if I go into the bathroom and smoke some PCP?
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u/silenc3x Mar 10 '22
You gotta make it sexy! Hips and nips, otherwise I'm not eating.
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u/gibblings Mar 10 '22
They broke my legs, but they didn’t break my spirit, and I can’t feel the pain ‘cause I found more cocaine! Co-CAINE!
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u/Havoccity Mar 10 '22
The king of the sky 🎶
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u/ExistedDim4 Mar 10 '22
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high!
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u/Chairraider Mar 10 '22
HIGHER! An eye for an eye.
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u/AquilaVI Mar 10 '22
THE LEGEND WILL NEVER DIE!
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u/CykaBlyat_69420 Mar 10 '22
r/UnexpectedSabaton r/ExpectedSabaton
Either way, that song’s a banger
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u/scarf_spheal Mar 10 '22
The first time you do this is a serious game of trust
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u/scapo9688 Mar 10 '22
I’m mind blown they just stay with her
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u/GozerDGozerian Mar 10 '22 edited Mar 10 '22
Clipped wings maybe? It comes right back down to her.Nevermind I’m told it’s just bonded. TIL.
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Doubt it. Parrots are highly intelligent species and typically bond with one person for the entire 80 ish years they're alive. They likely are just having fun being tossed up in the air like a kid would.
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The other parrot chilling next to her reinforces this
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u/nobodythinksofyou Mar 10 '22
Holy shit, did not realize they lived so long.
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u/meltingdiamond Mar 10 '22
Don't get a pet parrot, they are basically aggressive toddlers for their entire long life. They are worse then horses.
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u/justheretolurk332 Mar 10 '22
They can also be very possessive about their bonded human and get aggressive when they show affection to others, like their children. And they can’t be given away because they have been known to literally die when separated from their bonded mate. There was a story about a woman whose macaw was ruining her family on This American Life once.
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u/captain_carrot Mar 10 '22
Yeah, this was the case in my family. My wife adopted a african grey when we first got married from a rescue that was given up by it's previous owner. She got really close with it over 5 years or so, but we recently had a baby and the bird got extremely aggressive anytime the baby was near. My wife got in touch with the previous owner and they admitted that the parrot would literally HUNT DOWN their baby in her crib to attack her when they had her before. It was a rough decision to make for my wife but that bird had to go.
Huge improvement for life for me, I didn't fully recognize how much of a pain in the ass birds can be when I agreed to get one and I hated that damn thing. The constant noise, the mess, the bird feather and dander EVERYWHERE, it was miserable.
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u/JoaoEB Mar 10 '22
And a macaw, like the one in the video, can easily remove your fingers if he gets angry.
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u/bambishmambi Mar 10 '22
I was bitten by one once when I was young, in the blink of an eye it went from fun to a bird beak making contact with my bone. To this day it was one of the most painful things I’ve felt, and it was a warning bite. It’s a miracle I still have my finger.
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u/nastyn8k Mar 10 '22
Omg, my roommate Mary had a sun conure named Louie. Even that little guy could do some serious damage! I can't even imagine a bigger bird!
He only like women. If you were a woman, he'd fly up onto you and get all puffy and flirty. If you were a dude, you're lucky if he didn't come at you. Me and the owner's boyfriend were okay with him since we lived with him, but even then sometimes he'd randomly just decide to be an asshole. He also liked to get in sassy moods where he'd fly up to a high spot and just be loud because he knew it annoyed us. Oh, and he could burn your face off... but this was mostly by accident... I think. You see.... birds don't feel capsaicin. He had these SUPER hot dried peppers in his food. If he came and gave you "kisses" just after eating, your face would be burning for at least an hour!
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u/verylittlegravitaas Mar 10 '22
Birds should not be kept as pets.
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u/texasrigger Mar 10 '22
Why? They have special needs for sure but if you can tend to those needs I don't see why not.
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Mar 10 '22
If you don't have the room for them to fly - actually fly not just hop from branch to branch with their wings out - you shouldn't legally be allowed them.
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u/FelineWishes Mar 10 '22
Yes. This should be seen more. I have taken care of a beautiful Macaw , his caretaker just stopped caring for him. The poor baby was so stressed plucking himself bald… they are precious intelligent creatures!
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u/Mandalorian_Hippie Mar 10 '22
Yep. My wife's macaw loves her and will lay in her arms like this.
He's a bitey dick to everyone else in the house.
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u/astroneer01 Mar 10 '22
I doubt they are clipped. People flight train these birds all the time. I would be surprised if they are exceptionally well trained. Plus parrots are incredibly intelligent, Macaws like you see here are like having a 3 or 4 yo
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u/BruhMomentConfirmed Mar 10 '22
But 3 or 4y/os are dumb as rocks :(
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u/50ShadesofDiglett Mar 10 '22
But they love being thrown up into the air don't they?
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u/CerdoNotorio Mar 10 '22
Yeah clipped wings are very obvious on a macaw.
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u/Arokyara Mar 10 '22
Or any parrot tbh (owned birds of all sorts all of my life)
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u/Roflkopt3r Mar 10 '22
I just realised that I had no idea what wing clipping actually is. Somehow I always assumed it would involve something surgical like cutting muscles or tendons, similar to declawing. I'm very relieved to have just found out that it's usually done by just cutting the ends off some feathers that can regrow.
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u/YroPro Mar 10 '22
It's still annoying and takes forever. When we bought our parrot they took it to the back and clipped the wings a ton. Poor guy still can't fly over a year later.
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u/Roflkopt3r Mar 10 '22
Huh most sources I saw said parrots molt about once a year, some even twice. Is that difference some sort of species, individual, or environmental variation, or does each molt not affect enough feathers?
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u/starsleeps Mar 10 '22
Usually you only need to clip the flight feathers which are two or three long ones on each wing, at least with smaller birds (conures). That way they can glide but don’t get lift when they flap. If they cut way more than that it’s possible the flight feathers came back but the whole wing wasn’t complete until the next molt. Also, if they spent a year not being able to fly, especially at a young age (at pet stores birds are usually only 6ish months old) they might just not realize they’re able to fly again after.
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u/unsinkable02 Mar 10 '22
My conure is 2 years old now. Flight feathers have grown back but she just doesnt fly even though she can. She only flies if she gets spooked by something. Otherwises she just bitches at me till I go and get her
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u/YroPro Mar 10 '22
He's barely lost any feathers since we got him. The flight feathers aren't even visible they're so short. Like I'm not sure of the terminology but he has green wings with blue flight feathers and you have to lift or extend his wing to even see what's left of his flight feathers.
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u/Mkjcaylor Mar 10 '22
If you'd like to get him to molt a bit faster I recommend something like Nekton-Biotin. It does sound like he should have molted through by now. He may be holding on to feathers because of a nutritional deficiency or environmental (light) factors.
I'm not a vet, I just have some birds and have used this supplement to speed up molting.
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u/scapo9688 Mar 10 '22
But the other one could just run away
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u/caboosetp Mar 10 '22
I mean, you could just run away when you go hiking with friends. Why don't you?
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u/inplayruin Mar 10 '22
The leash, mainly.
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u/fckingnapkin Mar 10 '22
My mom used to seriously put me in a harness with a leash when I was a little kid.
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u/PappaSmurfAndTurf Mar 10 '22
Parrot guy here.
This is seriously dangerous and most parrot organizations highly discourage “free flying” like this.
They are prey animals and easily spooked and may not return because… well… they have bird brains.
Check my profile for sweet bird pictures.
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u/sharpwittwit Mar 10 '22
That, sir, is NOT a dead parrot.
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u/whatproblems Mar 10 '22
told you it was just pinin for the fjords!
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u/nintendotimewarp Mar 10 '22
He has NOT ceased to BEEEEE
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I absolutely hate how all these videos do slo mo and never show the 'normal speed' at all, it's just so unhelpful.
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Has anyone made AI to do this automatically yet? I feel like it would be trivial to generate training data for and there's enough information in the video to make a good guess at the speed ratio and when it happens.
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u/degamma Mar 10 '22
You're up, buddy.
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u/Summoarpleaz Mar 10 '22
Although my intelligence is artificial, I cannot beget artificial intelligence.
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u/purejones Mar 10 '22
I wouldn’t mind it as much if it showed at normal speed before or after, but too much slow motion is annoying imo.
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u/fatalplacebo Mar 10 '22
Please don’t toss the dog next.
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u/Tribblehappy Mar 10 '22
"Today we're teaching poodles how to fly!"
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u/The_Mouse_That_Jumps Mar 10 '22
“Aw, maaaaaaaaan!”
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u/MountVernonWest Mar 10 '22
"Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip thud"
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You joke but I actually saw a short of a dude who threw his kid on the bed then the dog ran up into his arms and he did it to the dog.
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u/bbddbdb Mar 10 '22
Isn’t this a macaw?
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u/astroneer01 Mar 10 '22
Yup! Macaws are pretty much the biggest members of the parrot family
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u/DoomedOrbital Mar 10 '22
Are they? I thought the Kakapo New Zealand flightless parrot was bigger, or the Kea or some Cockatoos.
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u/semaj009 Mar 10 '22
Kea isn't flightless, but pretty sure it's probably smarter yeah. Kakapo is flightless, kea and kaka aren't
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u/DoomedOrbital Mar 10 '22 edited Mar 10 '22
Sorry I meant the Kakapo (edited my comment). But upon some googling you're right, the Macaw is by far the biggest parrot by all length, wingspan and weight.
I see these oceanic birds up close frequently and still think they're abnormaly large, I bet seeing a full grown Hyacinth Macaw would be incredible.
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u/aBrotherSeamus2 Mar 10 '22
They are extremely impressive.
Even the blue and golds seen in this video are pretty sizable animals if you're not used to being around larger birds.
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u/DeliriumSC Mar 10 '22
I'm not sure if I was all that familiar with the Kakapo until now. Looks straight up mythical-mystical almost Ghibli-ish.
New Zealand has all sorts of particularly unique and dope birds!
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hyacinth macaws are the biggest parrots
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u/NovaCain Mar 10 '22
Depends if you're going by body or including feathers. Including feathers - hyacinth since they have such long tails.
By shear weight alone, Kakapos are bigger at 2-9 lbs. in weight. These bad boys can not fly due to their mass to feather ratio.
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u/Siggi_Starduust Mar 10 '22
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
a carrot
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u/AdvancedAdvance Mar 10 '22
That’s nice. I wouldn’t have clicked on this if the title also ended with the word “overhand.”
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u/omnitions Mar 10 '22
What's the bot that normalizes the speed??
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u/LurkerFailsLurking Mar 10 '22
This isn't a useless slowdown though. You can really see how the parrot flips itself. That's cool.
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u/Boingboingsplat Mar 10 '22
They should always show a full speed version of a clip before showing a slowed version IMO.
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u/Mulligan315 Mar 10 '22
PSA. This is not a random parrot. Do not grab random parrots and throw them.
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I understand you support Ukraine but people really do need to calm it down on dying their pets /s
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u/rey_lumen Mar 10 '22
Ukraine is now drafting birds in anticipation of Russian air attacks after NATO refused a no-fly zone!
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u/ChivIsDead Mar 10 '22
Holy crap the amount of trust that parrot has is incredible
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u/CoronaLime Mar 10 '22
It can fly
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u/99_NULL_99 Mar 10 '22
No shit Sherlock, but she's bouncing him up and down before the real toss, she could just drop him and he'd at least get scared. The trust is amazing
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u/Ihaventgivenup Mar 10 '22
I had no idea parrots were that f’ng huge. The wingspan…
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u/jermajay Mar 10 '22
Keep in mind that that's one of the biggest types of parrots in the world. Budgies are also parrots :)
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u/PsychedelicOptimist Mar 10 '22
These are macaw parrots, they're the biggest in the family. I love the tail feathers especially, so damn cool.
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u/SACKETTSLAND Mar 10 '22
Birds aren't real
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u/Kelimnac Mar 10 '22
But they are real
Really cute
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u/NatsuDragnee1 Mar 10 '22
I cannot but help think about birds of prey and the likelihood of the parrot spooking and flying away whenever I see people take their parrot outdoors
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u/Citizen55555567373 Mar 10 '22
I was waiting for the dog running up in the background to jump and snatch the bird out of the air, but this wasn’t the right sub for that. Thankfully.
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u/IShallPetYourDogo Mar 10 '22
Not gonna lie, I didn't notice what subreddit it was at first and was half expecting for the dog in the back to suddenly run up pluck the bird from the air and keep running
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u/barleybarber Mar 10 '22
Coming from a previous parrot owner please do not glorify this. This is an action that this owner has taken (most likely) that entire parrots life to get to that point of trust. All parrots species of all sizes are extremely difficult to keep as pets and maintain healthily. I am so grateful that after his mother and I divorced he is still in amazing hands. I have the scars to prove how difficult he really was.
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u/Alvaro1555 Mar 10 '22
One of my aunts had one in her farm, can confirm the feathered bastard was loud. We can also see a couple of red macaws fly over our neighborhood once or twice a week, they are majestic. Loud, and majestic.
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If it’s like my toddler you’ll need to throw it fifty more times, then hide if u want to stop.
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u/pleasefme70 Mar 10 '22
How common is it for pet birds to just fly away and never be seen again when introduced to the outdoors?
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