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(9,463 posts)LOVE it!!!!
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)True Blue American
(17,981 posts)Several parakeets I can tell you they are smart. They learn to go around you if you try to stop one.
My last one learned to try and land on my husbands newspaper because he knew he would be brushed off. I grew lettuce in a pot for him, but he wanted to eat the other plants. My Grandmother was sitting on the sun porch with him. She said he was like a little kid. Waited until I left the room, head right for the plants I did not want him to eat.
wnylib
(21,312 posts)was a child. I had a cat. The parakeet teased the cat and it looked deliberate. Dickie (the bird) would swoop down to the floor about 6 inches away from where the cat was napping and start whistling or talking. The cat would wake up, get into pounce position, and Dickie would fly up to the curtain rod before the cat could pounce.
It was like watching a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon. One day Dickie did not move fast enough and lost a tail feather. He squawked indignantly from the curtain rod. After that near miss, he stopped landing near the cat.
He wolf whistled my adult, married cousin when she passed by his cage. Cousin thought my father did it and snapped at him about respecting women. She would not believe that it was the bird until she saw him do it. My brother had taught him to whistle like that.
True Blue American
(17,981 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Awesome
Traildogbob
(8,670 posts)Ball handling skills are amazing. Larry has reincarnated into a real Bird.
Sanity Claws
(21,839 posts)Maybe an Australian Magpie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
Magpies are in the crow family and very smart.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)crows and it was amazing how clever they are.
FB47243
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Wish I'd thought of that. You're good FB
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Jetheels
(991 posts)I guess playing is universal. Thanks for posting this.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)MuseRider
(34,095 posts)jaxexpat
(6,795 posts)So egregious you could see it from the cheep seats.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,944 posts)play on little bird.:
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)Probatim
(2,499 posts)Fla Dem
(23,573 posts)intheflow
(28,442 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,693 posts)Skittles
(153,110 posts)seems strange that something that can literally soar through the air would be entertained by standing on a rolling ball