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My Parrot is Smarter than Your Researcher
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Rick
I agree with you that too, but Aviculture, is still in its infancy. Even now.
Dogs and cats have been domesticated for 100's of years. Birds?
I used to save ALL my old bird magazine, bird breeder and more I have forgotten their names, they were in black & white (my ex tossed them one day). Some were well over 30 years old. Well much of the info was just wrong. But we knew nothing else.
Like "toweling" a bird to tame it. SOOOOO, wrong, it only traumatized the birds even more. I did that twice 25 years ago with a large cockatoo and gave up, it was not working.
Things we were told 10 years ago are now mostly wrong too and stuff from 5 years ago is suspect.
You figure the long life span of birds and the numerous varieties screw up even the most diligent researchers. (like when ZOO 's would put two green Eclectus together and two red ones together and wonder why there were no matings.
You figure that it can take 2 to 3 researchers career span for ONE bird, whereas dogs and cats, only one.
We are learning every day.
Catherine Tobsing |
Great Comment here with true experienced merit to encourage all parrot and bird enthusiasts to share their experiences with all of us. Certaily,"one size does not fit all" as the saying goes, but repeatable observations (which is what science is all about) is definitely worthy of sharing with everyone in the aviculture syber world. Keep up the good work and comments.
Rick
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I am wondering if Aviculture is suffering from the same thing that politics, medicine, and economics suffer. It's not nature that is screwed up, but us human beings. We make observations of one or two birds (or fifty) and then make rules that we are bound and determined will apply to all birds of the same type. I just don't think Nature works that way. The black and white magazines this woman refers to probably were 100% correct for THOSE birds. My belief is that 50 years from now, all the old rules will be back. We humans just keep looking out from our little skulls and making rules for the world. We need to relax.
Stetson
P.S. Just as an observation of something really indicative of what I am talking about. You will note that below, we have an opportunity to do a spell check on this blog. So, wanting to be perfect in all I do, I ran the spell checker. There was only one word that the spell checker on this site didn't recognize, not that I had misspelled it, it just didn't recognize it as a word. That word: Aviculture.
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