What the Parrot Said

27/02/2023

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27/02/2023

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21/02/2023

please comment and share if you find this compels you. It did me. Please help me spread the word. Thank you.

16/02/2023

“Math.” He said, “math”

I was leaning over onto a table where I stood writing an algebra equation so I could obtain the proper dose of medicine for one of my birds. I had long ago learned that rabbit and avian doses are very similar with the results.

Pumpkinhead had said, “math.“ He had said what he observed me doing. I have always had taught him according to the model/rival method of Dr. Irene PepperBerg. Now he was identifying modes of thinking in his environment.

I began to think about sharing this information with other people, and finding myself very skeptical that an audience existed yet who could appreciate this.

It was the beginning of an enlightenment.

06/02/2022

21/10/2021

The red road Flock has arrived. We are all here now. Except for the ones who live in the light of memory.

02/10/2021

Purpose in life. An Oscar cartoon by Rex A. Jones.

02/08/2021

***Feathered Miracle:
More Human Than Human
It’s written about birds.

“Anthropomorphism is a theory which presupposes it’s own validity.“
— Donald R. Griffin, Animal Minds

“This business of killing & eating is a sin in terms of ethical judgment all of the time & is the reason religion was created in the first place.“
— Joseph Campbell, Power of Myth

“The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.”
— Albert Schweitzer, in his Nobel Prize-winning philosophy, “Reverence for Life,” 1959

30/01/2021

This podcast episode is a great introduction to the work of Jen Cunha. And if you don’t know what she is doing, teaching Birds to read, I think you will find it very mind blowing.

I’m listening to From The Perch - Aviculture Today | Reading Parrots! Yes, it's True! with Jen Cunha on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-6n6ra-e52d8c

You might have seen the phenomenon of parrots reading on the internet! B.D. and Dr. Jason sit down with Jen Cunha and find out all about the cognitive abilities of our feathered companions and if they can indeed learn to read and communicate in new and exciting ways. You don't want to miss this epis...

02/01/2021

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