This is too funny! A man and his Cockatoo have an argument. Definitely NSFW!

[A HERETIC I AM]

Take 3 minutes and have a bit of a good giggle!!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Favorite is ~2:00 - 2:07..."Shut the F up!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. As a parent of two parrots, I know how that works

yes, there are times they DO NOT want to step off.

I am glad they do not "speak" English, but you can tell when they are pissed. That was not an act.

[LiberalElite]

3. Polly needs a time out nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That is exactly what happens with ours when they pull this crap

They actually get time outs, like the little three year olds going on five they are (one if close to 25 the other is going on 16)

And they do.

And now I am going to wonder if they are swearing at me in Nanday and Sun Conure respectively. They get that vocal (though they never quite learned human speech. Conures are not that "gifted."

[tblue37]

4. To yell that way, he must have heard a lot of such yelling. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Yeah, the bird did,

but they do not just replicate human speech. That bird was not going to step on that finger, no way, no how... the way the crest was going, that was not an act. I wonder at the size of the bird's pupils. IF they are huge, bird is getting ready to not so gently nibble on your finger.

[Aerows]

8. Cockatoos are EXTREMELY jealous

and tend to bond with only one person. Obviously, he wasn't the person the bird was bonded with.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. They have been compared to babies that never, ever grow up

One reason we discounted having one, EVER.

Mind you, all parrots are very young babies, but Cockatoos take the needy, love me, jealousy to a whole new level. And to boot they live well beyond most average human parents.

The San Diego Zoo had one that died at... they think, 109, when care takers retired, or died, especially the latter, bird was taken to funerals.

We have two conures, and the younger one has a tad of jealousy with her older brother when Cookie decides to come on my shoulder. But nothing like that.

[Demeter]

17. I've had many such conversations with my autistic adult child

and now I'm depressed.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. The video description on YouTube says this bird was adopted by that man....

And his video channel shows he has at least one other and some experience;

https://www.youtube.com/user/furman045/videos

I just thought the vocalization was hilarious, that's all.

[itsrobert]

14. I hope it is not a sign of arguments/fights in the home

Mr and Mrs going at it.

[Aerows]

7. Cockatoos are HILARIOUS

They tend to get attached to one person, and FREAK out if separated from them. A lot of birds do it, too. It's just hilarious when Muluccan and Umbrella Cockatoos do it.

[KittyWampus]

12. Somewheres on youtube is a head banger cockatoo. LOL

If I got a bird, it'd be a Conure, so much personality in such a pretty little package.

[Aerows]

15. I had a cockatiel for 18 years

He was insanely jealous of anyone but me being around me, and preened constantly when he was with me. He was a sweetie pie named Spencer. He was absolutely obnoxious to anyone that wasn't me, despite my attempts to make him feel comfortable around others. The only other creature he put up with, was surprisingly, the Maine Coon cat that weighed 20+ pounds and could have eaten him in a second, but was as gentle as a lamb around him.

Go figure.

[Aerows]

10. Parrots annoying cats

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. LOL! Love that vid!

Obviously the dogs in this video needed some help from the parrots!

[Aerows]

19. This is awesome

[Digit]

42. Cuteness overload! n/t

[Demeter]

16. the worst part is, the man is losing the argument

[Rozlee]

18. My nephew has one that goes wild during wrestling matches.

They watch wrestling matches on Spanish TV and he'll be cursing up a storm in Spanish and excitedly bouncing all over from the couch to the TV.

[Aerows]

20. Another swearing parrot - African Grey

[Aerows]

21. I had the joy of taking care of an African grey

parrot for a while, because I was the only person besides her owner that could get close to her. She was beautiful, but even the girlfriend was terrified of her. I rapped her on the beak, cawwed at her, and we were friends.

Easy money .

[Fred Gilmore]

22. I Have A Blue & Gold Macaw

That was raised inside of a bar. He loves to dance to music, but he has quite the vocabulary. When my M-I-L came over for the first time, the Macaw looked at her and said "Nice Tits Baby"! I almost died.

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. LOL! Love it! n/t

[3catwoman3]

30. OMG, that is hilarious.

How did your MIL react?

[Aerows]

23. This pretty much took the cake

[Diclotican]

25. A HERETIC I AM

A HERETIC I AM

wow that was one bird who had a bone to pick with his owner I would say

Diclotican

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. LOL...Yes he did, Diclotican....

Yes he did!

I especially like the part at about the 1:30 mark. The bird seems to be shouting "You never listen to me! You don't care what I have to say!"


Glad you liked the video!

[darkangel218]

27. LMAOROFL!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. And as the birds demanded their dinner

we were laughing, whether they were cursing us for not giving them their curry fast enough...

Bed time, cookie got argumentative, as he sometimes gets. I think running this video while they were still awake was not a good idea.

[Violet_Crumble]

31. Mine started eating the timber on my balcony while I was watching this!

I'd like to blame the clip, but that's their normal routine, plus seeing they're wild, they're not really mine. But those fucking sulphur crested cockatoos own my balcony and they're loud about their ownership. They're probably living proof that it takes a lot of repetition for cockatoos to pick up human speech, coz for the amount of times I've yelled at them to fuck off, they still haven't repeated it back at me yet...

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Conures are not really gifted

but we know when they are throwing a tanter tantrum

[Aerows]

29. Best

[Aerows]

32. And this one can't be missed :D

[A HERETIC I AM]

34. LOL Aerows.....something tells me you have been waiting for just the right thread to let loose with

a bunch of bird vids you have favorited!


LOL.

[Aerows]

35. Uh...

:shifty eyes:

I'm not guilty or anything.

I just like, uh, cute videos. With birds. Uh.

(Resumes reading weighty political thread in attempt to find something to comment on that doesn't involve loving cute bird videos which I do not ever or ever will like.)

Look, there is a shark video!

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. LOL

Yeah...I'm totally fooled!

[Aerows]

37. I adore birds

I went to a park in Winter Haven FL, and had about 12 lorikeets sitting on me. I didn't even have any food and nobody in the group garnered even the attention of one of them. Come on, a Great Horned Owl and I exchanged hoots for several nights. Wrens built nests (despite my having a cat) in the eaves and lived to tell about it, and one landed on my shoulder when the were flying away.

I adore cats. I also absolutely adore birds.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. I am not immune!

Though I've never owned one (my dad wouldn't have it) I had many friends who had aviaries of various sizes growing up and one who had a Blue and Gold Macaw.

I absolutely understand the appeal. They can be comedians, no doubt.

Speaking of the Owl, I live in Jacksonville and can hear owls almost every night. I had a Great Horned fly right over my head on my back porch earlier in the year. There are scores of them in this area. Lots of other raptors as well. My brother has a place in Lee County, in SW Fl and has Swallow Tailed Kites that nest on his property each year.

I am glad this thread has been as well received as it has. DU and GD in particular can be very hit and miss.

I thought it could use a good chuckle.

[Aerows]

40. This is a lorikeet

Imagine 12 of them all over you lighting down because you had sweet nectar fruit

[A HERETIC I AM]

41. Yup. A neighbor kid across the street had several Rainbow Lorikeets.

Gorgeous birds.

[Aerows]

43. It's a crime to keep a single one

they do not fare well singly. Some small parrots thrive under those conditions, but lorikeets need at least another bird to prosper.

[Aerows]

44. It is well received by me, for whatever that is worth

Since you live in Jacksonville, let me ask you if you have experienced the PLAGUE OF FROGS. The little bitty ones that totally take over the entire area.

I remember that clearly from living there as a child. I got some of the best samples of grasshoppers when I was about 9, but then there was a flood, and a PLAGUE of those tiny frogs so bad you couldn't even take a step without a bunch of them being there.

[A HERETIC I AM]

45. LOL...Not yet!

I've been working here since Sept of 2011 and renting this house on a tributary/creek to the St. Johns since November of 12. Had some good sized grasshopper last summer but not an excessive number of frogs. Just your regular number of the little green tree frogs. You can certainly hear plenty of them at night, however.

I put up a thread about some Manatees in the waterway behind my house last year;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022972166

I live about 5 miles as the crow flies from downtown, but this is a VERY cool little cul-de-sac. Owls, and other raptors abound, lots of lizards and anoles, Raccoons, Possums and my neighbor spotted a Coyote!

A little too urban for deer, but they aren't far away. A quick 6 or 7 minute drive and I am in the countryside.

[Aerows]

46. I wouldn't put any area too urban for deer

When you see them walking down the damn road in a group, and see a wild pig in suburbia, you realize ... you aren't too far from the sticks even if every neighbor is 50 feet from you.

[Aerows]

47. These guys can form a plague of toads

http://srelherp.uga.edu/anurans/scahol.htm

https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/herpbiology/toadjubilee1.htm

[Aerows]

39. Peeved Umbrella Cockatoo

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. When cookie does that

We ask him what does he want? Usually it involves food or water and changing it. Yup, he does that. We have learned to understand him, and after 25 years we'd better.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. By the way, let me thank you.

I spent a wonderful Sunday going over energy projects in San Diego, go ahead, ask what you want to know. As long as it involves wood to steel replacement poles...

After I get that article mostly hammered, I am about to know more than needed about the Sempra Energy wind project in Baja (yup, literally same EIR crap, different language) so at one point I felt like screaming like a certain bird...laughing is good for the soul.

Looking for one particular thing that has little to do with the project itself, but all to do with money laundering charges in Mexico City and very local politics. Oy.

[Skip Intro]

50. I laughed, but was that poor bird being traumatized?

Was that stressing the bird emotionally for bored kicks?

I hope not, because it was funny.

And I'm cool with it as long as the bird wasn't being stressed just for fun.

(he/she sounded pretty stressed at some points)

[Aerows]

51. Absolutely not

That's just a cockatoo for you. Anyone that has been around parrots knows this is just fun to them. They squawk at people if they like them, know them or consider them part of the flock.

[nomorenomore08]

52. I'm sorry, but a cockatoo yelling "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" is inherently hilarious. Period.