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Jennifer wrote:Serenity wrote:
I do know that Macaws can blush if they get embarrassed…
And scream really loud when scared……Or happy, or sad, or bored, or excited, or upset, or because there is a fly on the ceiling, or when they see the mailman, or because the sky is blue….
😆ROFLMAO!!!
Sometimes it takes us ten minutes or more to figure out what set Huggie into her freaky-squawk/scream……. it can be a pencil on the table or a box in the other room, no doubt left there to attack her when she isn’t paying attention. Anything out of place or shadows! I do know why they say a goffin is not a good apartment pet LOL duhVery funny thread! Birds, love them!
twindragonsmum wrote:Hiya, Mel!
Me boyohs have a question for you regarding the ‘crest’ on the male dragon. This last week the family hit So Cal to visit family and we got to go tour Mission Inn in Riverside. They have two exquisite Macaws named Napolean and Josephine. We noticed that they used their feathers as a form of communication; raising it and lowering it and cocking their heads from side to side – extrememly expressive creatures. Me boyohs want to know if the male dragons communicate in the same sort of way; do they raise and lower their crest in order to help express themselves like the Macaws do?
thankies,
twindragonsmum 😕
Yes, I always thought they would they signal their emotions with their crests like a parrot does. The Male dragon has a raised crest with the expression my macaw has when he feels his territory (the whole house) is being invaded by an individual he doesn’t like ( anyone who is male)- kinda half-raised “hackles” on the back of his head. The female dragon has a low, flattened crest signaling contentment. Because of mold making constraints, it is difficult to make a dragons’ scales stick up enough to really express the full range of emotions that a bird can. Dragons use the language of cats and dogs too.
For some reason, I don’t picture Oriental dragons with movable crests . Don’t know why.Very cool! Thankies! Interesting to me that me boyohs picked up on something like that – I certainly didn’t…
twindragonsmum 😀
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Melody wrote:I don’t picture Oriental dragons with movable crests . Don’t know why.
Probably because most Oriental dragons are supposed to be very calm and benevolent. They don’t do displays of aggression… 😀
Jennifer wrote:Serenity wrote:I do know that Macaws can blush if they get embarrassed…
And scream really loud when scared…
…Or happy, or sad, or bored, or excited, or upset, or because there is a fly on the ceiling, or when they see the mailman, or because the sky is blue….
😆
Cleaned a house for a woman that had a Macaw and it would SCREAM…. It was so loud and piercing that you could feel your ear drums vibrate… I so disliked cleaning that house… almost walked out of it a few times just because of the bird. Pour thing wasn’t really happy there… it was plucking its own feathers out. Always wanted a Macaw… up to that point.
Jennifer wrote:Serenity wrote:I do know that Macaws can blush if they get embarrassed…
And scream really loud when scared…
…Or happy, or sad, or bored, or excited, or upset, or because there is a fly on the ceiling, or when they see the mailman, or because the sky is blue….
😆
Lovebirds do the same thing, and they are just as loud, especially when you have a pair!
Serenity wrote:Jennifer wrote:Serenity wrote:I do know that Macaws can blush if they get embarrassed…
And scream really loud when scared…
…Or happy, or sad, or bored, or excited, or upset, or because there is a fly on the ceiling, or when they see the mailman, or because the sky is blue….
😆
Cleaned a house for a woman that had a Macaw and it would SCREAM…. It was so loud and piercing that you could feel your ear drums vibrate… I so disliked cleaning that house… almost walked out of it a few times just because of the bird. Pour thing wasn’t really happy there… it was plucking its own feathers out. Always wanted a Macaw… up to that point.
Haha! A lot of people think they want parrots until they realize what it’s actually like to live with them… for 50+ years… XD Screaming, tons of mess, and the intelligence of a toddler… for 50+ years. It’s not for most people!
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My art: featherdust.comThe trainer at the Birmingham Zoo, when I was docenting there, had a scarlet macaw that had been ‘donated’ largely because she wouldn’t stop screaming. Part of the retraining involved putting the scream on command (why bother to scream if you don’t get anything for it?), which meant it could then be ‘displayed’ for people who thought they might want a pretty bird like that, ‘and they’re easy to take care of, aren’t they?’
Am so glad the dragons are quieter than macaws!
skeeterdeee wrote:My mom has a Macaw. One day it started “coughing” and kept that up for a week. So, she took it to the birdy doctor and said, “my poor bird keeps coughing, what’s wrong with her?? Is she sick??”
The doc looked the bird over and asked her, “do you cough a lot?”
She said, “yes, I have asthma.”
The doc said, “she’s fine! She’s just mimicking you!”
🙄A little off topic, but I thought it was a funny Macaw story!
I had a quaker parrot (sadly, I moved to a state where they are illegal, and Kechara found a home with someone who to this day spoils her rotten -g-) and she was a walking tape recorder, but only for things you DID NOT want her to learn.
Spend hours, days, weeks, months on trying to get her to say her name? Nope… took TWO YEARS.
Hear a car outside make the death scream of a transmission melding together ONCE? Her happiest noise EVER, repeated often at 2 in the morning…
::headdesk::
To get her to stop, we had to wait until she made the sound and then GO SILENT, and TURN AWAY from her, ignoring her altogether, something she HATED. Any other vocalization, she was praised and feted, and given treats and toys. Evil noise? Cover cage, and leave her alone for 10 minutes without saying a WORD to her.
It took three WEEKS to get that to stop ::shudder::
I’m sticking to cats from here out… even though my bengal likes leaping into the shower, THAT I can deal with over some of those vocalizations…
Cleaned a house for a woman that had a Macaw and it would SCREAM…. It was so loud and piercing that you could feel your ear drums vibrate… I so disliked cleaning that house… almost walked out of it a few times just because of the bird. Pour thing wasn’t really happy there… it was plucking its own feathers out. Always wanted a Macaw… up to that point.
Haha! A lot of people think they want parrots until they realize what it’s actually like to live with them… for 50+ years… XD Screaming, tons of mess, and the intelligence of a toddler… for 50+ years. It’s not for most people!
Oh I can handle everything there but the screaming that rattles the ears… that hurts! Plus all the other Macaws I have been around growing up were always calm, they didn’t scream… this one did and it was a wake up call for me.
Jennifer wrote:Haha! A lot of people think they want parrots until they realize what it’s actually like to live with them… for 50+ years… XD Screaming, tons of mess, and the intelligence of a toddler… for 50+ years. It’s not for most people!
Sad, but too true. We’ve got the noise and mess x7, and we run the gauntlet from tiny terror parrotlet up to giant psycho ‘zon, almost all of them from people who had them a few years and then decided they couldn’t handle it. I need to introduce my pied crow sometime too, he’s just the neatest animal I’ve ever met.
Speaking of crests on the male, and the expression of the macaw, I can visualize that male dragon pinning his eyes now.
Kachina wrote:Jennifer wrote:Haha! A lot of people think they want parrots until they realize what it’s actually like to live with them… for 50+ years… XD Screaming, tons of mess, and the intelligence of a toddler… for 50+ years. It’s not for most people!
Sad, but too true. We’ve got the noise and mess x7, and we run the gauntlet from tiny terror parrotlet up to giant psycho ‘zon, almost all of them from people who had them a few years and then decided they couldn’t handle it. I need to introduce my pied crow sometime too, he’s just the neatest animal I’ve ever met.
Speaking of crests on the male, and the expression of the macaw, I can visualize that male dragon pinning his eyes now.
My friend has a pair of pied crows! They are amazing, but a whole other challenge when compared to parrots, hah!
Yes I’ve always imagined the dragons to do that. 😀 I’ve been into fantasy and dragons since I was 4, and as an artist I think that I (like many people) come up with a way that our ‘head dragons’ look and act, and mine have always been very bird like. 🙂 By ‘head dragons’ I mean the way that one personally envisions them.
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