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[mlp]

The dog bed is interesting, but I suspect that it would fail in my house - my guys make a point of piling up on my side of the bed, and I have to use extreme force to get them to move. I'd be the one sleeping in the dog bed, and then as soon as they realized that "Hey! She's sleeping over there now!" they'd try to pile in there with me.

 

[mlp]

 

[FortyTwo]

Everything about Alex the Parrot makes me so melancholy.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Everything about Alex the Parrot makes me so melancholy.

I heard an episode of Radiolab that had a bit about Alex that left me sobbing.

 

[FortyTwo]

I heard an episode of Radiolab that had a bit about Alex that left me sobbing.

It just goes to show that animals are WAY more sapient than people care to/want to acknowledge.

 

[Envy]

 

[kibbleforlola]

Everything about Alex the Parrot makes me so melancholy.

I've seen several specials on Alex. He was an amazing bird. He even made up words when he didn't know something.

 

[KLS52]

 

[Cerebellion]

Artist link: http://www.deviantart.com/#/d5p3qo1

 

[mlp]

Everything about Alex the Parrot makes me so melancholy.

I think the whole point about Alex is that he wasn't the smartest parrot in the world." (I know you didn't say that, FortyTwo - the picture made that potential claim.) Dr. P had someone pick a bird at random for use in her experiments, so that no one could say that she had picked the most intelligent one.

Many parrots are remarkably adept at human language and have strong reasoning skills. Someone I know on the bird board I frequent talks with her flock of macaws as though they are special needs children, and they all know the difference between first person singular and second person singular and us the pronouns appropriately in their speech. It's not something she has trained them to - they have picked the concept up simply from her talking to them as members of her household.

There are many things about Alex that make me melancholy, not the least that he spent every night alone in the lab, which is a terrible thing to do to a flock animal, IMO.

 

[FortyTwo]

I think the whole point about Alex is that he wasn't the smartest parrot in the world." (I know you didn't say that, FortyTwo - the picture made that potential claim.) Dr. P had someone pick a bird at random for use in her experiments, so that no one could say that she had picked the most intelligent one.

Yep! I've read that before. From a small-town pet shop, I believe.

Many parrots are remarkably adept at human language and have strong reasoning skills. Someone I know on the bird board I frequent talks with her flock of macaws as though they are special needs children, and they all know the difference between first person singular and second person singular and us the pronouns appropriately in their speech. It's not something she has trained them to - they have picked the concept up simply from her talking to them as members of her household.

There are many things about Alex that make me melancholy, not the least that he spent every night alone in the lab, which is a terrible thing to do to a flock animal, IMO.

That always pisses me off when I read about it. He very clearly wanted her to take him back at times, and she kept him from it. Hell, they probably could have even taken him outside and he wouldn't have run off if she'd asked him not to.

 

[yakherder]

This had me laughing pretty hard... Be warned before you watch, a shrimp and a goldfish get eaten by angler fish :/

 

[thefadedone]

 

[yakherder]

And this one too...

 

[thefadedone]

 

[SuicideBlonde]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/trendin...?pb_list=26b8970e-9767-4d75-b991-7552a5360c45

Seeing eye cat for a blind dog, cute!

 

[kazyeeqen]

And this one too...

Oh my goodness it's hard to breathe! What the hell is that thing?!

 

[Moll Flanders]

This has to be in my dream home. It would have to be the type of glass that you can only see out of and not in though!

 

[KLS52]

 

[thefadedone]

^ So true!