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Parrot Saves Child’s Life
Who says having bird brains is an insult? When a babysitter stepped away from her ward for just a few minutes, Willie the parrot knew that the child was choking and calls for help. Amazing!
Parrot Closed Beak With Cops
What did you teach your African Grey Parrot to say?
- Polly Wanna Cracker?
- Cursewords?
- Flirtatious remarks?
- Whistling?
How about his name, your name and address? Yosuke, the Nakamura’s pet parrot flew the coop and got lost, he was very friendly with the veternarians and staff, but was closed beak with the cops.
Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor’s roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.
He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.
“I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura,” the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.“We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we’ve found Yosuke,” Uemura said.
The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.
But Yosuke apparently wasn’t keen on opening up to police officials.
“I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me,” Uemura said.
UPDATE – Witty Zoo & Tiglet Too
Comments: The photos above are genuine, but there is more to this story than meets the eye.
To begin with, the snapshots were taken at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand (near Bangkok), not some nameless zoo in California. Moreover, it would appear that the sad tale of the tigress falling into a deep depression after losing a litter of cubs was fabricated, as was the claim that the piglets were substituted for the deceased cubs by zookeepers in order to console the “mourning mother.”
As it happens, this sort of intermingling of species is not at all unusual at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, where “creating successful relationships with animals of different species” is something of a guiding principle. The facility, more accurately described as part zoo and part circus, boasts offbeat attractions like basketball-playing elephants, “lady crocodile wrestlers,” and a petting zoo where customers can bottle-feed baby tigers with their own bare hands. Visitors have reported seeing tigers, pigs, and dogs all housed together within the same enclosure, with sows nursing tiger cubs and tigresses nursing piglets “adorned in tiger-print costumes.”
The costumes are strictly for show, by the way. The mother tiger pictured above, who has been photographed on other occasions suckling piglets au naturel, was herself nursed by a pig in infancy and apparently regards the other species as family, not prey.
We all know the heart felt loss when a mother loses their baby shortly after birth. It seems that animals go through the same depression when they experience a death of their litter.
This tiger was overwrought and sinking into deep depression after losing premature triplets, when the zoo came up with the idea to put little piglets in her cage to nurse. The tiger mother took to them completely since she too was nursed by a pig as a cub.
She came out of her depression and is doing fine. The piglets don’t have to wear those tiger pj’s for Momma tiger to love them. She takes care of the cubs as if they were her own fur and blood.
Okay, I’m not going to make any horrible references to delicious pigs in a blanket.
Who Says Animals Don’t Fall In Love?
Watch these otters holding hands as they float on their backs. I was very tired when a dear friend sent this to me and it made me melt.
Now if only someone could sing “Muskrat Love.”
Thank you, Carol for sending.
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