RE: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-14 Thread James Smith
African Greys have been trained to be remarkably entertaining, identifying colours, shapes and objects with very large vocabularies. They have always been my favourite bird but unfortunately the one I owned had been mistreated by its previous owner and was psychotic around humans. Eventually I

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-10 Thread G
Yes, because a talking chicken is still delicious. It makes one wonder, if chickens could talk like parrotswould we eat them? :) -Gel ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Ray Champagne
Wow, that was really amazing. What a cool bird. At 08:41 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote: Any of you see this: http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html I wonder if I could teach it ColdFusion cheap labor crackers anyone?? ;-) -- Yves Arsenault

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Adam Haskell
Honestly its not an amazing bird...an amazing trainer really...most of those type of birds are capable of such things, its just a matter of having a caring, commited, somewhat obessive crazy, trainer. Regardless though it was very impressive. Adam H On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:37:55 -0500, Ray

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Tony Weeg
you can almost envision her cd that she plays for the bird all day long, heck i bet rocky, my dog, could do the same if he listened to a repetitive cd all day long... either way, WOW, great show! tw On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:17:32 -0500, Adam Haskell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly its not an

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Gel .
I think it was a combination of the bird and the trainer. There was this research project which showed that dogs actually do understand over 200 spoken words. There have also been tests with parrots that show that they actually understand some of the words and commands , and don't just

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Adam Haskell
Depends...do they cost as much as Parrots? B/c if a parrot was cheaper and meaty enough I would eat a Parrot, I am unbiased in my choice of bird. Adam H On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:12:58 -0400, Gel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it was a combination of the bird and the trainer. There was

RE: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Dawson, Michael
It all tastes like chicken, right? -Original Message- From: Adam Haskell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:12 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: This is an amazing animal... Depends...do they cost as much as Parrots? B/c if a parrot was cheaper and meaty

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Frank Mamone
Truly amazing! I wonder how long to took to get the bird to do that. - Frank On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:41:39 -0400, Yves Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any of you see this: http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html I wonder if I could teach

Re: This is an amazing animal...

2005-02-09 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Why not, we'd probably end up selecting out the boring conversationalists. larry On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:12:58 -0400, Gel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it was a combination of the bird and the trainer. There was this research project which showed that dogs actually do understand over