5/29/2023 0 Comments Pebbles the cockatoo![]() ![]() There is an abundance of very entertaining videos posted all over that make life with a cockatoo appear to be the most fun a human could ever hope for with a companion animal. As it turns out, the traits that make us fall in love with cockatoos are the same ones that cause their behavior problems and land them in rescues everywhere. ![]() There are specific traits that they have that make it nearly impossible to avoid anthropomorphizing their behavior. The cockatoo, specifically the white ones, are parrots that excel at pulling on our heartstrings. However, our humanness is also the very thing that makes us try so hard to get it right. ![]() One of the biggest struggles we have in doing things right for our parrots is with our humanness because it makes something that should be completely natural feel like work. It is even harder to WANT to see things from their perspective because sometimes it is a harsh look at the realities of nature.Īnthropomorphizing is a hole we don’t want to fall into. However, we are human, and it is hard to see things from a parrot’s perspective. The “fort” is a nest and the bird is definitely not playing. It has nothing to do with having found their other half. In reality parrots choose mates based on their ability to produce healthy chicks and defend their nest. However, when we allow ourselves that convenience it causes us to make mistakes in our care for our parrots, such as allowing them to “play” in a “fort” they are building inside a dark cabinet. An example of this would be the presumption that parrots fall in love like humans do based on the fact that they choose a mate for life.Īnthropomorphizing is a tool that many humans use to try to make sense of things that they don’t understand. It means to assign human traits to things that are not human, such as a parrot. “It’s probably good they got divorced,” he said.Ī YouTube video of Peaches has received nearly a half-million hits in a week.If you are the kind of person who has scoured the internet to learn everything available about your parrot, you have no doubt come across this word “anthropomorphism”. “She’s already picked out my wife’s laugh.”ĭon Sigmon, a Baptist minister, said he’s glad Peaches isn’t exposed to her screaming former owners anymore. “She says other things too, `I love you,’ `What are you doing?’” said Don Sigmon, 60. If they’re watching TV or need quiet, they’ll simply hug Peaches and she’ll stop screaming. The Sigmons say they don’t mind the rants. “She’ll even go to both sides (of her perch) and argue for both sides.” ![]() “Oh yeah, she goes all out,” Don Sigmon said. Peaches also throws spirited body language into her act, spreading her wings and bobbing her head. “All we know is she is hilarious and has brought so much joy to our family.” “Trust me she is not mimicking me & Don but I was told the first owners separated and she was just acting out what she saw,” wife Elaine Sigmon wrote on Facebook. A screengrab of the cranky cockatoo in action. Still, the Sigmons adopted the 10-year-old bird - and were quickly exposed to her daily rants. The dog breeder warned the couple about Peaches’ outbursts, which he claimed the bird picked up from divorced prior owners. “That’s what she was like and we thought, `Oh, how sweet.’” “She was really loving, you can hold her, hug her, she’ll put her head under your neck,” Don Sigmon told The Post on Tuesday. The Sigmons were struck by Peaches’ friendly demeanor. The Sigmons were looking to adopt a German shepherd six weeks ago and met a breeder who was also shopping Peaches. Peaches, a Moluccan cockatoo, has become a YouTube sensation by spewing obscenity-laced tirades, mimicking her former owners’ marital spats.įriends and family of Don and Elaine Sigmon claim to hear “get out of here” and f-bombs in minute-long daily diatribes thrown by Peaches. This North Carolina cockatoo sure wasn’t living with any lovebirds. ![]()
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