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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
 |  Subject: 'Splain this behavior  Wed May 30, 2012 12:12 am | |
| I had to move Scooter's cage to the opposite wall from Scotty's, which means squeezing into the room through an 18" gap until I can get a smaller office desk!
I watched the way this interaction is playing out, and it went like this. Scotty very deliberately headed over to Scooter's cage via the route of hanging way out the edge of one seed guard, grabbing across to the other one, and edging around to the front while hanging upside down. At this point Scooter perambulates down to investigate/warn him off, Scotty, while swinging himself around upright, utters "Step up!" and then chaos breaks loose with beaks flying. At which point I grab Scotty and then rearrange the room, this is obviously going to keep happening.
What the heck does he think "Step up" means? | |
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henpecked
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 67
Location : NC/Fla
My Birds : Jake hen YN (his)
Stacy hen YN (hers)
Kia male Panama
Kong hen Panama
Nitro male YN
Micky male Red Lored
Binkie hen YN
Many other Amazons
Posts : 1372
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Wed May 30, 2012 12:02 pm | |
| "Come closer so i can get ahold of your butt" | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Wed May 30, 2012 3:24 pm | |
| - henpecked wrote:
- "Come closer so i can get ahold of your butt"
ROTFLMAO | |
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Wed May 30, 2012 11:06 pm | |
| [quote="henpecked"]"Come closer so i can get ahold of your butt"[/quote ROFLMAO! Yep! I think he's RIGHT on!   | |
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crystalsbirdtoys
Senegal
Join date : 2011-05-19
Location : Ottawa, Ontario
My Birds : African Grey - Merlin
Caique - Rosco
Cockatiel - Stryder
Posts : 381
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Thu May 31, 2012 10:07 am | |
| Maybe he's wanting to "Step it Up" and have a Bird Off (I'm thinking Dance off a la Save the Last Dance). | |
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o'TikaandAurora
Lovebird
Join date : 2011-06-23
Age : 34
Location : Victoria, Australia
My Birds : Tim (Red Wing Parrot)
Prince (Blue Princess Parrot)
Chicken (Pearl Gray Tiel)
Malolo (Cinnamon Pied Tiel)
Aurora (Yellow Sided GCC)
o'Tika (Pineapple GCC)
Posts : 147
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:05 am | |
| Rory tells me to 'step up' when he wants out of the cage, and I SWEAR I heard a 'shut up!' out of Tika when Rory wouldn't stop chatting at 3am this morning | |
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Vikki
Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 58
Location : BLAIRSTOWN NJ
My Birds : Sebastian - 7 yr old Harlequin Macaw
Arthur - 12 yr old Jardines Parrot
Pickle - 16 yr old Hahn's Macaw
Ecko - 26 yr old Hahn's Macaw
Plus the 180+ various bird from finch to Hyacinth at the rescue where I volunteer and live...
Posts : 811
| | Subject: Re: 'Splain this behavior Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:14 pm | |
| Yeah, step up means he wants his buddy to step out. I think to most birds they equate "Step up" with freedom, of sorts. Being released from their cage. So yeah, HP hit the nail on the beak.  | |
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