planet's dumbest animal?
my brother and his missus bought a budgie a couple of years ago. it generally lives with my dad, since he works from home, so it gets more company there. dad texted him this morning to say: "what sort of budgie did you buy? one that is scared of bananas!"

turns out the bird was flapping joyously towards him when he clocked the big scary yellow budgie-eating fruit in dad's hand, panicked mid air, squawked, forgot to fly and just splatted onto the floor where he sat there blinking and waiting to be rescued. stupid budgie. birds are supposed to eat fruit, not run away from it. lucky for him that his great great great great great grandparents were bred in captivity. he wouldn't have lasted a day in the wild! we had one when i was a kid, it was 10 times brighter and not scared of anything... this one is a runt.

alt: doubtless he would be frightened of a spoon too.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:54, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Don't they eat nuts and seeds rather than fruit?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:55, Reply)

And cuttlefish, no?
Cos there are obviously loads of cuttlefish in the jungle.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:56, Reply)

they sharpen their beaks on it
don't think they actually eat it. might be wrong though.

ours just ignores it anyway.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:59, Reply)

mostly they eat seeds
but you should also give them fresh fruit v regularly, as they would eat that too in the wild, and a diet of seed alone is too calorific.

we try. we try, try, try. but that feckin budgie is scared of everything. tiny slices of apple, grape, banana, toast, spinach... everything they are supposed to love, he just shits himself and then ignores it. but the big scary humans who could crush his one ounce frame with a thumb? he loves them.

THICK.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:58, Reply)

You should pull his head off, sellotape it back on and sell him to a blind child

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:59, Reply)

What's that from? That rings a bell.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:00, Reply)

dumb and dumber

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:01, Reply)

'pretty birdie, pretty birdie'

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:02, Reply)

Thank you.
I think I'd wiped that horrowshow from my memory.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:02, Reply)

Dumb and Dumber is amazing, try it with MOAR MDs

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:04, Reply)

I do not care, for it is fucking funny!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 15:02, Reply)