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The Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter
Kea parrots can make a warbling noise that whips other keas in earshot into a playful frenzy.
Kea's are awesome. Scientifically proven.
Raoul Schwing remembers sitting on a New Zealand mountaintop, watching a kea hovering in front of him, just an arm’s reach away. The large green parrot had jumped into an updraft, and was flying into the rushing air with such skill that it stayed in exactly the same spot. And then, it made an almost imperceptible shift in its wings, and shot off like a cannon. Keas do this a lot, and since they rarely hover more than a meter or so off the ground, they’re clearly not doing it for the view. Instead, Schwing says, they’re playing.
That might sound a bit anthropomorphic, were it not for, well, everything else about keas. These parrots are famed for their intelligence, curiosity, and vivacious nature. They’ll chase each other through the air, doing loops and spirals and wheeling side-by-side, before landing in the same spot from which they took off. They’ll toss a rock back and forth, like some kind of parrot tennis. They’ll sneak up and briefly grab each other by the feet. They’ll wrestle: One kea will lie on its back like a kitten, and another will jump on it.
Unlike other birds, which shy away from new and unfamiliar objects, keas are drawn to novelty like moths to flame. Schwing once demonstrated this by asking one of his colleagues at the University of Vienna to shine a bicycle light at some captive ravens. Even though he had hand-raised those birds, they fled when the light came on. But when he did the same to captive keas, half the birds immediately flew over to investigate. This makes them very easy to study in the wild. “For most birds, you need hides and blinds,” says Schwing. “But if you see a kea flying in the distance, you can make as much noise as possible and wave things around, and they’ll make a beeline for you.”
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These two are very very talented .
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@jegga How can you be so ignorant of anchor points?
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@antipodean You'd think the big hooks/shackles they have around the chassis would speak for themselves but , its best for everyone if someone that thick is off the road for a while I reckon .
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@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga How can you be so ignorant of anchor points?
but but but there is a big ole role bar to tie off to.........
They thought they could just role it out of there.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11824120
I'd go for a hole in one
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@canefan everyone would want to be in his threesome....
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@canefan everyone would want to be in his threesome....
A four ball? I don't play well with others
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Stunning 'new' cloud formations captured in updated atlas – in pictures
Roll clouds and wave-like asperitas are among the additions to a new digital edition of the International Cloud Atlas that dates back to the 19th century
Some great names in there.
"homogenitus" - isn't what you smutty pricks think it is (actually my first thought until I remembered my school boy latin))
"fluctus fluctus" - farts a lot
‘Crepuscular rays’ - new character in Star WarsEven a shot of a "primary rainbow with a series of extra, or supernumerary bows inside it, Hinuera, Waikato, New Zealand".
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Things that make you cry with laughter in your office should possibly be avoided.
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@mariner4life Jesus thats wrong. But fuck me, did I laugh.
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Not really awesome, as it would appear to be a confused hunting dog....
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