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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 125224" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just out of curiosity - are these birds male? Or this one, at least? because birds CAN tell gender apart and they can sometimes take a set against a particular gender, especially if it's the opposite of the person they bonded with.</p><p></p><p>At the zoo where difficult child 1 worked for a while, they have a Wedge-Tailed Eagle who they were trying to train (years ago) for public displays (although this training is more important in their day-to-day management). They found that this bird was VERY fussy about who worked with him, what colour food pouch they carried, they had to always wear exactly the same clothes etc. Finally they had to admit defeat and I believe nobody has been inside that cage for years. They throw food in to him and talk to him through the wire. It's a big flight cage, but he was a mentally disturbed bird before they got him - he'd been poached (as in stolen from the nest) as a chick and raised by a clueless idiot who had to get rid of him when he got vicious as he got older.</p><p></p><p>They did notice that female keepers had more success with him - he would viciously attack any human male. But then he began trying to mate with his female keeper (not good, when it's a Wedgie trying to do this - they are BIG birds) and they shut everything down with him.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with your parrots - I wish we lived close enough.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 125224, member: 1991"] Just out of curiosity - are these birds male? Or this one, at least? because birds CAN tell gender apart and they can sometimes take a set against a particular gender, especially if it's the opposite of the person they bonded with. At the zoo where difficult child 1 worked for a while, they have a Wedge-Tailed Eagle who they were trying to train (years ago) for public displays (although this training is more important in their day-to-day management). They found that this bird was VERY fussy about who worked with him, what colour food pouch they carried, they had to always wear exactly the same clothes etc. Finally they had to admit defeat and I believe nobody has been inside that cage for years. They throw food in to him and talk to him through the wire. It's a big flight cage, but he was a mentally disturbed bird before they got him - he'd been poached (as in stolen from the nest) as a chick and raised by a clueless idiot who had to get rid of him when he got vicious as he got older. They did notice that female keepers had more success with him - he would viciously attack any human male. But then he began trying to mate with his female keeper (not good, when it's a Wedgie trying to do this - they are BIG birds) and they shut everything down with him. Good luck with your parrots - I wish we lived close enough. Marg [/QUOTE]
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