by Pajarita » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:49 pm
Please take into consideration that the bird jumping on the video is a macaw which, same as cockatoos, jump naturally (mine would use hops instead of actual walking when they want to get somewhere in a hurry and don't want to fly -Freddie actually tells himself to "Come on, come on, come on" in the same rhythm as he jumps -LOL) and that the girl is actually playing with the Hy and not just teaching the bird an useless trick. I've never seen a cockatiel jump and I've had a flock of almost 40 of them so I would think jumping is not something that comes naturally to them or even something they enjoy which, in my mind, pretty much nixes this as a useful interaction with them.