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Sucking your finger.

Postby Ozii » Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:41 am

Whenever Peaches goes onto here back, you rub her belling, and she grabs your other hand, and sucks on the finger, why is that, as that is what she is doing often, even when she is not on her back. Is there a reason? could she have been taken from her mother to early?
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Re: Sucking your finger.

Postby Zanizaila » Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:51 am

Perhaps. But birds don't "suck" as mammals do, since they don't have lips and no mammaries.
So a bird having been taken to early and showing baby-behaviors would rather do things like begging from a spoon, wanting warm and moist food and eating like a chick (bobbing head up and down when swallowing).
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Re: Sucking your finger.

Postby liz » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:52 am

Birds have better sencers in their tongues. He is tasting you, smelling and feeling the texture of your skin as well as heat from your body. He is being personal.
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