Body Language

[Roonil Wazlib]

So, with time and research, we humans can begin to understand the behaviors of parrots and respect and understand what they are trying to tell us, and therefore act accordingly.

Julian has been out with me for about three hours. He didn't seem to want to go play on his gym or go to his perch by the window, instead wanting to be with me when i gave him the option to be else where, which was fine - but about fifteen minuets ago he was getting too much for me to handle, and i was getting a bit agitated with him. So I told him to "go fly" and thrust my arm in the air, and usually, if he doesn't want to go, he will not, haha. But this time, he flew to his other areas and is currently not bothering me at all - Do you think its just chance - or do you think maybe hes sensed my frustration and decided to leave me alone?

Makes me feel like because I respected his wishes from day one, hes respecting mine to?

[Wolf]

I firmly believe that they not only read our body language better tan we read theirs, that they can also feel our emotions better than we feel them in others. Almost empathic if you will allow this. We have all on occasion walked into a room of people and knew that something was wrong as soon as we entered the room and since in their natural state their survival may depend on such recognition I believe that they are better at this than we are. Parrots live in a flock whose essence is cooperation for the benefit of all, so I see no reason that if we respect them that they would not also respect us.

[Roonil Wazlib]

It is truly incredible! Amazing creatures the world has to give!

[Wolf]

They have me fascinated!!

[Pajarita]

Yes, they do 'read' our body language and understand what different tones of voice mean. No doubt about that! It's partly because of the type of social structure they live in the wild (cooperative living requires a more in-depth knowledge of the other individuals of the social group) but it's also because parrots are different from other birds. Normally, birds that are born precocial (like chickens or ducklings which come out of the egg walking and eating on their own) come from eggs that have a larger proportion of nutrients and protein in them as the babies need to come already developed enough to survive while birds that are born altricial (naked little things that cannot walk and need their parents to take care of them until they grow enough to come out of their nest - like canaries and parrots, for example) come from eggs that do not have large proportions of nutrients in them. Parrots are different in that, although they are highly altricial (much more so than passerines which are born altricial but develop much faster), they come from eggs that are very high in nutrition, just like precocial birds. Why? Because the extra nutrients go to 'feed' their larger brain and high intelligence so, although they hatch not ready and able to be on their own, they do come out ready and able to suck up knowledge big time and, as we make them imprint to us, they start learning about our body language and tone of voice almost from birth.