Lone Star Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 I can't tell if it's me that is confused, or you. Just from the title of this thread, obviously the original poster didn't read the entire article. If they had, they wouldn't be asking if 'they helped her' or not. (Mainly because the article states quite clearly that there was no 'her' to help!) Then there's the other responses saying that they were predicting that 'she' was helped and all was well. That's why I was asking if they read the entire article, or just 'skimmed through it'.... LOL! I had some friends who lived out in the boonies and raised Peacocks. Pea hens have a blood-curdling scream, and it carries a long way. When new neighbours moved onto adjacent land, they heard the screaming and called the sheriff, believing the guy must have been beating his wife to death. Yeah Dust, pea fowl DO have a call that DOES sound like a woman screaming. I would have loved to seen the bird owners expression when the cops showed up expecting to find some 'battle field conditions' when they knocked on the door!
Lone Star Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Here ya go, Chief. If that was directed at me, I realize that Luna is a girl's name....its also the name of the bird that was mindlessly calling for 'help'. The owner, named Evelyn DeLeon, wasn't home...and obviously not needing the help the stupid bird was calling for.....
firedoc5 Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Talking birds just repeat things they have heard many times. So did this bird learn to say "Help me, Help me!" by hearing someone crying for help? Or did someone think it would be funny to teach him/her to say it for kicks & giggles? The bird had to have heard it somewhere. I know it refers to the bird watching TV, but of all the phrases repeated, why would it learn just that one?
Richard B the EMT Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 A buddy of mine had a Myna bird, a type that can be taught to talk. He felt the bird would try talking with it's human beings in residence at his apartment. He rigged a continuous loop tape in his tape player (this was 1968 state of the arts!), that kept repeating "Hel-lo, Hu-man". The bird just went "Awk!" With no people in the apartment, my friend left for several hours, with the tape player going, and as he descended the steps, he heard the following "conversation" between the player and the bird" "Hel-lo, Hu-man". "Awk!" "Hel-lo, Hu-man". "Awk!" "Hel-lo, Hu-man". "Aaawk!" When he returned 4 hours later, the bird was silent, but the tape player was going "Awk! Awk! Awk"!
Lone Star Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Now that's just plain funny! I don't care who you are, thats funny right there!
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