r/wholesome • u/ditzykitz • 5d ago
She got to be a disney princess for a bit š„¹
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u/HASN0FILTER 5d ago
I guess Alfred Hitchcock film was kind of right. Might take a few months but those things will nibble that person down to the bone!
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u/nothingbeast 5d ago
Years ago I went to a zoo that had a lorikeet encounter. A big, netted area where the birds were free to fly, perch, eat... and guests could walk through.
Signs everywhere said "Birds may land on you, but please do not touch them." Fair enough, they warned me.
Those birds spent the next half hour all over my head and shoulders. Got some fantastic pics of me and the wife. But when it was time to move on, they could NOT be removed.
I leaned over to the perches and food to try and entice them to get off, but they were always replaced if they left at all. I raised my hand to "shoo" them off, but not to touch.
The zoo employee inside the exhibit just gave a tepid "please don't touch the birds."
I replied "Hey man, I'm totally open to any suggestions on how to get them off of me so we can leave," but, apparently, that was the extent of his job, because he didn't do anything else.
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u/Sharkbait93 5d ago
He did his job so youāre free to brush them off imo. From my experience of owning one of these persistent grooming bastards stroke towards their legs and theyāll step up and then just yeet them like a frisbee.
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u/nothingbeast 5d ago
Heh... If it was later in the day I probably would've been a bit more hands on.
But we had JUST gotten into the zoo and this was basically the first real thing we did.
I didn't want something that silly to be the reason my day came to an end before it started!
Kicked out for bird touching! š
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u/Sharkbait93 5d ago
Iām telling you. These birds are the most persistent arrogant grooming bastards known to man. Mine would pluck at my weak stubble whilst Iām playing games and Iād just grab him and put him by his seeds and water on my desk and NOPE homie back collecting my hairs for a nest. Absolute menace but damn I miss him
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u/ladydhawaii 4d ago
Like a frisbeeā¦ hilarious.
I once had a domestic parrot land in my yard- I fed him and looked for the owner. Thinking he would safer at my home for the night - I kept him where the dog slept.
Released him the following day. At night came back to my house. I continued to search for the owner- after a couple months of caring for him at night, the bird became very demanding- if I didnāt come home by a certain time- he would attack me. And eventually kicked out my dog from his sleeping area.
I found a nice person who would care for him. But some bird can be grouchy.
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u/Q8DD33C7J8 5d ago
It's most likely your body wash. You probably use a fruit smelling bw and they thought you were a fruit tree.
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u/_bully-hunter_ 5d ago
this place looks identical to a budgie aviary that I visited at the Virginia Safari Park; they also have a drive-thru safari with tons of animals you can feed as youāre going along and other cool encounters
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u/MeFinally 4d ago
Interesting because I was thinking it looked like the one in bush gardens which is also in virginia
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u/_bully-hunter_ 4d ago
ahhh itās very possible, i donāt remember trees being over/next to the one at the safari park so you may be right but I havenāt been to busch gardens in so long that I didnāt even know/remember that they had one lol
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u/Koomaster 4d ago
Iāve been in one of these bird enclosures and was swarmed by birds landing all over me. My family was very entertained. Me less so. Those things pecking at you hurt! They will draw blood!
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u/nothowyoupronounceit 5d ago
Meanwhile my parrotlet hates my guts and will only sit on my finger for millet. Even hired a bird trainer to try to help and she told me āyour bird will never love youā. Lifeās not fair!
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u/TisCass 5d ago
She's getting a full grooming treatment! Our Budgies love grooming faces, our late boy Schnitty used to sit on my mic bit of the headset to groom me. He also plucked my left eyebrow the lil shit, usually while I was trying to game. One of our girls, Chippie, will nibble your face and loves when my husband let's her nom his hand, can't put seed in his hand, must be empty l9o
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u/Writingtechlife 5d ago
Oh god, my father used to keep about 100 of the feathery little bastards in two large sheds in the garden. God I can still remember the smell of it 20 years later.
Every so often one would make a break for it when he had the cage door open and the fluttery shits would take ages to get caught and put back, that's if they didn't disappear out of the shed door that he had left open.
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u/OrganizationOk5418 4d ago
Everyone had a budgie when I was growing up, nearly always called Joey for some reason.
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u/kielu 4d ago
Elephants do the same: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/11/the-salt-mining-elephants-of-mount-elgon.html?m=1
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u/anonymoose_0427 2d ago
Fun fact not only is it the salt on your skin but it's a grooming thing. If parrots find their roommate or cagemate to be unclean they will groom themselves. That's all it is. They smelled the sweat, thought you to be unclean and wanted to clean you
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u/Mohican83 5d ago
Birds can see small bugs and mites and smell weird smells. Probabaly think its a big ass bug or something
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u/Steeljaw72 5d ago
Must have been hot outside. They wanted the salt form your sweat.