[oldasrocks]

I bird sitted for a friend on summer. Spent hrs teaching it to say. Make love to Lucy. One week after returning the bird she let it out the back door to never be seen again.

[rlmorel]

At a wedding I went to, I sat next to Irene Pepperberg who wrote the book Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process and it was a fascinating discussion!

I was very curious, and asked her what it was like to live in the same household that long (around 30 years) with a parrot that I think began to view her as its mate, and she said it was like living with "a willful adolescent"!!! (She said the bird was very jealous of men who visited her house, and would attack them!)

Sitting on the other side of me was an MIT astrophysicist, and that was also very interesting from a discussion point of view!