[SunkenCiv]

• A foul-mouthed parrot uses Amazon's Alexa to order things when his owner is away
• Fossil hunters reveal Squawkzilla, the three-foot tall cannibal parrot [tr]
• The True Story Of Andrew Jackson's Swearing Parrot

[martin_fierro]

Young Master Dockrill is appalled that the same people who practiced human sacrifice weren’t nice to parrots.

[Starstruck]

I thought this was about wind turbines and solar fields.

[RC one]

Any society that normalizes cruelty to animals is capable of normalizing cruelty to humans. History may have been dark but there’s no guarantee that the future is much brighter.

[Leaning Right]

Woke history teaches us that the native peoples were all good, and the European colonists were all bad.

So here’s my question: Which Europeans taught the natives to abuse those birds? I’ll bet it had something to do with the Grand Duchy of Fenwick. Those guys loved their feathers.

[Varda]

I wonder if they have any real evidence of abuse other than the injuries. It seems somewhat flimsy to base that conclusion.

[DannyTN]

I bet those birds said to themselves, “I am so plucked”.

[boycott]

I guess feathers were sort of like name brand clothing now.

[bgill]

Uh huh. So, why didn’t anyone pluck the feathers off the dead birds?

[Flag_This]

If you think the birds had it tough...

[blam]

[Ge0ffrey]

The noble savages did that? Say it ain’t so!

[ealgeone]

you mean so called indigenous people did something bad?????

[OneVike]

Yet I thought native Indians cared about wildlife. You mean they were cruel to exotic birds???

[doorgunner69]

Hawaiians did the same thing and killed off several bird species for the feathers.

[Honest Nigerian]

History is just one continuous dark period. Or numerous consecutive dark periods following one upon the prior.

[Rebelbase]

Going back hundreds of years to find injustice done to birds? They could have looked to the USA in the late 1890s and early 1900s to see entire bird species almost wiped out by plumage hunters on Southern Atlantic coast and Florida.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

There is a place in St. Pete that has a gazillion Peacocks.

The birds were bred to produce feathers for pigment in paint. Now they screech and howl, especially while mating.

Most annoying. What’s worst the city won’t open a season on the birds.

There’s a lot of peacocks in this area, but check out Jungle Prada.

I wish we could eat them...along with the chickens roaming around in Ybor city.

5.56mm

[ElkGroveDan]

They were kept to produce feathers and their feathers were plucked out as soon as they grew in."

What? This has to be a mistake. Everyone knows that "indigenous peoples" were at one with nature and prior to the arrival of Europeans there was no suffering and the environments was pristine and untouched. I know this because I read National Geographic.