To: doc30
As a parrot owner, this was interesting reading. I have read that parrots accept or reject food based on some UV coloring. It explains why they are such messy eaters because they will eat, say, only the freshest parts of a fruit and discard the rest of it. We humans look at that and see messiness and wastefulness. The bird, however, sees it like we would if we were trimming fat off a steak. mmmm...steak....
98 posted on
07/03/2006 1:19:40 PM PDT by
Tall_Texan
(I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
To: Tall_Texan
I find birds fascinating, especially the more intelligent species like parrots and crows. They are so like us yet so different-- intelligent, visually and verbally oriented creatures like ourselves, but in every other way they're different.
143 posted on
07/03/2006 3:10:49 PM PDT by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: Tall_Texan
I'm a parrot owner, too, and was wondering about theri vision. Do you suppose it would be possible to train a bird to distinguish betwwen UV colored and non-UV colored objects? They could be UV-seeing guide birds for us UV blind humans!
155 posted on
07/03/2006 3:24:31 PM PDT by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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