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Sept 5, 2019 11:54:44 GMT -7
Post by Jane on Sept 5, 2019 11:54:44 GMT -7
Mitzi has crazes for particular nuts and she will refuse to eat other nuts, even if they were nuts she had a previous craze on. She has had crazes on almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecan nuts and cashew nuts.
Tonight I gave her a hazelnut (a previous craze) and although she took it in her beak she then froze. She completely froze and I couldn't get any reaction from her. It was as if she had seen a ghost. After a while she just dropped the hazelnut. I then gave her a cashew nut (her current craze) and she took it, ate it and returned to normal.
Jane
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Sept 5, 2019 12:55:23 GMT -7
Post by Haz on Sept 5, 2019 12:55:23 GMT -7
Chy has almonds as part of her regular diet so she doesn't consider them to be treats. It has to be cashews or pistachios for it to be a treat now.
Haz
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Sept 6, 2019 6:36:52 GMT -7
Post by chris on Sept 6, 2019 6:36:52 GMT -7
The behaviors of these birds, especially given their proven high level of intelligence, is really a puzzle sometimes. Why would she just freeze up like this? I've seen Ruby freeze before but usually it's when she hears a strange or unexpected noise and you could equate it with a prey-predator response.
Always a mystery with these guys (which makes it fun) but for this one I couldn't even make a guess!
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Sept 6, 2019 19:58:50 GMT -7
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Post by Adele on Sept 6, 2019 19:58:50 GMT -7
I wonder if it was the hazelnut, or something potentially unrelated? Like she all of a sudden noticed an item out of place? It would be fantastic if we could read the minds of our little ones!!
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Sept 6, 2019 20:01:24 GMT -7
Post by beakertrout on Sept 6, 2019 20:01:24 GMT -7
Their tongue is very sensitive so it might have been the "taste" that un-nerved her.
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Sept 7, 2019 1:02:10 GMT -7
Post by Jane on Sept 7, 2019 1:02:10 GMT -7
From the look on her face it was either because she had seen something that spooked her (I don't know what because there was nothing going on) or the fact that she had been given a hazelnut when she was expecting a cashew!
Sometimes if I give her something she doesn't want she won't take it and instead she makes a movement with her beak as if she is tasting something. This is her message to me that she wants something else, not the item I am offering her.
Jane
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Sept 7, 2019 10:34:47 GMT -7
Post by chris on Sept 7, 2019 10:34:47 GMT -7
You guys are great detectives. It does start to make a bit of sense when you combine their famous hatred of any changes with the arrival of a food that was unexpected!
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