There is a parrot that attacks full grown sheep and eats them alive!

Odd but true.

Video here

I knew it! Parrots!

They’re all in it. Squawking? Ha! They’re conspiring!

They’ll pick your tent to pieces too while you’re out hiking - potentially dangerous if bad weather rolls in. And I’ve heard of them picking apart the rubber gaskets that holds in car windshields. I’m sure it’s fun driving home after that.

I’ve seen the signs in carparks, warning tourists.

Also while capable of shredding rubber and plastics on cars. They just love removing the rubber window seals, and if the window sans seals falls out, they’ll trash the inside very efficiently.

With God as my witness I thought sheep could fly.

Kea are really smart, too - capable of reasoning out a multistep process to get food, and using available items to help. Possibly the smartest birds, although some of the tool making/using corvids could hold that crown.

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Don’t get me started on the ones that keep trying to burn the house down. Hell, I never knew that after a bird threw a few seeds under a stove burner it could go up so fast.

Why doesn’t the sheep just roll over?

We’ve got Kea here in the Franklin Park Zoo, and I wrote sa thread about their weird behavior a couple of years ago. But I had no idea how weird they could be outside the cage.

The trouble is, sheep are very dim.

There’s a reason I keep my parrots locked in a cage when I’m not able to directly supervise them.

People are sometimes surprised at what we use to lock those little birds in - problem is, they’re smart and nature saw fit to equip them with a built in wire clipper and opposable digits.

Mine aren’t keas, but they can be quite destructive when they get into things.

Ah, the kea. Ran across it while picking a word for a game of fictionary. Nobody believed that that yes, the dictionary really did define it as (more or less) “A New Zealand parrot that eats the kidney fat of sheep.”

Since then it’s been a go-to word for fictionary games.

As soon as I read the title of the OP, I knew it had to be New Zealand.

Being bitten by a kea isn’t fun. The worst I’ve had is a nip on the shoe-covered toe, but that was enough to get an idea of how nasty it could be.

“Rawk, he knows too much! Rawk!”

To be fair, it could also be Australia.

I still don’t understand why Apple created its own version that disassembles furniture.

Yes.

It’s called the “iKea”.

I’ve heard of keas before, but… eeep! Whose sheep was that, and why were they sitting there taping it?

For God’s sake, if you have pet birds at home, don’t let them see you reading this thr

Why is a doper called carnivorousplant concerned about a carnivorous bird? :wink:

Competition, plus a fear of blowing cover. The jungle must continue to appear harmless. Time to step up the Disney propaganda.