:: slaps Smeghead with wet trout ::
So, Sunspace, thule, come on over for dinner, we’re having long pig.
Except the Kea is not native to Australia.
Thanks for the invite CP, but my metabolish reacts badly to chianti.
On the Big Island cockatoos, particularly the white sulphur crested, either as individuals of in flocks of hundreds, can be just as destructive as keas, but not being protected and having some natural predators, they don’t have the chutzpah.
How about fava beans and RC cola?
So sorry, I …um, just converted to vegetarianism. Yeah, that’s it. Vegetarianism. Also, I’m a long way from you, several thousand kilometres, and, um, I’m away on work, and, um, ifanythinghappenstomemycrazywhackogunowningfriendswillcomelookingforme[sub]ihope[/sub]
dammit.
Well I was sort of hoping your metabolism reacted badly to RC Cola.
Is this like that Mentos and Diet Coke thing?
I can’t find a cite, but the kea hunters used to use a specially designed weapon known as a kea gun.
Apparently it resembled a sawn off shotgun.
Widely used until the NZ authorities realized that it made a wonderful concealed robbery device and was then banned.
IIRC the kea is now protected.
They’ve got a taste for blood! Run for the hills!
They live in the hills, genius.:rolleyes::smack:
AAAH!! Run away from the hills! If you see hills, run the other way!
I encountered a kea in New Zealand. I’d parked up to take some photos near Milford Sound, and when I turned back to my rental car, there was a bloody huge green parrot perched on the wing mirror trying to eat the rubber seal around the passenger-side window.
I knew enough about them to recognise what it was, but at the time I wasn’t familiar with their reputation. If I had been, I’d have been less concerned about taking loads of parrot photos and more worried that it was about to carry my car off into the mountains and eat it.
Here’s a bunch of them eating a car.
Broomstick is right about all parrots being like this to some extent. When I first got him, my little conure chewed all the rubbery buttons off a remote control before I figured out what he was up to.
“Paulie wants ta killya!”
One of the amazing things is how methodical parrots can be when intent on dismantling something. I give mine stuff like old boxes just to watch them go at it. And to distract them from more valuable items.
Absolutely! Mine once ate the sides of his Happy Hut bit by bit. He did the front side last, so I didn’t notice it until then.
Do you give yours toilet paper tubes, or bottles and cans? Mine is convinced that he has to save the world from those things.
Sweet Jumping Jebus, did you see the 3 towards the end of the video coming over and chewing on the guys BOOTS :eek:
I take it the insurance comapanies over there are not disturbed by claims … A flock of birds ate my car …?!
And I take it you dont take a nap with a kea in the room … they would nosh on your body :eek: and god help you if you died, there wouldn’t be a body left for CSI …
I believe the kea is also called the “mutton bird”. There was an NZ band named The Mutton Birds that a lady whom I dated from that country liked listening to, and she explained in gory detail what a mutton bird was and did.
I just want to know how the keas figured out that sheep kidney fat was tasty.