Re: Rooks cooperate to get treats

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

So do budgies.   I just now watched one hop to another perch instead of 
flying, having spent a full minute calculating the hop.    Now, he could 
have flown alot faster.   Grin!    Of course, having observed that they like 
to do that, I've got perches arranged at suitable intervals along most of 
the height of their flight cage at both ends.   They've got ladders to 
climb, though they also like to climb the vertical bars on their cage. 
They can even transfer between swings by swinging like a monkey.    Not to 
mention climbing across the top upside down, and hovering vampire-style over 
the bird whose swing they want.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hope, Sylvia" <shope@calacademy.org>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: Rooks cooperate to get treats


> Tree creepers. Steller's Jays. The jays climb trees close to the trunk by
> hopping - Name anything some other animal can do and there is probably a 
> bird
> that does it.
>
> - Sylvia Hope
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
> evelyn sobielski
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:23 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: Rooks cooperate to get treats
>
>
> --- don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com> schrieb:
>
> > Personal observation (in N Florida, mid-December):
> > two
> > owls in  dimmest pre-dawn light, working their way
> > up
> > a gum tree in a swamp, leaping from
> > branch-to-branch.



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