Archives for 2010

Animal Expert’s Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2010

  • *Bear Attack* Victim: 'I Could Hear My Bones Breaking'
  • July 29, 2010 – Bear attacks are unfortunately in the news more regularly as people continue to camp and bears habituate. Although this attack was allegedly not due to improper food storage, I would suspect habituation or some other trigger. An investigation and identifying the bear should reveal new facts.

Parrot Tricks (Video)

At one time people didn’t bother to train their parrots but fortunately today that has changed.

In fact, some of my pals who were parrot breeders anticipated the wave of interest and created unique products for these animals and one even opened a chain of specialty pet stores with specialty services for the care and training of parrots.

In the above video you can see a variety of behaviors a parrot can learn–it just takes patience, persistence and skill.

There are a number of resources available (click the link) if you want to train a parrot .