When presented with a new or unfamiliar object, some parrots may experience panic and anxiety and attempt to avoid it or retreat. This is known as “neophobia” or the fear of new things. 🦜📚😱
Alex the Parrot recently flipped the fuck out when someone tossed a tree branch with a plushie of some kind attached to it into his backyard. His owner had to throw it into a fire to get Alex to calm down.
Alex the Parrot recently flipped the fuck out when someone tossed a tree branch with a plushie of some kind attached to it into his backyard. His owner had to throw it into a fire to get Alex to calm down.
Something exactly the same happened to Apollo the African Gray.
Derp I got my parrots mixed up. You’re right it was Apollo, not Alex lol
Lol I thought it was such a huge coincidence, but I didn’t know about the plushie detail, so I didn’t think much of it.