Sailorwolf

It's so sad. I've only ever watched it once, cause it made me sad. AV that one you posted is hilarious!!! I just watched it now

Oh jenene. You poor thing. Remember we are all here for you and we give you our biggest hugs.

Poor little girl, I hope those boys got a huge telling off. How horrible to be kept in a box! Question: if she could fly how did the boys get her back? or how did other people get her? Sorry I just like to know all the details

I'd never really thought of that before, I sorta thought I was the only one like that. Now I think about it I do think like that sometimes. It's kinda scary, but then you think, wow I'm this awesome (even if you did fluke it you still got to have something that got you there).

Well I got a call from the vet. She says he has been very quiet since being there. The parasites faecal egg float came back negative, so we have no parasites to worry about. They haven't been able to do bloods as he was a bit puffy, so she thought she would let him rest for a bit. Apparently his urine had glucose in it, although it is a little hard for any certainty to be taken from that as it could have leached in from the faeces. So when they are able to do bloods they will and depending on what they find I gave them the go ahead to do xrays. All tests (I can't remember what else they did) have come back negative so that is good, but then annoying as we don't have a definitive answer yet. So here's hoping it'll be a good result.

She's probably a darling, reallyThen if you do get her, at least she'll be out of the petshop finally poor girl.

No, I'll let you keep going then :budgiedance:

She is gorgeous. Take her harness off and she'd look like a wolf. Wolves are pretty

Sure thing Chryso. No she didn't say it was zoonotic, but I just did a quick google on it, I wasn't even sure whether it was bacteria or protozoa

Yes yes sounds awesome. You and Derek should collaborate on it. Us hens will sit here and offer suggestions *cluck* *cluck*

Get the big evil mean giant budgie hen up the back,The one that is part condor, the one who the only possible matching name would be something like Zeus-a or Mrs Serrated Battleaxe, who every time someone catches a glimpse of her eyes they turn to stone instantly, and then see if they can tame her.

Mmmmmmmm mudcaaaaake. *dribble* Wow it must be so exciting and fun getting everything organised

Well I took him in today and they are going to keep him over the weekend to monitor his water intake and output. He got a lovely big hospital cage all to himself (bigger than his homecage!!!) He is going to get some blood done and they are even going to test him for Chlamydia. The vet even picked up on things I didn't pick up on, like how he was favouring one leg - could be a kidney problem. But she asked if he ever had green urates and I remembered that he had, but then I didn't worry about it because his urates went white again. Apparently this is a sign of Chlamydia or liver problems. I don't know how easy it is to clear up Chlamydia, so I hope it's not that, because I don't want to get it. Or if it is that, I hope it clears up easily. She is also going to do a faecal float to see if they have any parasites, so that will be interesting. The other two, Izzy and Bacardi, enjoyed the trip to the vet and back immensely, they just sang the whole way and sang along to David Bowie in the waiting room. It was very cute.

They don't have a different name Anyway I must be going to bed, it is freezing here.

eeek not good

Neanderthals are classed as the same species as us. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis Genus species subspecies We are: Homo sapiens sapiens The dolphin bit was a joke, dolphins don't tend to earn livings "Kill" is a colloquial term, I will replace it with "destroy" MB, unfortunately that is the case here. I was sad, because I really wanted a pet kakariki, and you are only allowed them if you keep them outside in an aviary in a natural situation.

okay. Yeah they are probably less likely to make as many babies in the wild. Hard times and all

Ooh. I won't dare read it now, I don't think I could. I'm on a bit of a low after the exam hype and it sounds very sad.

Oh wow AV what a horrendous day. Good on you for standing up for that poor lady. You need to get some chocolate, a snuggly blanket and a cuppa and curl up in front of the telly. What happened to the red bird??? I'm sorry I'm a bit confused. But do tell us about your little lost bird when you feel like it.

Huggles and hot chocolate for you. Wishing you the best.

Problem is pet breeders, they aren't always that good at breeding and DOC (Department of Conservation) can't rely on pet bred birds as they could be... not as good. They have captive breeding programs, but wildlife and conservation departments like to do a lot of genetic checks to make sure everything is good with their couples. I mean, the effect a pet one would have on a large population is minimal, but on a small population it could be horrendous. Tee hee me and Chryso posted at the same time, hence repetitive like answer

Haha Poopd!!!! Awesome. Actually They have faeces, urates and urine. Faeces is the brown or black part. Urates is the white solid stuff and urine is the liquid around it. It is usually not much because they are so good at conserving it. But Arks makes it look like he's spilled all his water on the ground.

Hello and welcome to the forum I'd love to see a picture of Spike

Just because they are less able to survive doesn't mean they can't or won't, (that's why you have bad genes in the first place). Pet budgies are more inbred than wildbudgies. It would not be good for the wild population to get these bad mutations which may be carried in the pet budgie. Hence the reason why we cannot release our pet kakarikis. We chose who to breed them too, thus if any bad genes show up, we have caused them to do so through inbreeding and thus weaken the wild state. I understand now, that there are huge numbers of budgies left in Australia, I was under the impression there wasn't. But this still applies to other species especially the kakariki. I did not say that. I was using mules as an example, because they are a very well known hybrid. I personally have never heard that female ligers and tigons are fertile, but I have never done any research in that area. I haven't heard of any 2nd generation ligers and tigons. But the thing is that the definition of a species is a population of animals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. It is the general thought that species cannot interbreed because they have different chromosome numbers, (there is some evidence against this though). There is also no evidence against it either. If humans lived alongside Neanderthals then it is most likely that interbreeding did occur. DNA is a very fragile molecule, it breaks down very easily, thus I would be surprised if they have any reliable DNA from over 25000 years ago. Remember chimpanzees share 98.5% of our DNA. So 1.5% makes us different from them. Neanderthals are even closer than that, so the gap would be even smaller. And one must also remember that in 25000 years our DNA would have changed significantly too. So Neanderthal DNA would be more different to our DNA today than it would have been 25000 years ago. So if humans were to interbreed with a Neanderthal their offspring would have a genetical difference to humans of half the gap between its parents. If the gap was this small it would be very difficult to tell what was human and what was not, especially when our species varies so greatly already. Perhaps if they survived they would now be considered a different species. Fossil evidence is sketchy for all animals. Fossilisation is a rare process. Think of how many different species there are which could have all been different versions of the same species, a youngster for example or even a different sex. I use the eclectus parrot here as an example. The only evidence you have is bones, dust and the occasional preserved skin or print. One has to remember that we are the only species in our genus, even our family. We would have had other very similar species and subspecies, that budded off of our phylogenetic tree, but never made it to current day, or were never fossilised. It is quite likely interbreeding happened there. Scientists can't do everything. As a vet student I am learning that there is a lot out there that we don't yet know or are waiting for technology to develop significantly to test and allow us to discover things. For instance we still can't effectively kill viruses. That doesn't mean much , not to men fighting and killing for territory and raping and pillaging. This didn't stop the Romans (and we all know how frisky they were back then!) and it doesn't stop the people that love their pets or animals just a little too much either. The interbreeding process didn't necessarily have to be loving for it to be successful. Behaviours and communication also didn't stop the galah and cockateil from producing a baby (it's on a post here somewhere) Who's to say neanderthals were dumb they may have been smarter than us (a lot of people wouldn't and don't like this idea, for some reason humans always have to be the best???? Too bad, dolphins are way smarter than us lol, they know not to even bother with work and stress, just play your whole life), but it is the theory that we killed them all, we may have had equal intelligence but we would have been more dangerous or ferocious than them. Apparently Neanderthals were very peaceful. Aaagh! I better get off this topic, I keep coming back with more to say. As you can tell, I am very interested in this subject

They can have up to 16 babies. My friend's rat had 16 babies. So if you get 8, don't stop looking