Flash Post 245!

Button, any guesses what these birds could be?

None, whatsoever. But my guess would be they are some species of parrot.

You’re absolutely right. These parrots living in mountainous areas of New Zealand are known as kea parrots and are renowned for their intelligence and mischievousness. They are nicknamed “Clowns of the mountains” because of their disarming ability to make others of their ilk drop whatever they are doing and start laughing, a trait that is a very human-like. This laughter of the keas are almost infectious.

Like the kookaburras?

Forget the laughing kookaburra– kea are the birds that really tickle each other’s funny bones. This makes it the first known non-mammal to show contagious emotion, joining the ranks of humans, rats and chimpanzees.

4 Comments

Poonam Mahapatra April 15, 2017 at 8:12 am

Nice picture but why so many posts on birds?? Please also write on dogs and cats…it;s getting boring! I would also like to read about different kinds of volcanoes

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- author April 17, 2017 at 11:23 am
  
  Poonam,
  
  Hi. Thank you for pointing this out to me because I felt that I was writing a lot more on dogs and cats and should be concentrating more on other living species like the birds and the bees.
  
  By the way, do you have some kind of special interest in volcanoes?
  
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Meher Dcosta April 15, 2017 at 8:14 am

I like to read about birds…they have the ability to fly which is what makes all of us envious of them. I wish I could fly…and more importantly, I wish I can make humans laugh too. We all need to laughter in our lives. What an amazing quality to possess.

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- author April 17, 2017 at 11:07 am
  
  Meher,
  
  But we also fly: In airplanes! I wonder if birds feel envious because we can talk, laugh, run, play, go for walks, discuss issues!
  
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