Tässä pari kommenttai ao. lehdestä:
Blanchard, S. "Games Parrots Play." Bird Talk, marraskuu 1991, nro 11.
"There is a lot of outdated and incorrect advice being given about biting parrots. People are often told to grab the bird's beak and shake it and yell NO!! This doesn't work because ornithologists have now realized that grabbing a parrot's beak (what experts call "Beak Wrestling"), is considered to be play behavior between parrots. So once again, in the human effort to give negative feed-back to parrots, they have only succeeded in rewarding them. "
Eli ei olisi hyvästä tuo nokan hiplailu. Joka tapauksessa tuo Timon kertoma keino on käytetyin tähän ongelmaan.
Toinen kommentti samalta henkilöltä liittyen häkkiin laittamiseen:
"It also doesn't usually work to punish by putting a parrot in its cage. By the time the door is closed, it has probably completely forgotten the connection between biting someone and being locked up. Obviously, the bird can't bite anyone again because it has been removed from human proximity, but it hasn't learned anything about not biting. In addition, since parrots often spend prolonged periods in their cages while caretakers work, it is not logical to use the cage as punishment. "
Tämmöstä maailmalta..
Nalo
