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efforts to intervene, which range from removing perches to hormone treatment and surgery
wtf :(
Who would punish them? 😭
Bird Jesus looks down on them all.
BirDSM
I dont care if it’s natural. im not removing the “no masturbating” sign from our bird feeder.
I agree. Gotta keep the “bird seed” out of the bird seed.
My masturbation ain’t natural and mommy should punish me for it
Birdkeepers punish birds? That’s a new thought lol
Who the fuck is researching this and what is the process of their information gathering?
Just a bunch of scientists sitting around watching birds goon all day going “ya, this seems perfectly natural!”
More importantly, why should I give a shit about the findings and opinions of some seriously disturbed perverts?!?
Funny how they picked the most pervert-looking bird for the article photo.
What do you mean? That bird looks just like the President.
Then why do I keep getting punished every time I masturbate among birds?
Just wait until the GOP (grand old parrots) learn about this.
I’ll see myself out.
I’m sorry people are out trying to punish birds?
Apparently birdkeepers are, yeah.
A seagull stole my chip. Are you suggesting I just Let That Go?
Look, man, I wasn’t punishing them I just didn’t have anything to feed them but cornflakes. I am not John Kellogg; I didn’t think that shit actually would stop anyone masturbating. 🤷♂️
Some of them insist upon it, even if you’ve never SEEN a fucking flog, much less wielded one against a partner.
Til that people are punishing birds for masturbating
My mind blown
American Christianity punishes all ideas of enjoying sex, even among animals.
But not between priests and altar boys, it seems
To be fair that’s just Catholicism and not American Christianity ™®©.
Don’t get me wrong, American Christianity ™®© has its share of pedophiles, possibly even more than catholicism, however it’s usually straight because they just believe younger girls are more fertile.
humans never cease to amaze don’t they
Who was punishing birds for masturbating in the first place? Why!?
Researchers historically tended to assume birds either did not masturbate or did so only under the stress of captivity … Accounts from hobbyists revealed that some owners had sought veterinary help when they caught their birds masturbating, fearing the animals might hurt themselves.
I would have just assumed they were preening…
Tomato, tomato.
This explains all the bird watchers.
People are HORRIBLE with birds. Even the ones that pretend to love them treat them like trash.
And then there’s the fuckers that think that their views of the world matters more than anything else, and will punish masturbation because animals don’t feel pleasure so it shouldn’t be allowed, will punish them for having gay couples because gay shouldn’t exist and especially not in animals (else how can you say your main homophobic argument of “gay is unnatural, only degenerate humans do it”), will starve them for “training” purposes, and don’t get me started on the diets, environment safety and cage sizes.
There’s a reason why the life expectancy of birds doesn’t increase in captivity. People are really, really horrible with birds, and the more I read about people who “care” about birds the worse I feel for their birds.
Being gay is unnatural, that’s why you never saw a gay goat!
Actually, goats are unnatural. But you never saw a gay frog!
Actually, that’s Big Pharma making the frogs gay. But you never saw a gay bird!
Gay isn’t something one can see.
I respectfully disagree. I do have this thing installed called “Gaydar”™️ though. Sometimes gets mixed signals if there’s a gay weather balloon near by.
My browsing history disagrees.
“folk husbandry often advises bird keepers to discourage or punish this behaviour, sometimes even resorting to surgery and hormonal interventions,”
TIL there’s a cottage industry of preventing bird mastrubation
I believe the politically correct term is “Women”. They tend to bitch a lot when you call them “birds”.
No wonder that’s a more common behavior in wild birds.
I still do it the old-fashioned way and call them “chicks”.
Oh dude broads hate it when you call 'em chicks
“Dude broads”
i don’t ask where you go after 5 pm. i expect the same respect.
What a bunch of cucks.
A bird wrote this
PS: Article delivers
An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax
Typically, males would be “rubbing quite vigorously” on their perch, a toy or a twig, or on their owner’s hand, foot or shoulder
Freaky ass birds.
Hold up. If a bird is bonded to you, and it does it, does it even count as baitin’? Sounds more like it’s trying to mate with its mate. Or is bird-jacking fundamentally different? Bird experts… pitch in.
Hold up. If a bird is bonded to you, and it does it, does it even count as baitin’? Sounds more like it’s trying to mate with its mate.
This is actually one part of why fully hand-rearing baby parrots should not be done. When they don’t perceive themselves as birds and will only bond to humans, they can get extremely frustrated since humans can’t properly answer to their instinctual needs like mating behavior. This then easily leads to plenty of behavioral issues like excessive screaming and aggression towards even the human they’re bonded with. Never seek to become a birds mate, just be friends with them
Can you explain why a bird bonded to you from early childhood would also be sexually attracted to you? To humans in general I could understand but why to you, the “parent”? Are birds less opposed to incest?
I don’t actually know do birds have higher tendency to inbreeding in nature. I know in captivity especially the smaller, more aviary setting kept birds might breed with their siblings and parents if there’s not enough unrelated mates.
And with hand-fed bigger parrots getting bonded to humans in general is like grooming, very simplified. Growing up without proper birding tends to cause all sorts of mental problems already, and they might not have any other person or parrot to seek company from, and at worst people do stuff like stroke their backs which is a sexual signal. So what’s a hormonal teenager gonna do when the strong instinct of gotta find a mate kicks in?
Edit// forgot words
There’s a difference between incest and inbreeding. Opposition to incest, that is sex for pleasure among family members, is a moral position, and apparently unique to humans.
Inbreeding, sex for reproduction, is blocked on a biological level more strongly in some species than others, but it still happens, of course.
In humans, and perhaps other species, there is sometimes sexual disinterest in closely related family members, but this is not “opposition to incest”, and certainly is not universal.
Not an expert, but I’ve witnessed something like this. Step mom turned into a strange bird person for her midlife crisis, got an African grey that absolutely hates all females including her, but loves all dude. It dude puff up and squat on your shoulder, but it wouldn’t rub anything. Maybe it’s different for male birds.
An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax, with the results providing welcome relief for vets and researchers, not to mention the birds themselves.
Asked if they showed any signs of self-loathing or Catholic guilt, Heys thought not. “I don’t want to say satisfied, but they do look different after they finish. It’s obviously doing something for them.”
Someone was having a little too much fun with this article.
Orgasms feel good, more news at 11.
Sounds like the birds were still having more fun
