Re: Parrot worked to death?

Peter Hucker wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:04:09 +0100, <jfma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:02:29 GMT, "M.J." <M.J.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "max" <betatron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:13emjp35cthgdc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> In article <zDHGi.26846$eY.6692@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> "M.J." <M.J.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll repeat once more!
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this what you did to the poor creature, Ms Irene Pepperberg?
>>>>>
>>>>> Have him worked to death by your research?
>>>>> 8-12 hours a day, every day, of gruelling mental exercise, just to
>>>>> find out where the limits of avian intelligence exist!  No wonder
>>>>> Alex died so young.
>>>>
>>>> What you are describing is a death due to prolonged mental stress.
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>> Typically, when an animal, human or otherwise, is under chronic
>>>> mental stress,
>>>
>>>
>>> No, it is not fine, as the type of stress Alex was subjected to
>>> is not comparable to anything else that an animal may encounter
>>> in nature.
>>>
>>     Neither is talking in human language.
>
> They do this of their own accord.
>
>>> Usually stress means fear, hunger, uncertainty, noise, many other
>>> environmental factors.  A 30 year rigorous regiment of learning
>>> to think abstractly, admionistered from the earliest age, is a
>>> stress factor different than anything a parrot can encounter and
>>> there is no way to judge how the creature will react to it (that is
>>> long term effect).
>>>
>>     Really?  Problem solving is something parrots don't encounter
>> every day?
>
> Not 100 times a day.

Correct. They solve exactly 317.25 problems each day. Except on weekends
and
when they go on vacation

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Dave
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