Does a pigeon eating chicken count as cannibalism?

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Originally posted by neon_duke
"Many people pooh-pooh Australian table wines. Pehaps they should try the Chateau de Wagga Wagga, which believe me has a kick on it like a mule. This is not a wine for sipping, it's a wine for lying down and avoiding." [/B]
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Wagga-Wagga is our "sister city". And we also have a winery. Still am quite leery of wines made in Kansas.
Being from Cali, I thought all good wine came from the Napa Valley. Imagine my suprise when I found the best wines came from across the "pond".
As for the cannibalism question: eeewww. :eek:
 
Pigeons are nature's revenge upon city dwellers. Put in all that concrete, get winged rats.

Also, I don't know about the fast food over there, but I doubt chicken patties here have much chicken in them.
 
Originally posted by Sertsa
Pigeons are nature's revenge upon city dwellers. Put in all that concrete, get winged rats.

Also, I don't know about the fast food over there, but I doubt chicken patties here have much chicken in them.
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I know what you mean - but this particular (Australian) fast food outlet put actual chicken fillets in their burgers - shocking, I know.
 
Originally posted by vat_man



I know what you mean - but this particular (Australian) fast food outlet put actual chicken fillets in their burgers - shocking, I know.
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No! I don't believe you!
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Ok...

Pigeon = Ghetto Chicken

I have a Cockatoo that eats everything. I've fed him porkchops, steak (w/ A1 sauce), Chicken wings (prefers mild), Kraft "Mac and cheese". I've seen him eat spiders, and other small insects. His favorite by far is Grubs/mealworms. Like a kid with an ice cream cone. Very sickening to watch. We believe that he was a wild caught parrot, and smuggled into the US in the late 80's
AO
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Does a parrots normal diet consist of that?
When I had a hampster they told me to only feed it vegetables I did for a while then I started feeding it scraps of meat. One day my cousin took her hampster around to my house and put it into my cage. While we were at dinner everyone heard this squeaking noise and when I went to take a look My hampster had killed my cousins hampster. Lets just say my cousin didnt talk to me for a long while and I never saw my hampster in the same light although it died 2 months after that.

Moral of the story: Never feed hampsters meat or they become killer hampsters (or maybe he was a mentalist hampster i just dont know?)
 
Y2: Is this where "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie" came from?

THey get very little meat. We tend to feed our parrots rice, pasta, lots of veggies, Parrot Pellets, baby food, and as an occasional treat, cheese. I've seen our big Cockatoo take a chicken bone, break it open, and eat the marrow. A yummy treat for him.

The pigeon comes back to the carrion statement.

Pets will always surprise you. Our macaw took his door lock apart. no key, just managed to work all the screws out, and then pop the core out. He dropped everything into the cage tray.

AO


To tell the truth, they'll eat just about anything.
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
I've seen our big Cockatoo take a chicken bone, break it open, and eat the marrow. A yummy treat for him.
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Parrots are actually seed eaters - hence the beaks, whick break open the seed so the bird can eat what's inside - much in the fashion you describe above.

Wild Cockatoos can be very destructive here - because their beaks are so hard, they've been known to destroy weatherboard houses, powerlines and the like.

I see one quite regularly on the drive home that is ENORMOUS. Its big trick seems to be waiting for cars to approach it, fly off, and then crap on the cars as they pass below.
 
Originally posted by 1mic

so when a human is cooked and another human eats him/her its not cannibalism?
:rolleyes:
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Err...you didn't say anything about humans originally (rather, pigs). But it's not like humans cook other humans then eat them anyway...
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Y2: Is this where "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie" came from?
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wtf??
Is that some american joke??
Remember im English (either caffineated or alchohol drenched)
 
Man...I'm slipping up left and right today...

Hamster Huey is a reference to The "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip done by Bill Watterson.

"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie" was a bedtime story that Calvin always requested his dad read at lights out.

Sorry,
AO
 
Ahhhhh I wondered why that sounded familiar to me, I have a few of those calvin and hobbes comics (or books Im not sure how youd classify them) I havent read them in years.

My opinion is animals are animals they have a different mind set to humans meaning that they dont think about what they eat. I would say "Mmmmmm steak" also a dog would say "Mmmmmm steak" (or the dog eqivilant) but the dog doesnt think differently for eating say a dead rat. I would go "WTF are you sick or something trying to make me eat a dead rat you crazy mentalist guy you" the dog would say "MMmmmmmmm dead rat" although I suppose its slightly different for domesticated animals, maybe they pick up human traits?

:odd:
 

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