He does look like a little Archimedes. A silly question perhaps, I thought I read somewhere that one of the dangers in handling birds especially was the danger of their fear leading to a heart attack. Is this just an urbpan sorta legend?
Not that I'm going to be handling birds anytime soon. I'm much more of a birdwatching enthusiast and I luckily live near a pond in the US midwest so a nice variety comes by to visit.
Wild birds suffer a great deal of stress from handling. This individual is very sedate, in general, and has been in captivity for 10 years, so has been habituated to contact with humans.
I'm not sure about heart attacks (why not?, I suppose) but apparently bird rehabbers have to be very careful about the animals going into shock.
I've heard of several instances where a dolphin in captivity has a baby, and when the vets go in the tank to check the calf, it dies right when they go to touch it. I cannot imagine what the mother dolphin does at that point...an explosion of ten different emotions at once, probably.
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Not that I'm going to be handling birds anytime soon. I'm much more of a birdwatching enthusiast and I luckily live near a pond in the US midwest so a nice variety comes by to visit.
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I'm not sure about heart attacks (why not?, I suppose) but apparently bird rehabbers have to be very careful about the animals going into shock.
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