Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/18/parrot-wants-to-touch-cat.html
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Maybe he thought it was dead?
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… except that’s a cockatoo, not parrot
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Very cute but incredibly dangerous for the bird.
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The pedant in me wanted to say that too, but then I learned that cockatoos are a type of parrot.
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Cat: Too groggy to murder bird.
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Fair enough, I learned that myself just now. So thanks! 
Still tho … it’s a cockatoo 
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Cockatoo do snoot boop oops!
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I have a clip of this from an original The Onion when they were still just in Madison for the most part. I love pulling it out to show people sometimes.
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This is what First Contact will look like.
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Maybe. But it isn’t exactly defenseless. Birds like this bring to mind how birds are cladistically dinosaurs.
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also previously:
bird cat box.m4v (3.8 MB)
When the beak opened, I was afraid for the cat. I’ve seen scars caused by parrots who have bitten people. They are deep, and take a long time to fade.
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Cockatoos are dicks.
“Wanna tease cat… no, shouldn’t tease cat, always ends badly… WANNA TEASE CAT”
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He did see a puddy-tat.
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correction – wants to taste cat
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Cockatoos have a very powerful beak, as do most parrots (they chew nest holes out of tree trunks and crack hardshelled nuts for their food), and not only is their beak design v damaging on soft tissue, but their bite force is fairly powerful for something that only weighs a few pounds:
Looks here like kitty is trying to get along, but the bird is being trouble… 
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LOOK AT THOSE FEET
both kitty and birdie are like, i would to pet you but my parts are all pointy
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