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| Are your lovebird(s) stereotypic? |
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| No, my lovebirds are sweet and docile. |
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| I don't know, I've never handled my lovebirds. |
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| They are nippy on occasion, but for the most part they are not aggressive. |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 7401
Location: Canada, Toronto |
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Lovebirds are stereotyped as being nippy, bullying, fearless, aggressive, and sometimes down right vicious. Even long time mates have been known to kill eachother, after having shared a cage peacefully for many years. My vet always says that he's convinced that when a lovebird looks in the mirror he sees a macaw staring back.
My lovebirds fit this stereotype exactly, they are big bullies and have caused numerous injuries to my other birds, and have been injured themseleves by challenging my African Grey.
Do your lovebirds defy this stereotype? Are they always sweet and cuddly and never bite? Are they friendly towards other birds and other humans? |
Wednesday May 30, 2007 6:21 pm |
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jletaz
Experienced flier
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
Posts: 1282
Location: CA, USA |
I've never had Lovebirds, but I hear the stereotype of them being nippy, aggressive, highly territorial little monsters  I have also heard people say that males are less prone to being that way?
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Friday June 1, 2007 1:59 am |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 7401
Location: Canada, Toronto |
I don't know if that is true about males and females. My lovebird Hazelnut has been DNA sexed, and he's a confirmed male, and he is very sweet with me and doesn't bite me, and is cuddly as well. Pistachio however hasn't been sexed, and I call her a she, but I suspect that she's also a male, because she's never laid any eggs. But anyway, she is extremely nippy and can't be cuddled. They are both aggressive towards the other birds to the same extent though  |
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Friday June 1, 2007 2:05 am |
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Fluffy Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Well, I have a lovebird that stays here at this moment and he's far from that! Even when he used to be flighted.. He's nothing like you've described hahaha! (He's a hero with socks hehehe)
I don't know what Flit would have been like now, but he was such a great birdy. He wasn't biting, a bully but he was fearless! He even jumped on a macaw's tail to be swung around. He loved to make friends with other birds. The only time he was downright mean was with a budgie..  He didn't want that budgie to be near him.
Flit and my sister's lovebird that stays here now, was and is an angel with humans. Stepping up nicely, without biting. Flit was male, Sammie is 99 percent sure male. |
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