Re: [Freeflight] Re: Handfeeding my unweaned Baby CAG.

[Nate Waddoups <thoughts@n...>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, conure6 wrote:

> I know that in studies done with monkeys, babies raised in isolation
> from other monkeys showed many strange behavior problems in social
> situations, while those raised around other young monkeys were almost
> normal compared to parent-raised monkeys. It seems that the same
> might be true for parrots, since they share many behavioral
> similarities.

Were the babies "raised in isolation from other monkeys" raised in
isolation from ALL forms of companionship? I mean, for that sort of study
to be relevant they'd have to raise the monkey babies with lots of human
companionship (as I assume will be the case for Boman's bird) to make up
for the missing companionship from members of its own kind.

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Nate Waddoups
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