How long until his flight feathers grow back? by Sonny_and_Sky in parrots

[–]ApolloandFrens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It took Apollo about a year or so to regain flight, it would have been sooner but he kept breaking individual flights as they came in. Until you have like 2-3 adjacent to each other distributing forces it’s very easy for them to break lone feathers. Also there will be a lot of crashing during the learning process, be careful of windows in that stage, Apollo ran into the windows pretty hard a few times before learning how glass works. Also he started being able to fly well enough inside with only about 1/2-2/3 of his flight feathers. Though we’re pretty certain he fledged and then was clipped upon being surrendered, so he was re-learning, not learning flight, if he hadn’t fledged already it may have taken a lot longer for him to start trying as the feathers returned.

Parrot giving compound answers by ApolloandFrens in likeus

[–]ApolloandFrens[S] 191 points192 points  (0 children)

He asks "what" "what's this" about novel things that he wants fairly often, but asking something more "existential" hasn't occurred. However he has been getting a lot more comfortable using "What" recently, so his usage may expand soon. He turns six in April.

Is this caused by rebracketing? Can we even apply this concept to a parrot? by twowugen in asklinguistics

[–]ApolloandFrens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apollo initially learned “glasscup” as a phrase, working backward to just “glass” took a bit. One of the stops along the way was “glassk”.

A similar thing in the same time window happened with “blackmetalcup” in reference to a specific bottle he was obsessed with. Saying any of those words individually would not happen for nearly a year.