natives animals as pets? - What would you have? What would you never have? Why? (Mar/15/2009 )
I would like a Panda in my house if I get a fund and care-taker to keep one.
Telomerase on Mar 17 2009, 01:51 PM said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisent.jpg
This one's a HUUUGE WILD COW. If you ever go to Bialowieza, there's a restaurant where they serve wisent steaks (the population is legally regulated when a surplus of wisents is born). You can eat that. Not really soft, the meat. The animal, a very bad pet, unless you own a forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stork
This one is actually almost a pet in the countryside. Not domesticated, but it lives near humans and is believed to bring luck. So people put an old tire on the roof, and if they're lucky, a pair of storks makes a nest in the tire and comes back every spring.
But again, a bad pet, unless you own a house in the countryside.
they used to have these in my grand-uncles' paddi fiels, the stork, not the mega-cow. My mum has eaten it in a curry.
Better not mention it if you are in Poland! 
Here it would be as shocking as eating a neighbour's dog... If we'd have a "holy animal", a stork would be a good candidate 
For New Zealand I guess the Kea is a real border case: One the one hand intelligent and prying (and beautiful), on the other hand too prying and destructive.
Wikipedia writes:
"The Kea are attracted by the prospect of food scraps from human habitation. Their curiosity leads them to peck and carry away unguarded items of clothing, or to pry apart rubber parts of cars - to the entertainment and annoyance of human observers. They are often described as "cheeky"."
Who comes to my mind with all this characteristics?
hobglobin on Mar 18 2009, 05:39 PM said:
Wikipedia writes:
"The Kea are attracted by the prospect of food scraps from human habitation. Their curiosity leads them to peck and carry away unguarded items of clothing, or to pry apart rubber parts of cars - to the entertainment and annoyance of human observers. They are often described as "cheeky"."
Who comes to my mind with all this characteristics?
...well, that's certainly not me.......but this is YOU:
this invader's primary target now- our dearest maple tree....
casandra on Mar 18 2009, 10:59 PM said:
hobglobin on Mar 18 2009, 05:39 PM said:
Wikipedia writes:
"The Kea are attracted by the prospect of food scraps from human habitation. Their curiosity leads them to peck and carry away unguarded items of clothing, or to pry apart rubber parts of cars - to the entertainment and annoyance of human observers. They are often described as "cheeky"."
Who comes to my mind with all this characteristics?
...well, that's certainly not me.......but this is YOU:this invader's primary target now- our dearest maple tree....
Hm, maple syrup is tasty
, but I'm not Asian. hobglobin on Mar 18 2009, 06:03 PM said:
casandra on Mar 18 2009, 10:59 PM said:
hobglobin on Mar 18 2009, 05:39 PM said:
Wikipedia writes:
"The Kea are attracted by the prospect of food scraps from human habitation. Their curiosity leads them to peck and carry away unguarded items of clothing, or to pry apart rubber parts of cars - to the entertainment and annoyance of human observers. They are often described as "cheeky"."
Who comes to my mind with all this characteristics?
...well, that's certainly not me.......but this is YOU:this invader's primary target now- our dearest maple tree....
Hm, maple syrup is tasty
, but I'm not Asian.hmm..but the analogy is appropriate I think....
... ... should we get you a bowl of milk, casandra? 
We have similar destructive habits from our sulphur-crested cockatoos, but they do it to sharpen their beaks!!
swanny on Mar 19 2009, 07:52 AM said:
We have similar destructive habits from our sulphur-crested cockatoos, but they do it to sharpen their beaks!!
Can I see these in Sydney?- I"m passing through at the end of April on my way to New Zealand, my only stop in Australia. They're much cuter than our resident destructo-birds; damn crows were having a mardi gras at the rubbish in my street again this morning
. swanny on Mar 18 2009, 06:52 PM said:
We have similar destructive habits from our sulphur-crested cockatoos, but they do it to sharpen their beaks!!
milk? ppfftt...bring me a whetstone and some honing steel
.....speaking of a not-so-destructo birdo, we have this little winged rascal:
Canada Jay aka Grey Jay, Whickey Jack, Camp Robber, screams almost as good as our dear Celine....