Hold up. If a bird is bonded to you, and it does it, does it even count as baitin’? Sounds more like it’s trying to mate with its mate.
This is actually one part of why fully hand-rearing baby parrots should not be done. When they don’t perceive themselves as birds and will only bond to humans, they can get extremely frustrated since humans can’t properly answer to their instinctual needs like mating behavior. This then easily leads to plenty of behavioral issues like excessive screaming and aggression towards even the human they’re bonded with. Never seek to become a birds mate, just be friends with them
Can you explain why a bird bonded to you from early childhood would also be sexually attracted to you? To humans in general I could understand but why to you, the “parent”? Are birds less opposed to incest?
There’s a difference between incest and inbreeding. Opposition to incest, that is sex for pleasure among family members, is a moral position, and apparently unique to humans.
Inbreeding, sex for reproduction, is blocked on a biological level more strongly in some species than others, but it still happens, of course.
In humans, and perhaps other species, there is sometimes sexual disinterest in closely related family members, but this is not “opposition to incest”, and certainly is not universal.
Well yeah, inbreeding is what I meant. Didn’t actually know there was a difference.
Still, I’ve read that many animals prefer not to fuck/breed with relatives. Except some pigeons in cities apparently, they prefer their relatives if Wikipedia and my memory of that article is to be believed.
Better phrasing would’ve probably been “Lack of sexual interest in family”.
This is actually one part of why fully hand-rearing baby parrots should not be done. When they don’t perceive themselves as birds and will only bond to humans, they can get extremely frustrated since humans can’t properly answer to their instinctual needs like mating behavior. This then easily leads to plenty of behavioral issues like excessive screaming and aggression towards even the human they’re bonded with. Never seek to become a birds mate, just be friends with them
Can you explain why a bird bonded to you from early childhood would also be sexually attracted to you? To humans in general I could understand but why to you, the “parent”? Are birds less opposed to incest?
There’s a difference between incest and inbreeding. Opposition to incest, that is sex for pleasure among family members, is a moral position, and apparently unique to humans.
Inbreeding, sex for reproduction, is blocked on a biological level more strongly in some species than others, but it still happens, of course.
In humans, and perhaps other species, there is sometimes sexual disinterest in closely related family members, but this is not “opposition to incest”, and certainly is not universal.
Well yeah, inbreeding is what I meant. Didn’t actually know there was a difference.
Still, I’ve read that many animals prefer not to fuck/breed with relatives. Except some pigeons in cities apparently, they prefer their relatives if Wikipedia and my memory of that article is to be believed.
Better phrasing would’ve probably been “Lack of sexual interest in family”.
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