Copyright © 2008, Cherie Phillips
September 28, 2008, 7:17 a.m.
Can you see the Mynah Birds resting on the palm tree?
Copyright © 2008, Cherie Phillips
September 28, 2008, 7:17 a.m.
Close-up of the Mynah Birds
from the photo above.
MYNAH BIRDS
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September 28, 2008. The Mynah birds have arena fights with crowds and a referee on each side in which two birds wrestle and flip with their wings partially spread to show the white emblem on the feather design, and they ball up one foot into a fist for boxing. As one bird is thrust onto his back, the other bird holds him down with one foot and then hits him again and again in the face with his balled up foot-fist.
However, it appears to be a sport show of might, which apes also practice, and is probably well-rehearsed fake wrestling because I have never seen any bird get injured in this dramatic show. Mynah birds maintain a pure race with no tolerance for deformities nor deviation in genetic design, and refrain from eating junk foods from tourists. They are never seen walking on the beach and are more aloof from people. Their language is extremely complex and they are known to make sounds that are so profoundly beautiful that it is startling to hear.
Observing many animals in Hawaii, it makes me think, we are so similar to them. The Zebra Doves and Leopard Doves bow upon greeting each other like the Japanese and are very courteous socially. Many grown birds like to be fed by the mouth from another bird, particularly when they are romantically involved. They also like junk foods just like us. They love spaghetti with meat balls, rice wrapped in seaweed, sandwiches with lettuce, cream-filled donuts, popcorn, fried chicken, fish, and ice cream nutty buddies (see them in front of the ice cream parlor waiting for a big iceberg to fall from your lips into their open beaks), and french fries, hamburgers with sesame seed bun, milk shakes, tuna fish, salmon cakes, 12-grain bread, and so on.
They like to sit on the dock of the Ala Wai and watch the tide roll away. They like sports, such as boxing and scare-zoom, where one bird will come right at you and then at the last minute zoom straight up while other birds cheer him on, but leaving you terrified. They like to free fall straight down and then suddenly fly at the very last second.
They argue a lot - really loud. I approached a bush that had no visible birds but they were yakking up a storm and the whole bush was shaking, but as I came nearer, it was totally silent until I passed by, and then the bush starting shaking with yakking again.
Copyright © 2008, Cherie Phillips
October 1, 2008, 9:01 a.m.
Zebra Dove on your right.
Leopard Dove on your left.
The Leopard Doves are much larger than the Zebra Doves. The Leopard Doves are about the same size as the White Doves that we see the most in Hawaii.
Don't tell me birds of a feather flock together. They flock with feathers of great diversity, because they love being around different species, and share food together, and often you see three or four different kinds of birds walking down the street together like good buddies. But, at night, when the lights go out, they all have a home and the Zebra Doves coo to call their kind, and the larger doves fly home in groups with their kind, and the Mynah birds nest with their kind, and then -- there is silence throughout the island as the birds love nestle together into dreamland.
But, the moment the sun peaks over the mountain, the symphony of birds perform -all at the same time - in a phenomenal variety of sounds. I think the intelligence of birds is manifest in the complexity of their language which is based on the ability to make extraordinary and complex tones, sounds, gurgles, yoodles, coos, sqwaks, and every possible sound that no one could ever imagine until heard. I remember in Florida, there was a bird who would sing the entire bird alphabet every morning, from simple to increasingly complex sounds. It is shocking that some professors teach that birds do not have a language, but they clearly do, as they respond to each other's language in complex ways, and wow, can they ever argue - one then the other - back and forth, one responding to the other's insulting verbiage.
They are so similar to us, yet, their brain is tiny in comparison to ours. Although, it seems -- that their brain size is about what we are presently using. What is this huge brain for? It is like a baby foot in a boat-sized shoe. But, why? There must be a lot more wisdom available to us than we realize, because we are not functioning that differently from other animals with smaller brains. But how do we make our complex brain work? It's like waking up in the morning and finding a new computer invention, and you turn it on easily but you don't know how to make the programs work because the instructions are written in complex computer codes such that only those who achieve wisdom can figure out the mathematics to make the trillions of programs function.
Mynah bird resting in a palm tree:
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