Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
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Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#2Animalus Anthropomorphicus, "the animal as seen through the human eyes."
I think Dindim has found a source of free food. Although it's a win win because who doesn't want to be visited by a penguin.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#3Animalus Anthropomorphicus, "the animal as seen through the human eyes." I think Dindim has found a source of free food. Although it's a win win because who doesn't want to be visited by a penguin.
Very unlikely that any animal will swim hundreds or thousands of miles to a free food joint, there’s easier ways to eat. And there’s biologists on record saying that this imprinting does happen with handlers and they try to avoid it in research situations.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#4Is it possible the penguin thinks this is his mate?
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#5Is it possible the penguin thinks this is his mate?
> He believes that Dindim now interprets Proveta as his home, and imprinted on the 71-year-old, whom Dindim sees as a partner. For reasons like these, most professionals try to avoid this circumstance.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#6Is it possible the penguin thinks this is his mate?
Yes, this possibility is mentioned in the article.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#7Animalus Anthropomorphicus, "the animal as seen through the human eyes." I think Dindim has found a source of free food. Although it's a win win because who doesn't want to be visited by a penguin.
Very unlikely that any animal will swim hundreds or thousands of miles to a free food joint, there’s easier ways to eat. And there’s biologists on record saying that this imprinting does happen with handlers and they try to avoid it in research situations.
Do you recall any specific methods for preventing imprinting?
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#8> It's technically illegal to have a wild animal as a pet in Brazil, as officials want to ensure vulnerable creatures don't get separated from their families and that they can be reintroduced into the wild after injury.
Same where I am. I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet?
For example, I give peanuts to the wild squirrels around my house. This is not illegal where I live. It is illegal, however, to keep a wild squirrel as a pet.
Several of the squirrels seem to recognize me, and run up to me when I go out, get up on their hind legs, and wave their front paws around in a gesture that looks like they are asking for peanuts.
I'm pretty sure some of them would come inside to get their peanuts if I opened the front door but did not go outside. From there I could probably train them to essentially be pets [1].
But would they legally be pets, and therefore illegal, if they were free to come and go at will? Or would they simply be wild animals coming into human space, which happens to be controlled by a human who isn't going to make them leave?
A co-worker had a similar situation with a raccoon. He was giving her food, and she got more and more comfortable with him, to the point she would come right up, and peacefully accept food and petting. She even brought her babies by apparently to show them to him.
Was he legally keeping a pet raccoon?
[1] I don't actually want squirrels in my house. In fact, I've done some looking into squirrel traps in case one does come in and I need to get it out. That almost happened a couple of times when I was tossing peanuts from the door, and one squirrel startled another from behind, causing the first squirrel to dash forward right toward my door.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very unlikely that any animal will swim hundreds or thousands of miles to a free food joint, there’s easier ways to eat. And there’s biologists on record saying that this imprinting does happen with handlers and they try to avoid it in research situations.
Do you recall any specific methods for preventing imprinting?
Handlers wear sock puppets resembling the target species, and interact via the puppet while the human face pretends to be ignoring the action. If the animals imprint on the puppet, it stops existing when the handler takes it off, and the nearest alternatives are live animals of their own species.
Re: Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
#10> It's technically illegal to have a wild animal as a pet in Brazil, as officials want to ensure vulnerable creatures don't get separated from their families and that they can be reintroduced into the wild after injury. Same where I am. I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet? For example, I give peanuts to the wild squirrels around my house. This is not illegal where I live. It is illegal, however, to keep a w…
> I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet?
We don't need categories to be so rigid.
I have some squirrels in the yard who recognise me and follow me around until I feed them.
I call them 'yard pets'.
Sometimes they come into the house when they are too excited, but I've never had trouble escorting them out.
I don't particularly like the idea of laws getting in the way of my relationship with animals, even if they are wild.