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[Megapixel]

but its fine for you to call someone a hypocrite,

Who did I ever call a hypocrite???

 

[Freespin]

Has anyone ever read anything about this occurring naturally? It seems so wrong and un natural to me but I do often wonder if left completely undisturbed wild animals ever do this...

 

[JerseyWendy]

Has anyone ever read anything about this occurring naturally? It seems so wrong and un natural to me but I do often wonder if left completely undisturbed wild animals ever do this...

You got me quite curious, so I did some digging

Correlates of the occurrence of inbreeding in a wild bird population

Do Some Birds Cheat to Avoid Inbreeding?

Damaging effect of inbreeding in birds vastly underestimated - News releases - News - The University of Sheffield

 

[MikeyTN]

Thank you Wendy! That's part of the point I was trying to make with the studies!

 

[Mike17]

Inbreeding is rampant in nature. Remote islands are often populated by weakly-flighted birds (contrary to logic, perhaps) in small numbers, which then become flightless over time in the absence of predators. There is even a flightless fly on Macquarie Island (an Oz sub-Antarctic island)- the ancestors made it there and then found it was safer to jump from plant to plant rather than try to fly- as it's windy they'd be blown away. "Founder effect" is important too- feral cats only made it to Lord Howe Island from shipwrecks and those I saw there in 1990s were mostly black.

I have a pair of lutino pearl cinnamon 'tiels which came from a cage of about 20 at a bird shop- they look very similar to each other, they've bonded but female has not laid eggs. I worry they are related - even siblings. I had hoped our Pavarotti would choose the female from the other pair but he chose his current partner, Pavarotti and his lady came from bird shops 100km apart.

 

[antoinette]

You see this done quite often and it's very sad thing to happen. Some people just don't know any better.

The worst is when it does not go according to plan WHO are the ones who suffer THE ANIMALS

 

[antoinette]

But there's risks involved!!!! That's why I would never do it. But your point is?????

My point is, don't be too against it, it could make you a hypocrite.

Mikey is not being a hypocrite. He is just being HONEST

 

[Megapixel]

But there's risks involved!!!! That's why I would never do it. But your point is?????

My point is, don't be too against it, it could make you a hypocrite.

Mikey is not being a hypocrite. He is just being HONEST

I never said he or anyone else was a hypocrite.

 

[Freespin]

"I never meant to staaarrrttt a waaaaaarr!!" *Sings Miley*

 

[tab_xo]

"I never meant to staaarrrttt a waaaaaarr!!" *Sings Miley*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[MikeyTN]

"I never meant to staaarrrttt a waaaaaarr!!" *Sings Miley*

LoL.....

I came in like a wrecking ball......

All you ever did was break me. Yeah, you wreck me....

 

[Freespin]

Hehe i was going to continue with more but it didnt seem quite as appropriate as that line XD

 

[MikeyTN]

You had the perfect line!!!!!!! lol