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My old friend had a Cockatoo who lived with them as a kid, but wasn't captive at all. He just chose to spend his time with them after they found him orphaned an
by ehnto 5y ago
My old friend had a Cockatoo who lived with them as a kid, but wasn't captive at all. He just chose to spend his time with them after they found him orphaned and took care of him for a while. He would disappear for a day or two and come back, and he would follow my friend to school and hang out around the classrooms waiting. The teachers would try to shoo him and he would rage against the machine, they are loud as hell. Appropriately, his name was "Rowdy".
"Cockatoos... producing an average of 120 decibels and loudest of 135 decibels of noise. The loudness can be judged by looking at the noise level of 140 decibels of a 747 Jumbo Jet."
- blincoln 5y agoI wonder if their ears are physically more resistant to hearing damage than ours, or if they're just guaranteed to go deaf as they age.
- ehnto 5y agoIn captivity they can live up to 80 years old so if it's possible someone knows the answer to that. I have to imagine they have something similar to humans ears where we have a muscle to dampen the sounds of our jaw area and voice.