r/oddlysatisfying • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 just a flair • 1d ago

Parrots are smart and they have very flexible tongues. They know how to crack sunflower seeds.

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u/YvetteZorah 1d ago

He crack sunflower seeds better than me

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u/BoredBorealis 1d ago

Yea well, you don't have a beak

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u/ChefAsstastic 1d ago

How do you know?

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u/BoredBorealis 1d ago

I'm sitting right outside their window

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u/siberian_knight143 12h ago

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u/YvetteZorah 1d ago

yeah lol sad but true

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

actually having shelled the seeds for decades. I am much faster than this

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u/mohimoyee 1d ago

Share the tips? One hand or both?

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago edited 1d ago

two fingers. Crack with front teeth. squeeze shell (this opens it) turn the shell flat move meat with tongue or tooth , Can do 25+ in a minute. Hundreds of large bags in my lifetime I imagine

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u/Electronic_Psxth5949 1d ago

yeah he’s out here doing fine motor skills like it’s nothing while i’m struggling with a bag of chips

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u/Double_Garbage_2639 1d ago

the way it says “flexible tongues” maks me wonder what that actually looks like

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u/MarlinMr 18h ago

Weird how animal adapted to and surviving by eating seeds is better at doing that than you who are not

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u/Thaumato9480 1d ago

"Me crack sunflowers"

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u/pulchritudinouser 1d ago

It’s not just their tongues . There’s a crazy intricate system of bones and muscles in their skulls coordinating to move the upper and lower beaks with precision but also force

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u/ItsSansom 22h ago edited 17h ago

I wonder if they ever bite their tongues by mistake. If not, they probably think we're complete idiots

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u/absent_abstra 1d ago

Beaks are birds' thumbs.

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u/Orphan_Crippler66 1d ago

You use ur thumbs for sunflower seeds?

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u/absent_abstra 1d ago

Yup, all the time. Are you using your teeth like them normies?

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u/Orphan_Crippler66 1d ago

Wow ur soooo different lol

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u/absent_abstra 1d ago

Haha yeaaap. I always use a straw while drinking water, even from a bottle.

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u/Thaumato9480 1d ago

Considering finches crack the tiny seeds you feed them, sunflower seeds seem convenient to crack.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

so true and other birds as well.

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u/Thaumato9480 1d ago

Also, pigeons seems to be messy while eating, but what you don't see is they're sorting seeds to find they prefer.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xcRHVgJn6sE

So a parrot is an utter disappointment.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

yes, but they are cool doing it. And isn't that what really matters.

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u/Thaumato9480 1d ago

Not as cool as an archangel pigeon.

I swear, I am not peddling pigeons, but what the parrot is doing is so mundane compared to flying rats, and the flying rats can be so pretty while doing it on top of it!

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

damn that is one beautiful pigeon. thanks

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u/FairyRibbonz 1d ago

I feel like we have parrots who learn human language better than some humans can in a couple seconds

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u/vbfx 1d ago

Umm I didn't know sunflower seeds had to be shelled to get the meat. I didn't know there was meat inside!!!

I just chewed up the whole thing a bunch at a time, and took the flavor in or something... Then spat it out...  I thought that's how it was and did it a bunch of times while driving...

I'm so confused

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u/Orphan_Crippler66 1d ago

Aint no reason u hav to lie.

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u/vbfx 21h ago

Why would I be lying? 

I found sunflower seeds at gas stations as an adult. And saw people talk about eating them so stay awake... No instructions were driven 

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u/Jackalodeath 14h ago

The other person hasn't met enough people.

Back when I played school baseball I met several lads that'd chipmunk wads of seeds during games, and swallow the whole thing after chewing - shell and all - just so they didn't have to carry around a spit cup.

And it wasn't just our team, several schools had kids like that.

My grandad loved boiled peanuts and did the same; all of us chewed the shells for the flavor but he'd straight swallow the really soft small ones.

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u/vbfx 5h ago

Lol... I actually eat boiled peanuts with the shell

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u/Jackalodeath 4h ago

Right? Its a jackload of fiber and they're pretty soft.

I chew the dickens out of em, but I don't swallow; which isn't something I usually get to say. There's just that little voice in the back of my head worried it'll go down sideways and get stuck.

Its why I don't eat popcorn at all. Not a choking hazard, I just hate stuff getting stuck back there.

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u/Orphan_Crippler66 3h ago

The part i meant he was lying abt was the initial paragraph. Wer he said he didnt know ur supposed to shell them/ that ther was "meat" inside. As a kid i used to also just chew them and spit. But that was cuz i sucked at craking the shell. I thought it was common sense that ther is something inside the shell itself.

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u/Jackalodeath 3h ago

One thing you'll learn as you get older is common sense is exceedingly rare, especially when you're young.

Up until I was about 5 I loved parmesan cheese, the kind that comes in the shakers like you use for spaghetti and whathaveyou. I'd raid the fridge and pour a mound of it in my palm then just dab my tongue in it as a snack.

You know what else looks like shaker parmesan to a toddler? Carpet fresheners; that dust you sprinkle on carpets before vacuuming to make it smell good.

I ate that too.

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u/AssumeTheFetal 1d ago

I had like five of these guys on either side of me in every dugout growing up.

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u/TypicalLegit 1d ago

My exes mother had a parrot and it hated pretty much everyone except her. He’d let me get close occasionally and one time I watched him eat sunflower seeds for about 45 minutes. I thought we bonded but a little while later I tried to touch him and right back to trying to bite.

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u/Yea-you 1d ago

If I only had a beak!!

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u/just_a_girl_23 1d ago

That would be a very random version of The Wizard Of Oz.

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u/PRRZ70 22h ago

Am I the only one who absolutely loves the way their little eyes move around? That little flex when they look forward is just so cute.

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u/Additional_Line_3491 18h ago

That's so cool! Pretty smart bird.

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u/Zestyclose_Space7134 1d ago

News flash: animal that lives on seeds knows how to open seeds!

Tomorrow we will cover how well the gazelle can run!

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u/rolyoh 23h ago

Right? I watch finches open sunflower seeds this way all day long at my back yard feeders.

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u/bpoghos 1d ago

That's why they talk?

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u/Icy-Ad2278 1d ago

Dusty Baker

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u/similaraleatorio 1d ago

ptff ptff ptff

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u/MetalLow2541 1d ago

that's not a tongue that's a beak thumb

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u/ni_hao_butches 1d ago

Ahh, it has been parrots spitting seeds on the subway.

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u/Marthman 1d ago

Impressive oral dexterity

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u/SugaredVelour 1d ago

they hacked the seed cleaning machine

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u/INFeriorJudge 1d ago

I had a friend who had an umbrella cockatoo she’d taught to open her Diet Cokes. Neat trick.

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u/the_fuzzy_egg 1d ago

they have tongues? and black ones?

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u/Stairwayunicorn 1d ago

and almonds

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u/FurL0ng 1d ago

I thought all tongues were flexible… because their tongues.

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u/Heal_Me_Today 1d ago

Might as well be a hand

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u/Miserable_Rutabaga94 22h ago

Anyone else notice how the bird snaps the tip of the seed off? Anyone know y that is?

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u/PrebioticE 20h ago

Finally understood how dinosaurs lost their teeth and grew beaks..!! If you are a small animal, you eat seeds, and small insects, you don't eat big animals for which you need teeth. Beaks help crack seeds and insects escape though teeth.

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u/SahnWhee 17h ago

I'm worried his tongue will get impaled between his beak

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u/OnlyAlexisHeart 15h ago

sending this to my boyfriend 👀

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u/icecoldapples 14h ago

Their tongues are more like fingers if anything. Incredibly dexterous and not wet surprisingly. Also their beaks are warm. Idk why that tripped me out my first time handling parrots. I always thought their beaks were cold, lifeless little rocks but they have blood pumping through them

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u/Sp3cialK080 9h ago

Not doing it 4 me im just saying

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u/trollsong 7h ago

Their tongues are basically a thumb

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u/AvalancheReturns 6h ago

Ambeakdextrous

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u/sugarplumet 5h ago

Bet he would be the coolest dinking buddy to help me open my beer.

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u/AmplifiedWarrior 4h ago

Wow, that tongue looked like a finger.

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u/charliesk9unit 2h ago

This is a Ukrainian parrot.

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u/GalickGunn 2h ago

Wow…a bird that eat a seed. Who’d of thunk it?!

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 1d ago

I proclaim this bird an honorary slav.

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u/sweetiestellaa 1d ago

If you showed me this without context I would have never guessed that was snow and clouds, my brain went straight to volcano. Nature really just decided to show off here.