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African Gray Parrots: Purchase, Acclimation, Care, Diet, Diseases With a Special Chapter on Understanding the African Gray Parrot (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)

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I have read a couple of books on the same subject (African Grey Parrots) and this so far is the most up to date book with also the most information out of the books I have read. It has a special chapter on Understanding Grey Parrots that is very helpful. It is information packed with such chapters as 1. Considerations Before You Buy 2. Buying And Housing A Parrot 3. Keeping And Caring For An African Grey Parrot 4. Diet 5. Diseases And How To Keep Your Parrot Healthy, among other chapters. I also enjoyed reading about "Partnership Between Bird And Human." It was a unique section. This book is filled full of informative chapters and high quality color pictures. If you own an African Grey Parrot, or are looking to own an African Grey Parrot this is a book for you. I bought this book to research African Grey parrots as pets and this book helped me to decide to buy one as a pet. Because of this book I am now an African Grey Parrot owner. This book also helped equipped me to be able to take care of an African Grey Parrot. This is a great book !

This book is MUST reading for African Grey owners!The information is just right in breadth anddetail. Very important information is covered which bird owners need to be aware of since African Grays are very intelligent birds. I give a copy of this book to everyone who purchases a Gray from me!

This book has some good info if you dig really deep and know what you are looking for. It talks about things to do to your AG that are out of date, and could be bad to your birds health. It also speaks of taking the birds out of the jungle, which does not happen very much any more, if at all. If you want a good book about african greys, look at the copyright date, it says a lot.

This book is obviously dated as it was written back when wild caught birds were available due to the fact that domestic raised birds were difficult to find. Annette, therefore gives information on taming a frightened bird instead of on a new baby African Grey Parrot loving to be cuddled.

She provides good information on the need for proper sized cages & play areas as well as information on making your bird's own climbing structure.

She has listed a good selection of foods to feed your bird, although there is no mention of a pelleted diet, which has now become a good basic staple in many birds' diets.

She has a section on diseases & how to keep your bird healthy with good information for you to follow.

The section on Understanding African Gray Parrots is very thorough and informative. This section, combined with the good information in several of the other sections, outweigh the dated information in a couple of the other sections of the book.

I found that there was a lot of good information in this book, HOWEVER, the author speaks about the bird being "captured from the jungle" and brought into a domestic situation. I CAN NOT stress how much that this is the absolute WRONG way to obtain ANY bird. When purchasing African Grey's (and any other animal for that matter) make absolute CERTAIN that it came from a domesticated breeder, and NOT from the wilderness.

The publications (books) will be rated as soon as I have read them 2 times. However I would like to write an ordinary paper for publication in a well recommended international journal.

Can you recommend one? Or shall I surch for it myself?

The topic should include: How to bye an African Grey. Do not mix up parrots and dogs. Dogs, the humans establiched contact with 14.000 B.C. (Boessneck, 1985). Coresponding time for parrots is 200 years. Education of dogs is based on punischment/reward. That does not work on parrots. The parrot indetifies the punisher as a hawk or an other kind of predator.

Just a first idea of the content for a short publication from a beginner i this "field of science". Time for sending the paper to referees approx, April-01.

I am a professor in metallurgy since 1983 (metals forming) and have written written other kinds of articles outside my professional discipline( Fish for aquarium, "Tropheus" from the lake of Tanganyika in Africa)

So I am not a beginner in writing

Ulf

if you could direct me in the area of a author who writes about the african gray parrot in spanish, version i would be most thnkful