From : "Fritz Henry" bigfritzer@hotmail.com
To : aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org
Subject : Nature's Way
Date : Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:03:30 -0700
I have two questions for you at the Aquarium of the Pacific. One of the questions is going to be very general. The other question will be fiarly spacific. Okay, here goes... this question will be general. How do you feel about the Lorikeet Forest? I am a little sketchy on the whole thing. Let me tell you why: I do not like think that birds belong anywhere near the marine animals. And I will tell you why: Birds are not smart. Birds are dangerous. Birds have claws. My roommate's fiance used to have a parrot, named Chewie, who would climb up my shoulder using my sleeve and his beak. Then he would sit on my shoulder and look at my eye with his eye and I thought I would "lose my lunch" (I didn't!) and then I would look back at him. Then I thought that he would bite me, right on the pupil. Is that possible? I think it could mean serious pupiliary damage. Would that be covered in the $17 entrance fee? Do Lorikeets bite? I would think that between all of the hundreds of birds that would be flying around in the forest that at least one of those things would bite. If one of the birds stared biting and then tauht the rest of the birds to start biting, would that be unnatural or woul d it be "Nature's Way?" I am in the pool of thought that you would not want the bird that bites anywhere near the rest of the birds that don't bite, unless you weren't worried about the birds biting humans, but instead about them biting each other. Can one bird give another bird rabies? Do you call it rabies with birds? Or is it modified and called babies?
My brother (Lake Henry) was bitten by a bird with babies (OR AT LEAST WE THOUGHT IT WAS A BIRD!) when we at my Grandma Creamer's place in Belvedere, IL. He reached over to feed the thing some ritz bitz and then it lept right up and bit him on the mandisculis. It got all inflamed and everyhing like that. Wow! I hate birds. We were able to hit it with my Wilson and then run it over with the pushmower. Later on he kept getting headaches and nausia. If you puke from babies, then you probably know what it feels liek to really be sick from a bird's bite.
Are sugar gliders considered birds. I knew this girl, Angela Pond, who had some sugar gliders in her pocket and then they jumped out and they glided to the bureau and they jumped from the bureau and they glided to the wardrobe. She said that they were furry, but is it possible that birds have hair? I think it look's liek the Whiskey Jack has hair? Wow, I'm woofed.
I wiould like to come by and see sugar gliders at your Lorikeet Forest. thank You. I will be by before monday. Do not worry, I will have already gotten my babies shots.
-Fritz Henry
P.S. My second question was only this: Do you think there's anyway that someone could stop by the Sharkey's on the pier? Is that a pier? I was there last weekend with a girl. woman? lady? I left my recipe book there. I could really use it these days. Times are rough