danceswithtree t1_j6jqnhc wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:42 PM

I'm calling shenanigans. The potato quality video is to hide what's really going on. Those are fake birds attached to the guy somehow. The flapping is impressively real though. There is no way the birds can maintain flight going so slow that a clumsily running guy can keep up. FAKE.

Edit: I find it funny that people are downvoting. Is it because I'm stating the obvious or because you think this is real?!

Another Edit: Thank you u/n-some for the link to the youtube video. I was wrong. Apparently flying parrots on a leash is possible. I'm impressed with the parrots and the owner.

izzzi t1_j6k9061 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 10:37 PM

All birds are fake. Your reasoning is redundant.

n-some t1_j6ke6td wrote on January 30, 2023 at 11:11 PM

https://youtu.be/cjsnbfvkpis

I thought the same thing at first, but it's real.

danceswithtree t1_j6kjzdz wrote on January 30, 2023 at 11:52 PM

OK. I stand corrected. Thanks for the video!

Chris20nyy t1_j6kjrzq wrote on January 30, 2023 at 11:50 PM

>Edit: I find it funny that people are downvoting. Is it because I'm stating the obvious or because you think this is real?!

They're downvoting you because you made this cockamamie argument about how it can't be real, when I fact it is real.

DocPeacock t1_j6k65xl wrote on January 30, 2023 at 10:19 PM

This video might be fake, but I just last week had friends of mine saying they saw someone walking a couple macaws like this. Like the birds were flying and the owner was walking along. It sounded insane to me but I don't know why they would have lied about it.

generalized_disdain t1_j6jvan3 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:11 PM

Yeah it seems pretty obvious, and imo it's entertaining because it's obvious.

danceswithtree t1_j6jzplh wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:38 PM

OK. I agree it's amusing but some people respond as if real birds (they exist, right?) are being mistreated.