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NEWS: Can Your Parakeet Dunk?

Colin_ORegan

Brooklyn, NY

May 2006

JAN 24, 2007 09:19 AM

CULTURE: Can Your Parakeet Dunk?

One man has taken his bird to new heights, teaching it to golf, and play basketball.

The parakeet's name is A.J. and is a regular on The Tonight Show and Late Night, but YouTube and other online video hosts are making A.J. a routine escape for office workers needing a break from the monotony. A.J.'s trainer is David Cota who explains that his introduction into the world of bird training was due to alcohol and binge drinking in college.

Cota, who works for sports apparel distributor in southwest Florida, stumbled into the world of bird training by accident.

In college, he and his friends were impressed by Axl's [Cota's first parakeet] skills at the college drinking game "quarters." The goal is to bounce quarters into a glass, or drink if you miss. Axl would run down runaway quarters and dunk them.

"The bird became kind of like the wild card," Cota said. "You could bid to have the bird on your team, so if you missed and the bird would put it in, you'd still get credit. So I just turned that quarter game into basketball."

A.J. now knows far more tricks than Axl did.

What's in the pipeline right now? Cota and A.J. are working on some water skiing lessons.

Here is a montage of A.J.'s skills:

KorbenDallas

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January 2005

JAN 24, 2007 11:07 AM

He could if i forced him to, but i just let him do his own thing.

Widow

Austin, TX

February 2004

JAN 24, 2007 11:48 AM

this is so neat! love love love it. cute as hell. Being a veggie I love vids that show how animals are smart too. they are not meals dammit.

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SUICIDEGIRL

Florida, USA

JAN 24, 2007 12:24 PM

Awww
I adore birdies!!!

Xerxes

South Africa

June 2005

JAN 24, 2007 12:46 PM

that is really amazing. Birds are by far my favourite type of animal

MrCrisp

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August 2004

JAN 24, 2007 02:27 PM

Widow said:
Being a veggie I love vids that show how animals are smart too.

why do you think we eat them? supremacy.

Jaylin

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 24, 2007 03:51 PM

I would teach that bird to feed me. But that's just cuz I really am that lazy.