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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship

by Joanna Burger

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A Long-Term Bond Between an Ornithologist and Her Parrot

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A Long-Term Bond Between an Ornithologist and Her Parrot

Joanna Burger frames her seventeen-year relationship with Tiko, a neglected thirty-year-old parrot, alongside her professional knowledge of bird behavior. The account traces a changing domestic bond: Tiko arrives wary and hostile, then becomes increasingly attached to Burger, with courtship, protectiveness during her illness, and conflict over her husband all part of the relationship described. Beyond this personal history, the book incorporates discussion of parrot science and considers how close observation of another species can illuminate human behavior. It is both a record of one unusually sustained human-animal connection and an exploration of parrots as complex social beings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in parrots and avian behavior
  • Pet memoir readers seeking a long-term human-animal relationship
  • Readers interested in popular science grounded in an ornithologist's work

Themes

Human-animal bondsParrot behaviorOrnithologyTrust and attachmentHuman behavior

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Book overview

Seventeen years ago, when she adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-year-old parrot named Tiko, the internationally renowned ornithologist Joanna Burger entered one of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger's home, Tiko gradually warmed up, courting her during mating season, nursing her vigilantly through a bout with Lyme disease, and for a while even fighting her husband for her attentions. In time theirs was a relationship of deep mutual trust.

The Parrot Who Owns Me is Joanna and Tiko's story, as well as the story of the science of birds, and of parrots in particular. Woven into the narrative are insights and fascinating revelations from Dr. Burger's work--not only about parrots, but also about what it means to be human.
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