It was probably trying to work out which comes first: the chick or the egg.
On 27/12/2015 2:49 PM, Sue Lashko wrote:
> This morning in Aranda Bushland, I saw something I had not seen before
> - an Olive-caked Oriole chick which fledged on Xmas Day being
> repeatedly prodded in the rear end by one of its parents. Clearly
> this was not a pleasant experience as the chick was doing a lot of
> squawking and trying to present its beak rather than its bum to the
> offending adult. (Yes, I can feel a Geoffrey Dabb cartoon being
> created!). This went on for at least 4 minutes and I thought it might
> be some weird form of toilet training and that the adult might end up
> with a faecal sac - but, no.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to what this apparently painful experience
> was all about?
>
> Cheers
> Sue
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