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| Salukfan |
 Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Iago comments in "Fowl Weather" that he came to the desert because he didn't like the temperature in the rain forest. Better for his sinuses.  |
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| guest |
| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Jafaria wrote: |
He's also a species of parrot that doesn't live in the Middle East or even Africa. The "science experiment" reasoning sounds more plausible every day.
Or magic experiment. Maybe he was a person that was so annoying, a wizard turned him into a bird. (Not Jafar, since he seems to have already been a parrot when Jafar found him. Another wizard.) |
How did Iago end up in the Middle East? He's a Scarlet Macaw, right? If he is, then he came all the way from the American Tropics!
What a weird bird -_- No wonder he eats his own kind. |
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| StarSlug |
| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| The real problem is that birds have much lower morphological diversity than mammals: their basic body shape is very similar, as wildly differing shapes would be unable to fly. The only real weird birds are flightless ones, like ostriches and penguins. Mammals are a tad more flexible, and look quite different, so eating each other seems less cannibalistic. |
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| Syera |
| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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He could have learned about vibrating chairs from Genie, or the Sultan might have a windup vibrating chair somewhere abouts.
I also wouldn't consider a parrot eating a chicken cannibalism, no more than I'd consider a human eating another mammal or a snake eating a lizard cannibalism. |
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| Calluna |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Mariposa79 wrote: |
| Poor Gilbert Gottfried. He didn't have a chance. as in reference, "When Chaos comes a calling" yes he is also is a magical being because he knows of a reclining chair that vibrates. |
He doesn't set off the magic detectors in "Wind Jackals", though... |
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| Mariposa79 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Jafaria wrote: |
He's also a species of parrot that doesn't live in the Middle East or even Africa. The "science experiment" reasoning sounds more plausible every day.
Or magic experiment. Maybe he was a person that was so annoying, a wizard turned him into a bird. (Not Jafar, since he seems to have already been a parrot when Jafar found him. Another wizard.) |
Poor Gilbert Gottfried. He didn't have a chance. as in reference, "When Chaos comes a calling" yes he is also is a magical being because he knows of a reclining chair that vibrates. |
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| Jafaria |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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He's also a species of parrot that doesn't live in the Middle East or even Africa. The "science experiment" reasoning sounds more plausible every day.
Or magic experiment. Maybe he was a person that was so annoying, a wizard turned him into a bird. (Not Jafar, since he seems to have already been a parrot when Jafar found him. Another wizard.) |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Calluna wrote: |
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| And the very idea of eating berries and nuts is below him. I guess I wouldn't either if I eating baklava and soups every day |
He's also got teeth, binocular vision, and the wrong number of toes. Iago's a weird parrot.
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That's probably why Jafar bought him. He's a science experiment gone wrong, so he's special |
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| Calluna |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Mariposa79 wrote: |
| Where did you get the fact that Iago binocular vision and wrong number of toes? |
If you look at a picture of a real life parrot their eyes are on the sides of their heads; most herbivores have that so they can watch for predators. Iago's eyes are on the front of his face, like a human's. Real parrots have two toes pointing forward and two backwards, while Iago only has one pointing backwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot#Morphology
I've been an Iago fan for a long time, so I wrote some papers about parrots back in middle school and know this stuff off the top of my head. |
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| Mariposa79 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Calluna wrote: |
| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| And the very idea of eating berries and nuts is below him. I guess I wouldn't either if I eating baklava and soups every day |
He's also got teeth, binocular vision, and the wrong number of toes. Iago's a weird parrot.
As to the original question, both parrots and chickens aren't the same species, they're two species in the same class. Humans are in the same class as all other mammals, so it's really no weirder than you or I eating a cow or a pig. But I do admit it looks creepy to see him eating a drumstick.
But, then, parrots in real life don't eat any kind of meat, so it's wrong in a different way.  |
Where did you get the fact that Iago binocular vision and wrong number of toes?
lol you noticed too how creepy Iago eats a drumstick. |
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| Calluna |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| And the very idea of eating berries and nuts is below him. I guess I wouldn't either if I eating baklava and soups every day |
He's also got teeth, binocular vision, and the wrong number of toes. Iago's a weird parrot.
As to the original question, both parrots and chickens aren't the same species, they're two species in the same class. Humans are in the same class as all other mammals, so it's really no weirder than you or I eating a cow or a pig. But I do admit it looks creepy to see him eating a drumstick.
But, then, parrots in real life don't eat any kind of meat, so it's wrong in a different way. |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| And the very idea of eating berries and nuts is below him. I guess I wouldn't either if I eating baklava and soups every day |
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| Mariposa79 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Cassim : Polly want a -
Iago- say "cracker" and I will put you on principal! |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Iago also isn't your typical bird that eats typical bird food either |
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| Mariposa79 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Birds who eat birds like a hawk. Its like eating your own kind of species. So in your plee for Iago it was an involuntary action without thinking kind of thing. lol |
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