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    • bunnylova123
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         Can bunnies understand birds: warning signals and stuff. When Vienna is outside in the run and there is a loud bird call she’ll sometimes thump and run inside ( nothing happens and we are always on red alert when she looks worried ) or run around doing binkies. Is it just because it’s loud, or does she actually speak bird?


      • Sarita
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          Because they are loud.


        • bunnylova123
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             Oh well, I was hoping I had a bird speaking bunny 


          • Sarita
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              I have a cockatiel that speaks car alarm – mainly he’s just a loud little fellow especially when the clothes washer or dishwasher are going because he can hear it but he can’t see it (not sure he would know if he saw it anyway) and it sends him into squawking fits. My rabbits seem to ignore it though but sometimes Bobby will thump. My husband and I just yell at him – doesn’t work though, he still screeches.


            • Stickerbunny
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                Birds warning calls are often the first line of defense in nature for prey animals, it means a predator is in the neighborhood. Our domestic rabbits don’t have this teaching, since they have never lived in the wild nearby birds, but their instinct is probably still there. In the wild, if a bird goes into loud squawk mode, something is wrong and it means hide. For our domestic birds, it can mean any number of things – I am hungry, I am angry, etc. And when they get used to the birds being noisy, the bunnies don’t seem to react much, except maybe out of annoyance. I have a cockatiel as well, he’s a loud brat and all he does is make Stickers thump in annoyance at times. However, the wild birds warning calls will set off both my rabbits and my bird to being super alert when there is a predator nearby, so some of that instinct is still there.


              • Sarita
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                  That’s good to know Sticker – I know my bird is very hypersensitive – my rabbits just don’t seem to be, but maybe it’s just my rabbits.


                • Stickerbunny
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                    I think our house rabbits probably aren’t that in tune with how to be safe from predators, especially those of us with birds that are loud for no reason. They’ve never had to learn it. One reason it’s so mean to throw them out in the wild, there are a lot of skills they’ve never developed. Mine are pretty good at knowing when there is a dangerous animal in the area, but then, Powder will at times sleep right through all the warnings and not even notice… even if Stickers is running around giving warning thumps.


                  • LittlePuffyTail
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                      We have pheasants that live around our house. Not sure if you guys have any of those near you but they make this horrible loud “Bak Bak” followed by a loud purring type sound. They come around in the morning and Olivia always periscopes when she hears them.


                    • bunnylova123
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                         We have loads of birds, mostly blue tits and robins, next door has a big fruit tree. Vienna isn’t scared of most birds, she likes to chase pigeons 

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