A voice is heard
Jun. 18th, 2005 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscA few months back, we acquired, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curlygrrrl, three Australian birds (or, at least, stuffed representations of same): a galah (Prentice), a rainbow lorikeet (Llewellyn), and a kookaburra (Chesterfield). Each contained a mechanism that, when squeezed appropriately, produced the bird's call.
Except that Chesterfield's voice didn't work.
Well, that's OK -- these are delicate mechanisms, as we know. Many years ago we were given a lion (Agamemnon) with a builtin roar, but after a few years he lost his voice -- then briefly found it again, rather faintly, and lost it again.
The other morning I rolled over more or less on top of Agamemnon (shut up,bratman) and, lo and behold, he roared, albeit again rather faintly. This made me curious, so when I came into the computer room (where the birds are currently hanging out) later on, I gave Chesterfield an experimental squeeze, and avian laughter rang out. I don't know whether to credit the peculiar weather or just the eventual wearing off of a natural shyness, but we now have a kookaburra with a voice.
This is something of a mixed blessing, as anyone who has ever heard a kookaburra will tell you.
curlygrrrl, three Australian birds (or, at least, stuffed representations of same): a galah (Prentice), a rainbow lorikeet (Llewellyn), and a kookaburra (Chesterfield). Each contained a mechanism that, when squeezed appropriately, produced the bird's call.Except that Chesterfield's voice didn't work.
Well, that's OK -- these are delicate mechanisms, as we know. Many years ago we were given a lion (Agamemnon) with a builtin roar, but after a few years he lost his voice -- then briefly found it again, rather faintly, and lost it again.
The other morning I rolled over more or less on top of Agamemnon (shut up,
bratman) and, lo and behold, he roared, albeit again rather faintly. This made me curious, so when I came into the computer room (where the birds are currently hanging out) later on, I gave Chesterfield an experimental squeeze, and avian laughter rang out. I don't know whether to credit the peculiar weather or just the eventual wearing off of a natural shyness, but we now have a kookaburra with a voice.This is something of a mixed blessing, as anyone who has ever heard a kookaburra will tell you.
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Date: 2005-06-19 02:40 am (UTC)I suspect Chesterfield's voice box may have been squished closed when he was crushed in with so many other birds in my luggage, and that your weather has indeed enabled it to fill with air again.
Real Kookas are much louder.
I'm glad to hear he is well again!
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Date: 2005-06-19 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-19 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-20 01:53 am (UTC)Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra: gay your life must be!"
If only I'd known when I was four how gay my life would turn out to be.