Mystery Parrots
Cities breed strange and often legendary animals. New York has its sewers, rife with mole people, rodents of unusual size and lost alligators. Los Angeles (so far) has less of a subterranean population. We have timid deer, brazen coyotes, rattle snakes, all interesting, but none really have the same flair as say, mole people. But look a little deeper and you'll discover parrots. In the Hollywood Hills, there are flocks of wild parrots eeking out their living in the exotic trees of people back yards, exploding, when startled, into a riot of color. No one knows where they really came from, but there are a number of stories -- from the menagerie of some rich recluse, a burned down pet store in Glendale or just people's pets that escaped. Perhaps (as we're sad to report often happens in the hills) they were unwanted pets, abandoned by owners, who, cruelly, think it's more humane to subject their once beloved animals to heartbrak, starvation and coyotes rather than take them to the pound. (Something of a digression, we know, but there's little that makes us as mad as people who abandon pets!)
The parrots have faired better than most (we imagine flying helps) and have taken up their chatty residence, as yet another marvel in one of LA's most storied neighborhoods.
posted by kuaptic. @ 8:12 AM
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