Sharon, I have a serious question about Pelicans... Is there any reason a Pelican would want to drink gas???? I know this sounds horribly ridiculous, but I swear to god that we saw a Pelican drink ********ing premixed fuel... My bud was filling up his tanks and it got an air bubble and shot fuel into the water... the freaking Pelican jumped over there and started lapping it up like it was a delicacy... No one believes that story, but it's true....
I suspect the oil slick look may have triggered that response. Usually oil on the water means fish oils and bits, so it may have thought it was going to find fish bits in that water.
Pelicans are a trip man, total trip!!! Funny creatures
They're also a little difficult to handle when you try to nurse a wild pelican back to health. They try to peck your eyes out!
one more... why do little furry creatures like cavy's smell so good??? They even smell cute...
I think it's the hay and something mixed
The hay is part of it, but some animals just smell good. Vegetarian species are often likely to smell good. Lots of parrots smell really good, especially c*ckatoos and amazons. Most co ckatos have a somewhat sweet smell, but Moluccan's are my favorite. They smell like maple syrup. Most Amazons have a somewhat spicy sweet smell.
Parrots so consistently smell good that if they smell wrong, I look for problems, usually with the GI tract, but sometimes it's a metabolic problem. If they keep smelling "off" even when blood work and stool checks are normal, I keep looking until I find out what's wrong, cuz they don't stink for no reason.
There is a group of birds called Pionus parrots (related to Amazons) that are reported to smell either very nice or like dirty sweat socks. In my experience, the "sweat socks" birds have something going on, because often after resolving health problems they smell good. I've had owners tell me their bird never smelled good, always like socks. Then we treated and the bird smelled nice for the first time in it's life.
If you know anybody with a Pionus that smells like socks, tell them this and make them take their bird to a GOOD bird vet - not someone that sees only 1-2 birds a month, somebody that sees a LOT of birds.
How did I get started on a lecture about bird health, anyway?