My aunt is having troble with her pair of boobies?

Question

One is slightly bigger and they allways look like they're jossling for position. Is this normal

She is a 21 year old Ormathologist with little experience

Should she remove the larger one?

she has gave them names, And wonders at what age she should set them free

Answer 1

The bigger one will be the male. They are probably arguing over territory. Are they brown boobies or blue-footed boobies? If they're brown, I would suggest separating them before the male kills the other one.
:)

Answer 2

Does your aunt have a pair of boobies? Where does she keep them in a cage out of doors..sea birds do not normally like to be
penned up?. And yes it is perfectly in order for them to be josslin for position especially the larger one of the two. Male and female I take it.

Answer 3

I think you're being serious (all above posters, there is ACTUALLY a bird called a boobie.

I can't really be of any help if you are being serious (sorry), but if you mean the other type, then surely a topic about that belongs somewhere else....?

EDIT: OK, looks like I'm not the only one who took you seriously. Having looked at the answers, separation might be wise, or spaying - or whatever the equivalent is for rendering birds infertile - one or both of them.

Picture below:

http://www.ecuador-images.net/bird-plata3.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Redfootbooby06.jpg
http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/40/bluefooted-booby_449.jpg

information from Wikipedia below:
The boobies are part of the family Sulidae, a group of seabirds closely related to gannets.

The boobies are large birds with long pointed wings and long bills. They hunt fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. They have facial air sacs under their skin which cushion the impact with the water.

These are colonial breeders on islands and coasts, which normally lay one or more chalky blue eggs on the ground or sometimes in a tree nest. Their name is possibly based on the Spanish slang term bubi, meaning "dunce", as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships where they were easily captured and eaten.

Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned to have been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably Captain Bligh of HMAV Bounty and his loyalists during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his mutineers.

Systematics and evolution
Five of the six extant booby species are in the genus Sula, with the sixth recently given its own genus Papasula, while the three gannets are usually treated in the genus Morus; some authorities consider that all nine species should be considered congeneric, in Sula. However, they are readily told apart according by means of osteology, and the distinct lineages of gannets and boobies are known to have existed in such form for at least 3 million years.

The fossil record of boobies is not as well documented as that of gannets; possible reasons could be that booby species were less numerous in the late Miocene to Pliocene when gannets had their highest diversity, or that due to the more tropical distribution of boobies, many fossil species have simply not been found yet as most localities are in continental North America or Europe.

Genus Papasula

Abbott's Booby Papasula abbotti
Genus Sula

Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii
Peruvian Booby Sula variegata
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
Tasman Booby, Sula (dactylatra) tasmani (possibly extinct[1])
Nazca Booby, Sula granti (formerly S. dactylatra granti)
Red-footed Booby Sula sula
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Sula pygmaea (fossil; Early Miocene of France)
Sula humeralis (fossil; Middle Pliocene)
Sula avita (fossil; formerly believed to be a gannet)
Sula magna (fossil)
Sula sulita (fossil)
Booby chick
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[edit] Footnotes
^ This form poses major problems. Initially, it was described as an extinct species, but it seems nowadays that these individuals merely represent the largest birds of the Tasman Sea Masked Booby which was separated as the subspecies S. dactylatra fullagari. As tasmani had been described first, fullagari becomes a junior synonym if the extinct and the extant birds are considered to belong to the same taxon, which would thus be named S. d. tasmani (fide Holdaway & Anderson, 2001). If one assumes that the differences are not merely related to size, the extinct birds - which are certainly not a distinct species as initially believed - would be named S. d. tasmani (fide van Tets et al., 1988), and the extant subspecies would retain the name fullagari. There is sufficient material for DNA analyses to settle this question.

Answer 4

You really need to work at being more subtle in your attempts at word humor to get a good laugh. Tell your aunt to work with the smaller boobie's diet and enrich it to promote better growth so it will have a better chance in competing with it's bigger rival.

Answer 5

Totally normal. The bigger one will push the smaller one out, but she could try providing each one with a little nest of its own. that way they won't jostle so much.

Answer 6

Unless you're from Tilbury, I don't think it is normal for a nephew to be eyeing up his auntie's love pillows

Answer 7

Tell her to give them each a pets name,,,,, since your in the pets section

Answer 8

lmao what has this to do with pets ! yes its normal for them to jiggle around she is lucky mine dont move there too small!

Answer 9

yep it's normal to have one bigger than the other.

Answer 10

umm