Why didn't Blu learn to speak human?
- Birds can pronounce human words so he can't use being anatomically different as an excuse.
- They can pronounce them, but they don't understand them (with extremely rare exceptions like certain African Greys). They just treat human words like odd-sounding flock calls. That Blu can't understand human talk is actually a bit of Fridge Brilliance. Besides all that - Blu and Linda understand each other just fine, human talk or none.
- But doesn't Blu understand the humans when the speak?
- For the sake of the plot, yes, in a way, but he'd understand Linda the best.
Why didn't Tulio threaten Linda with legal action in order to get Blu?
- It's understandable why he wouldn't want to, being a nice guy and all, but it can't be legal for Linda to own such a rare bird. Plus, you would think she would need some sort of license to own Blu, which, given that Blu literally fell off a truck she probably doesn't have.
- You answered your own question - It would be out-of-character for him to do so.
- There's also a huge pile of practical and ethical problems with taking birds that bond tightly to their owners (like macaws) and throwing them bodily into unknown situations - the stress alone can kill them. Blu was raised by Linda from hatchlinghood. He'd have to be gradually acclimated to free-living, which actually happens over the course of the movie.
- The above, and he'd lose if he'd were to try it, which is why such the scenario don't usually happen IRL. It's a can of fire ants open but the main gist of it is that 1) Linda didn't know of any international conservation laws, 2) a lot of your exotics (birds, fish, arthropods, reptiles, amphibians, etc) didn't get conservation protections for their species until after they've been in the pet trade for some time, so thus those laws are harder to enforce, 3), a lot of your international conservation laws mostly apply to trade, not ownership, and 4) he's an ornithologist, yes, but he's not a part of a governing body with the authority to invoke any conservation laws. In short, he'd have a lot stacked against him legally.
Why did Tulio fly all the way to Minnesota to ask Linda if she was willing to breed Blu?
- Wouldn't it have been easier to just shoot her an email?
- Maybe he wants to see the bird in person? In order for the breeding to work, he obviously has to make sure Blu is of the same species, and being such a Nice Guy (and a bit of a bird fanatic, as is shown), he probably sees it as more appropriate for him to fly to Minnesota in order to identify him completely, rather than have Linda spend a lot of her time and patience flying to Brazil to meet him, only to find out that Blu wasn't the kind of bird they were looking for.
- Some earlier storyboards and in the junior novel does state he managed to find Blu through Linda uploading videos with him in it likely managing to identify him and then travel on out to Minnesota to see Blu in person afterwards.
How did Linda keep Blu for 15 years without anyone telling her what species he is and/or contacting her about it?
- You couldn't possibly say they've never been to a vet before and Tulio claimed he was in peak condition.
- Maybe she only took him to a small-town vet who wasn't aware that he was one of the last members of an endangered species.
- A small-town vet is less likely to have the know-how to deal with exotic pets like Blu. At the very least he'd have to do some googling which would have revealed that fact.
- First off, it's doubtful a veterinarian would resort to Google to figure out how to do their job. Second, even if they did, and came upon the result of "extremely rare, possibly extinct or down-to-one-known-specimen bird species", the likeliest assumption would be that Blu has been misidentified and that can't be the type of bird that he is, because how would some small-town girl living in the Midwest get her hands on such a bird?
- Not too doubtful, since medics for humans do Google or otherwise look up things if need be. That said, some of Blu is a case of Informed Species. They say he's a Spix (which, IRL, are more grayish blue around the head) but he looks more like a hyacinth macaw (which are similar to Blu, color-wise).
- Maybe she only took him to a small-town vet who wasn't aware that he was one of the last members of an endangered species.
Password
- Linda's computer's password is improbable. Blu taps "down" from the directional keys, some from the F-line and probably the "Pause/Break" or "Print Screen" key.
What does "laya" mean?
The word Jewel chants during "Hot Wings". Is it an actual word in a foreign language, or just a nonsense word?- It comes from the Tagalog word meaning "freedom" which is meaningful to herself as a character.
