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Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

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Post by kwhitefoot »

Culonavirus wrote: post #42
Loughla wrote: post #25

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I don't know if that is sarcastic, but it is legitimately impressive to me. That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. It's sort of astonishing to think about. From both the fact that the parrot can figure it out, and that the function and use of youtube is so intuitive to users that a parrot can learn it.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

The bigger problem is that parrots are very social and need a lot of interaction with you throughout their lives not just until they are teens.

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Post by AnarchismIsCool »

Culonavirus wrote: post #42
Loughla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if that is sarcastic, but it is legitimately impressive to me. That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. It's sort of astonishing to think about. From both the fact that the parrot can figure it out, and that the function and use of youtube is so intuitive to users that a parrot can learn it.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

They're very cute but they're awful pets. Please everyone, don't get one because you thought the video was cute. They need a massive amount of your time otherwise they become horny monsters that shred your life.

Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

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Post by I_Am_Nous »

ethbr1 wrote: post #29
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #19

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Birds totally experience rage at inanimate objects like humans. If an objects get in their way or doesn't behave the way they want for long enough, they'll start smacking it. Vicious and intelligent things.

To parrot the above, if you've never seen a goose in Florida get pissed off at a parked car bumper, you haven't lived. They're hilariously persistent in their anger.

I don't know what it is about geese but they seem like they are total jerks most of the time. Maybe just because they are one of the more common large wild animals humans can interact with and film and the geese make it clear they want to be left alone.

Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

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Post by outworlder »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #53
Culonavirus wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

They're very cute but they're awful pets. Please everyone, don't get one because you thought the video was cute. They need a massive amount of your time otherwise they become horny monsters that shred your life.

Generally true, although some species need way more attention than others. And 'way more' can often mean full time attention whenever they aren't sleeping.

I had an Amazon parrot that needed less attention than an African Gray or a Cockatoo.

I'd still not recommend as a pet given that their lifespans are so long. It's a decades long commitment and they may even outlast you, in which case you need to figure out what's going to happen to them.

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Post by drewcoo »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #53
Culonavirus wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

They're very cute but they're awful pets. Please everyone, don't get one because you thought the video was cute. They need a massive amount of your time otherwise they become horny monsters that shred your life.

Are you talking about the parrots?

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Post by MichaelZuo »

crooked-v wrote: post #39
cracoucax wrote: post #9

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Actually much more impressive than the research videos, he clearly knows his way around youtube

And on top of that, can obviously recognize parrots in the video thumbnails.

It’s incredible that a 90 second video of someone with a pet parrot and an iPad is more illuminating then the average paper…

Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

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Post by bigcoke »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #53
Culonavirus wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

They're very cute but they're awful pets. Please everyone, don't get one because you thought the video was cute. They need a massive amount of your time otherwise they become horny monsters that shred your life.

as a parrot owner (blue fronted amazon), that's true, it's like having a child, like, really, it's not hyperbolic unlike dog/cat owners.

Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

Culonavirus wrote: post #42
Loughla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if that is sarcastic, but it is legitimately impressive to me. That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. It's sort of astonishing to think about. From both the fact that the parrot can figure it out, and that the function and use of youtube is so intuitive to users that a parrot can learn it.

> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube. I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

It's a hyperactive 4-5 year old, with scissors for a face, that never matures. I love having parrots, but they're not at all for everyone, and in many ways make terrible pets.
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