Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
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Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
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Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#2I'm glad the parrots are helping researchers understand tablet games.
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#3My pet Mitred Conure (Leonard) loves to mess with my iPad while I'm reading. On the other had, Leonard >hates< my iPhone. If he's on my shoulder he'll engage in a agressive display waving around and violently biting my shirt. If the phone is close enough to him he will attack the phone. I'm an extremely light phone user so its not like I ignore him when using the phone, but I do expect it is the size makes it competition for his bonding with me.
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#4My pet Mitred Conure (Leonard) loves to mess with my iPad while I'm reading. On the other had, Leonard >hates< my iPhone. If he's on my shoulder he'll engage in a agressive display waving around and violently biting my shirt. If the phone is close enough to him he will attack the phone. I'm an extremely light phone user so its not like I ignore him when using the phone, but I do expect it is the size makes it competi…
Sounds like we could all be better off having Leonard around!
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#5Made me think of this video where a parrot is watching YouTube videos it likes, changing to different ones, and seeming angry when ads (or the owner lol) interrupt its video-watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#6My pet Mitred Conure (Leonard) loves to mess with my iPad while I'm reading. On the other had, Leonard >hates< my iPhone. If he's on my shoulder he'll engage in a agressive display waving around and violently biting my shirt. If the phone is close enough to him he will attack the phone. I'm an extremely light phone user so its not like I ignore him when using the phone, but I do expect it is the size makes it competi…
I have a family member with a cockatoo (goffin) and it's generally afraid when someone has a phone in their hand. Pretty strange, we haven't figured out exactly what the issue is. Placing the phone down on a table to play some music seems fine, but it seems like once the phone is in someone's hands and moving around, maybe it resembles some kind of predator?? No clue!
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#7It feels like increasingly, we're finding that humans are not quite as "uniquely intelligent" as we thought.
Don't get me wrong, humans are still the smartest animal on earth obviously, but it does seem like we greatly underestimated the intelligence of a lot of others. Birds like parrots and crows in particular continue to impress me when I see them solving increasingly elaborate puzzles, and figuring out how to open windows and the like.
Also I just think parrots are cute.
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Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#9Made me think of this video where a parrot is watching YouTube videos it likes, changing to different ones, and seeming angry when ads (or the owner lol) interrupt its video-watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4
Actually much more impressive than the research videos, he clearly knows his way around youtube
Re: Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
#10"Seventeen completed the study; three dropped out after showing slight signs of aggression or a lack of interest during the training period. "
Avian rage-quitting? So it's not just humans... I feel better now.