Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
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#2I'd hire him.
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#3Behold the creative powers of boredom!
The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#4Behold the creative powers of boredom! The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)
or in other words necessity is the mother of invention.
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#5Interesting that the other parrot learnt by copying the first parrot, not buy independently coming up with the idea itself.
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#6What I'd be interested in would be the question if he hides his tool or what happens to the tool after he gets the nut. Is there any sort of reuse or does he build a new tool each time.
Would he recognize premade tools, maybe pick the best one from a collection of tools present?
There's also some potential in seeing if birds exibit certain types of economic behaviour. If it would be somewhat tedious to collect two nuts per day and he could live off one, would he save some nuts to build a more complex tool (requireing a day+ of build time) that would allow him to harvest a "free" nut each day etc.
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#7Before it was only the chimps and other apes, and now dolphins, then the parrots ... we have to step up our game people! Next thing you know they are submitting pull requests ...
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#8Behold the creative powers of boredom! The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)
There we are, now uplift isn't as hard as it appeared: just introduce agriculture to a population and wait 10,000 years ;)
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#9Interesting that the other parrot learnt by copying the first parrot, not buy independently coming up with the idea itself.
Interesting, but not very surprising. A very small percentage of people come up with genuinely new ideas. A slightly larger percentage synthesize those ideas into other ideas. About half the remaining can learn those ideas, and the other half stares into the abyss of natural selection.
Re: Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
#10Behold the creative powers of boredom! The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)
Or maybe people spend more time watching captive parrots.