Parrots are incredible birds, which is a good reason to never have one for a pet. They live up to eighty years and are among the smartest of birds right up there with the Corvids (ravens, crows, magpies and jays).
Having a pet parrot is like living with an intelligent and noisy six or seven-year-old child for seven or eight decades. This is a commitment few of us humans are ready to make.
In addition, parrots are social birds who crave companionship and enrichment. Lacking others of their kind, pet parrots often bond with one person in a household. If that person leaves, feathers may fly. The abandoned bird will pluck out their own feathers in dismay.
A researcher from the University of Glasgow recently teamed up with two others at Northeastern University in Boston in a most unusual study. They took eighteen pet parrots and tried to discover if video calls with other parrots could help fulfill the birds’ social needs.
Here’s how the experiment worked. If a parrot rang a bell, a tablet was brought out and images of one or two parrots would appear on a screen. The parrot could use its beak or tongue to point to its favored bird for a video chat.
See for yourself the delightful results of this study. Click here
Super Cute.
Just goes to prove that birds do not deserve the insult “bird brains”.
Smart bird, too!
Pretty bird . . .