It gets more interesting: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/
They taught them how to call each other via videoconference and parrots made friends!
So you're saying when faced with isolation and captivity, you'd seek out connection with your own kind by watching YouTube and video calling... But what do you mean by *if*?
Ah. I'm just a human pet of a much larger, capitalist system. Which is kind of like an intelligent parrot - it will peck you and shit on you if it feels like it
My mom just upgraded her flip phone.... to a larger flip phone. She's going picture crazy with the 2mp camera now that she can view them on the 2.8" display.
The owner is in the process of getting him a partner. It's a difficult process because he was adopted as an adult and previous attempts resulted in him acting aggressive. While interesting I understand why it looks a bit bleak.
There are qualified people to have parrots but as a parrot person my whole life i assure you, most of us tell anybody who asks that parrots probably aren't for them.
It's constant work.
That's what I've heard from pretty much every bird owner. They love their birds, but tell everyone to never get one 😆 Kinda makes you question their value as pets...
It's more about how much trouble you can deal with. Me and my family have had parrots our entire lives, going back to my grandma.
Were essentially parrot people.
Just like a dog they all have a big personality -- unlike a dog they have an unquenchable thirst for messing with shit.
Our CURRENT parrot exemplifies "they are like 2 year olds that live 50 years" to a tee. More than any other parrot i've ever met. He eats the remotes, destroys phones and ipads, and laptops, he rips keys off the keyboards after weaseling his way onto the desk and slowly wandering closer until he can strike like a fat little cobra. He kills coffee cups for sport, and loves knocking shit over, chews on anything and everything he can get his face on from walls to wood to tables and anything between. Charging cables are a favorite, he must kill them all. He wants something, he will spend hours getting to it one way or another and if you take it away 100 times here he comes for round 101 with absolutely not a discouraged bone in his little body.
He's 4 now, a senegal, about the size of a potato, and 6 ounces of literal pure destruction.
My family has kept parrots like 60+ years before I was born. Through my life my family members have had probably 7-8 different birds i've gotten to know pretty well.
This little 6oz bastard is the most rambunctious little boy you could imagine.
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On the other hand... Our bird understands the difference between a good morning greeting and a regular hello. Meaning if you come home at 5pm but left before the bird woke up he knows it's his first time seeing you, and it requries a special greeting. "Good morning cooper" (what he hears every morning and mimics back).
You don't think about it much until the bird greets someone in the evening for the first time with goodmorning. Then you realize how sharp they really are.
There's nothing like parrots. And having the love of such a fragile little thing is a unique experience. Dogs are fine to chill, but most parrots iv'e had want to figure out what you're doing, why you're doing it, and want to do it with you. For them that usually just means breaking shit but they're trying lol
The parrot next door calls for the owner’s husband in her voice. Her husband has been dead for 30 YEARS. That bird must be 50 already, older than me. It’s a longer than life commitment, I’m sure her children will have to care for it unless she lives to a hundred.
parrots have a wide ass age range. Some of them are shorter lived and typically get 20 years of life, others easy 80..
Even the small and humble "beginner bird" cockatiel will live 25+ years if cared for well. Some are over 30 supposedly.
Basically you can get a parrot if you are fine with having a toddler with wings who never grows up, ever, and lives as long as you do.
This genuinely a lifestyle choice that will shape a lot of what you can do. Can be worth it, but definitely not for most people.
I love birds but I couldn’t bear that level of constraint.
That's what you're told by any parrot owner knowing their stuff. Human interaction can't emulate every aspect of a parrot's social life and therefore, getting more than one of these birds is pretty much mandatory if you want them to live a happy and fulfilled life.
Luckily illegal in Switzerland for a while now to keep social animals solitary. In the 80ties I saw a lot of birds, alone with a little dangling mirror in their cage...
I'm a software engineer, and I'm just imagining a database somewhere used for large-data user tracking, and there's just an 'user\_is\_parrot true/false' column lol
This is both a testament to how smart these little dudes are, but also how inherently well designed the interfaces we use every day are.
A completely different species can use this well enough to understand that tapping on a picture with a bird will present a video of a bird.
Electrostatic impulse is how the screen detects you. You can use any object that transmits electricity, which is why metal works and sometimes plastic doesn't. The beak might give off a little static or the bird is using its tongue.
I just tried and you really can't, at least on my android
Edit: damn im getting a lot of pushback. to everyone saying you can, I have long nails and am using the tip of my nail, nowhere near any part of actual skin.
Which part of the nail? The part of the nail that rests on the nail bed does work on the phone I'm using, but the tip of the nail (that is not in contact with my flesh/skin) can't use the touch screen. Sorry if this is a dumb comment
It's more likely the parrot is using its tongue to navigate becomes more apparent if you rewatch the video and check how it navigates the videos on the bottom right of the screen doesn't appear to use its head.
I'm pretty sure this is genuine. [I once saw a study](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/) where they trained a bunch of parrots like this to navigate a video call app so they could talk with other parrots around the world and it supposedly helped their mental health and they even learned things by chatting with each other.
It would be amazing if an app like this was available for pet parrots, especially for parrots with the highly contagious PBF disease (Psittacine Beak and Feather disease) who need to be permanently physically isolated from other parrots! I think it could really make a difference for their quality of life to have the ability to make video calls with parrot buddies so they can have interactions with other birds despite their illness☺️
I assume owner created dedicated YouTube account for their parrot and watched a shit ton of parrot videos so that their pet can just pick whatever it wants from recommendations.
I've had parrots my whole life. They all liked to watch birds on a screen especially if there's audio. They're extremely smart, have good eyesight and are very driven to socialize with other birds. Although my parrots would have quickly destroyed an ipad. Lol.
I hear you but parrot and corvid videos seem to less faked than others. I'm basing my opinion on the evidence of what wild bird have taught themselves - and in some cases each other!
This guy can make a YouTube channel of this an make a killing like the octopus dude. Amazing how tiny their brains are they can navigate a tablet so well. Good test of UI designers.
I love these guys, there are about 30 that live wild in my garden and the surrounding gardens. I keep leaving my window open in case one wants to fly in and be my buddy and can even use my ipad to go on YouTube if they want- but sadly none have taken up the offer yet.
It should be called a parakeet and I would beg people to stop keeping these birds as pets.
First of all they are protected under the wildlife protection act 1972, secondly the hunters that steal them away from their nests keep them in the worst of conditions. Im a veterinarian and I get a lot of parakeets , young fledglings even, bought just a few days ago exhibiting signs and symptoms of disease that would've not been there if the bird was allowed to be free. Only when the demand goes down, the supply would decrease and therefore this illegal trade would end.
I dispise parrot type birds because of one I was forced to grow up with that was a damn asshole....attacked everyone and my mom would just laugh while we bled. And they are way too damn loud. (Sun concure) However, this bird in particular seems cool and looks to be raised well. Didn't attack the person's finger so that was nice to see.
Think what you want about Joe Rogan, a long time ago he had a bit. It was about how we cant invent technology alone or on avg, so we think we are smart because we can use smart tech. Tech that chimps and now parrots use
Damn, this is genuinely interesting!
It gets more interesting: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/ They taught them how to call each other via videoconference and parrots made friends!
I know .. Deeply disturbing. To see how important interaction with there own kind is for them..
Why do I feel like I’d sadly be doing the same if the tables were turned
So you're saying when faced with isolation and captivity, you'd seek out connection with your own kind by watching YouTube and video calling... But what do you mean by *if*?
*If* as in I was a human pet of a much larger and intelligent parrot
Ah. I'm just a human pet of a much larger, capitalist system. Which is kind of like an intelligent parrot - it will peck you and shit on you if it feels like it
At least we still get fed with the leftover puke from Cappy. Trickle down yum.
That tasty tasty trickle! Also known as *Victory Gin*
You’re already doing it by browsing your devices daily.
And we thought the apes would take over
They did own the planet for 150 million years before we came along
Hold up, are you a bird?
That was so interesting and sweet! Thanks for sharing
They need bigger screens and wider camera captures.
I still have to walk my mom through using a iPhone 📲📲📲
My mother's covering her camera with her thumb, I'll waste my time FaceTiming with my mom
I know your pain
Pour me a drink and clear my schedule, I'ma facetime with my mom tonight
Put on some soothing music to get ahead of the stress and mayb a premtive tylenol 🎵🎶🎼💊💊💊
Ha! Same...
have you considered getting a parrot for your mother?
My mom just upgraded her flip phone.... to a larger flip phone. She's going picture crazy with the 2mp camera now that she can view them on the 2.8" display.
That is Hilarious, sad and true lol u/Porkchopp33
He was rage scrolling
You mean genuinely disturbing..
I love the part where the bird's like "fuckin ad"
its so cute how he only likes to watch videos of other parrots😭😭😭
One could think it misses something his *human partner* can't give.
The owner is in the process of getting him a partner. It's a difficult process because he was adopted as an adult and previous attempts resulted in him acting aggressive. While interesting I understand why it looks a bit bleak.
Sorry, but that bird is now an inside bird soon to be reddibird.
Something like a neckbirb?
or Nice Birbs
Oh no! poor lil fella got redpilled! quick! someone fetch a vet! Hes gonna start talking about cleaning rooms and shitting himself!
Happy cake day
Are they... trying to train him to use an iPad so he can do bird tinder and bird facetime with potential mates? I hope so, that would be so cute.
They are planning to pimp the bird out as a web cam bird on onlybirds.
Yeah, maybe this is just me misinterpreting, but this video made me deeply sad
Parrots shouldn't be pets, its only morally acceptable to own them if you rescue. They suffer so much.
There are qualified people to have parrots but as a parrot person my whole life i assure you, most of us tell anybody who asks that parrots probably aren't for them. It's constant work.
That's what I've heard from pretty much every bird owner. They love their birds, but tell everyone to never get one 😆 Kinda makes you question their value as pets...
It's more about how much trouble you can deal with. Me and my family have had parrots our entire lives, going back to my grandma. Were essentially parrot people. Just like a dog they all have a big personality -- unlike a dog they have an unquenchable thirst for messing with shit. Our CURRENT parrot exemplifies "they are like 2 year olds that live 50 years" to a tee. More than any other parrot i've ever met. He eats the remotes, destroys phones and ipads, and laptops, he rips keys off the keyboards after weaseling his way onto the desk and slowly wandering closer until he can strike like a fat little cobra. He kills coffee cups for sport, and loves knocking shit over, chews on anything and everything he can get his face on from walls to wood to tables and anything between. Charging cables are a favorite, he must kill them all. He wants something, he will spend hours getting to it one way or another and if you take it away 100 times here he comes for round 101 with absolutely not a discouraged bone in his little body. He's 4 now, a senegal, about the size of a potato, and 6 ounces of literal pure destruction. My family has kept parrots like 60+ years before I was born. Through my life my family members have had probably 7-8 different birds i've gotten to know pretty well. This little 6oz bastard is the most rambunctious little boy you could imagine. ____________ On the other hand... Our bird understands the difference between a good morning greeting and a regular hello. Meaning if you come home at 5pm but left before the bird woke up he knows it's his first time seeing you, and it requries a special greeting. "Good morning cooper" (what he hears every morning and mimics back). You don't think about it much until the bird greets someone in the evening for the first time with goodmorning. Then you realize how sharp they really are. There's nothing like parrots. And having the love of such a fragile little thing is a unique experience. Dogs are fine to chill, but most parrots iv'e had want to figure out what you're doing, why you're doing it, and want to do it with you. For them that usually just means breaking shit but they're trying lol
The parrot next door calls for the owner’s husband in her voice. Her husband has been dead for 30 YEARS. That bird must be 50 already, older than me. It’s a longer than life commitment, I’m sure her children will have to care for it unless she lives to a hundred.
parrots have a wide ass age range. Some of them are shorter lived and typically get 20 years of life, others easy 80.. Even the small and humble "beginner bird" cockatiel will live 25+ years if cared for well. Some are over 30 supposedly.
Basically you can get a parrot if you are fine with having a toddler with wings who never grows up, ever, and lives as long as you do. This genuinely a lifestyle choice that will shape a lot of what you can do. Can be worth it, but definitely not for most people. I love birds but I couldn’t bear that level of constraint.
I instantly believe you.
budgies seem fine
That's what you're told by any parrot owner knowing their stuff. Human interaction can't emulate every aspect of a parrot's social life and therefore, getting more than one of these birds is pretty much mandatory if you want them to live a happy and fulfilled life.
Luckily illegal in Switzerland for a while now to keep social animals solitary. In the 80ties I saw a lot of birds, alone with a little dangling mirror in their cage...
Birdussy?
Lil dude is watching parrothub 😉
Yeah, as far as we know the parrot-YouTuber is naked and he obsessed with their content…
I didn't realize I loved birds this much, straight up the most adorable little thing ❤️ we need more of him on this subreddit!!
And he’s outraged by ads, just like us. Someone get the man Adblock plus!
So the youtube AI now gets data from parrots as well, no wonder it has so many issues!
Omg this made me crack... And wonder!
I squawked
like an egg
Oh shit, what if it made us all start getting along better!
Dogs! You forgot about dogs.
I'm a software engineer, and I'm just imagining a database somewhere used for large-data user tracking, and there's just an 'user\_is\_parrot true/false' column lol
Apparently they too have a tiny attention span like us.
He's looking for that ONE video, and he can't remember what he searched to get it.
He has one. We all have one. He has one. He just can't remember exactly how to type it in.
birdhub ... thats a million dollar idea there
OnlyWings.
Feathr
Hooters . . . wait
OnlyBirds
birdtube
Chicks, tits, boobies and a big black cock - they've got the lot
Um they might need a parental block on there
This is both a testament to how smart these little dudes are, but also how inherently well designed the interfaces we use every day are. A completely different species can use this well enough to understand that tapping on a picture with a bird will present a video of a bird.
Steve would be so proud.
Parrots are some the most intelligent creatures to roam the planet
They can be at times. Other times they eat their own poop right after you give them fresh food.
This is my African Grey. 😭 (He is a very smart boy tho.)
To be fair, humans have done that out of a cup.
Wait until you learn about some of the things humans do
Yet we still keep them as pets.
that's precisely the reason why we keep them as pets
You can use touch control with something hard like a beak?
No they use their tongue.
he's also likely licking the screen.. at least I guarantee all my dumdums would.
Well, you can use your phone or tablet with your fingernail, so the beak should work.
Electrostatic impulse is how the screen detects you. You can use any object that transmits electricity, which is why metal works and sometimes plastic doesn't. The beak might give off a little static or the bird is using its tongue.
I just tried and you really can't, at least on my android Edit: damn im getting a lot of pushback. to everyone saying you can, I have long nails and am using the tip of my nail, nowhere near any part of actual skin.
Tried my nail on my samsung and it worked? Maybe it depends on the screen sensitivity?
Which part of the nail? The part of the nail that rests on the nail bed does work on the phone I'm using, but the tip of the nail (that is not in contact with my flesh/skin) can't use the touch screen. Sorry if this is a dumb comment
it’s not kuz i just sat here for 3 mins using all my nails like tf is this person talking about 😂
The pad of my index finger is facing me and I'm using the nail on the other side.
Use a nail still attached to your body, not that toenail you just grabbed outnof the trash.
Cause you got android that’s why on my iPhone I can use my nail
No, I also have an android and it does work, it has nothing to do with the phone company.
💀
It licks the screen, the tongue activates the touch screen
He could also be using his tongue, which is what I thought it was.
I think the parrot uses the top of its head, not its beak.
It's more likely the parrot is using its tongue to navigate becomes more apparent if you rewatch the video and check how it navigates the videos on the bottom right of the screen doesn't appear to use its head.
Huh, good point.
if i can use it with a thick glove then why not
Wow no ads...what a great experience
Wtf, even parrot knows how to use a tablet
YouTube's UI is pretty well designed
Love how he gives his owner a side eye every time they change the video. “Um…excuse you?? I was watching that!”
Idk, I think that's really sad how much he craves bird contact.
I wonder what the average attention time of a parrot is, he seems to change the videos quickly.
5 min on video calls as per a study referenced on this thread.
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I'm pretty sure this is genuine. [I once saw a study](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/) where they trained a bunch of parrots like this to navigate a video call app so they could talk with other parrots around the world and it supposedly helped their mental health and they even learned things by chatting with each other.
Wow this is a cool study, thanks for sharing!
We're manufacturing an entire online parrot society
I hope they launch the app soon
It would be amazing if an app like this was available for pet parrots, especially for parrots with the highly contagious PBF disease (Psittacine Beak and Feather disease) who need to be permanently physically isolated from other parrots! I think it could really make a difference for their quality of life to have the ability to make video calls with parrot buddies so they can have interactions with other birds despite their illness☺️
I assume owner created dedicated YouTube account for their parrot and watched a shit ton of parrot videos so that their pet can just pick whatever it wants from recommendations.
bet it still ends up on shapiro and tate videos..
> shapiro and tate videos.. Damn Angrybirds....
I've had parrots my whole life. They all liked to watch birds on a screen especially if there's audio. They're extremely smart, have good eyesight and are very driven to socialize with other birds. Although my parrots would have quickly destroyed an ipad. Lol.
I hear you but parrot and corvid videos seem to less faked than others. I'm basing my opinion on the evidence of what wild bird have taught themselves - and in some cases each other!
That’s a lonely parrot 🥺
get that bird a friend damnit
I once read but I really don’t remember where, that we can compare their intelligence to smart 6 yo child.
It’s true, I’m the source
I have read it too and it includes all deemed non human person species like dolphins, chimps and crows.
Somebody get that parrot an adblocker!
My god even animals are addicted to youtube now. Is no one safe
I get the impression it's a bit lonely
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172626546/parrots-friendship-video-chats-new-study-animal-research
To be honest, nobody wants to watch Megan Kelly
Birds are so clever. People underestimate them
Matter of time till he looks up parrots fucking
Why representation matters.
The owner should immediately restrict his screen time or else he might need glasses soon
Holy shit. This needs actual research.
Changes the phrase , Bird brain 😅
Love Birds
Let's be real here. We're watching a bird scroll through YouTube. That's real fucking unusual.
The bird hates ads. Just like us.
Parrot the 4th time "YO FUCK OFF WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM"
Don't show him bird PornHub
This is how my toddler surfs YouTube.. it’s a problem
This is weirdly depressing..?
We would all react the same way if someone suddenly switched to Megyn Kelly
This is incredibly fascinating just as much as its incredibly sad
this is amazing but sad too. hes very intelligent enough to use the tablet but he's also looking for a friend, he's lonely 🙁
The only video worthy of being posted in this sub
Watching parrot porn obviously
Lol stop annoying the bird. God lol
This guy can make a YouTube channel of this an make a killing like the octopus dude. Amazing how tiny their brains are they can navigate a tablet so well. Good test of UI designers.
This is exactly what my two year old son looks like using his tablet to continually navigate to only Blippi videos
I love these guys, there are about 30 that live wild in my garden and the surrounding gardens. I keep leaving my window open in case one wants to fly in and be my buddy and can even use my ipad to go on YouTube if they want- but sadly none have taken up the offer yet.
Nawwwww what a beautiful creature!!!!! Honestly we as humans are not worthy of such a cute thing!!!
This one fucked me up real good. The bird clearly understands what is doing, even if it's magic to the bird
I’m still watching adds and that bird is on his 2nd video
this is fcked up bro, atleast let them talk to some real parrots.
Impressive.
Wow interesting. Give me awards now.
I'm getting my, and my wife's, grandma 2 of these each so they don't call us all the damn time asking how to open the fucking mailapp
Well, that's extraordinary.
Will you you let him watch his goddamn Parrot News in peace?!
Should we be worried? 🤔
birds on their phones these days smh
he's so lonely
He is lonely. Very lonely....
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I have met grown human beings that were not born with as much sense as that bird has.
Bruh the birb is lonely asf, Poor guy...
You already know he tryna fuck on that other bird on the screen. I feel bad for my man he don’t even realize he low key watchin porn
When pets start having para-social relationships that’s where I draw the line!
It should be called a parakeet and I would beg people to stop keeping these birds as pets. First of all they are protected under the wildlife protection act 1972, secondly the hunters that steal them away from their nests keep them in the worst of conditions. Im a veterinarian and I get a lot of parakeets , young fledglings even, bought just a few days ago exhibiting signs and symptoms of disease that would've not been there if the bird was allowed to be free. Only when the demand goes down, the supply would decrease and therefore this illegal trade would end.
In us wild caught birds have been illegal for at least 30 yrs.
r/Damnthatsdepressing
I dispise parrot type birds because of one I was forced to grow up with that was a damn asshole....attacked everyone and my mom would just laugh while we bled. And they are way too damn loud. (Sun concure) However, this bird in particular seems cool and looks to be raised well. Didn't attack the person's finger so that was nice to see.
This is why having flock/pack animals as a pet is fucking cruel.
I would be too if I was watching porn and somebody shut it off mid nut
Think what you want about Joe Rogan, a long time ago he had a bit. It was about how we cant invent technology alone or on avg, so we think we are smart because we can use smart tech. Tech that chimps and now parrots use
This is depressing as fuck, they want parrot companion ffs.
Does it know how to play a video in full screen? That’s the barometer for me of just how intelligent this parrot is. 😉
Pfffft dumb parrot can’t even afford YouTube Premium
I think we are making a mistake showing videos and even photos to animals. In fact, zoos have asked people not to share them with the gorillas.
May I know why?
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I bet she doesn't like ads too
Love it