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Maldoror posted:My favorite Alex story, which Pepperberg told on NPR's Fresh Air, went something like this: Alex was ill and had to be taken to the vet, and had to stay overnight. Alex was not happy about staying overnight in a strange place and as Pepperberg was leaving, Alex kept saying "Wanna go home, wanna go home." But Pepperberg obv couldn't take Alex home. Finally, as Pepperberg was near the door, Alex tried one last thing. Thinking that maybe Alex was being forced to stay as punishment for doing something wrong, Alex just said, "I'm sorry." The first time Alex saw an apple he already knew the words for a banana and for a cherry but no one had taught him apple. He asked for the banerry. raton fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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the great deceiver posted:having lived with someone who had a parrot its like having a hyperactive 2 year old with a razor sharp beak that will get freaked out by ghosts and runs around screaming and making GBS threads at least five times a day like a normal 2 year old then
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Ahundredbux posted:like a normal 2 year old then human children don't have beaks
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Moon Potato posted:gently caress. I loved reading about that bird when I was a kid. Great pics GBS could use a bird pics thread
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tardwrangler posted:Great pics
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many johnnys posted:human children don't have beaks sometimes kids will punch or headbutt you in the balls, but getting bit by a beak that can probably work as a can-opener would be worse
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Klyith posted:sometimes kids will punch or headbutt you in the balls, but getting bit by a beak that can probably work as a can-opener would be worse My co-worker's kid was fighting against him getting her dressed in the morning, and she managed to dig her finger BEHIND one of his eyeballs.  Dude had to wear an eyepatch for a while. Then again I bet a parrot could easily remove your entire eyeball with ease if it decided it wanted to.
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I love that screaming bird.
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Fish drives a car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNmL6hSNKw
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doodlebugs posted:Fish drives a car 
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AAA THANK Good thread delivers birds. I'd never want a bird but I do love birds. E: Unfortunately not all birds are good birds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzaYZWDO3A Al Borland fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Raven appreciation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFXU7o0fYII
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:My co-worker's kid was fighting against him getting her dressed in the morning, and she managed to dig her finger BEHIND one of his eyeballs. Is that child a SHAOLIN WARRIOR??
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computer parts posted:Raven appreciation That raven sounds like it has two anime characters stuck inside it lmao
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Four pages and no one posted the parrot singing Drowning Pool? Owner kept the song on repeat all day every day for that bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguXNL93fWg
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loving rules.  doodlebugs posted:Fish drives a car I'll see your fish and raise you a bird.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO2TR_8jXPc
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935 posted:Four pages and no one posted the parrot singing Drowning Pool? Owner kept the song on repeat all day every day for that bird whoa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXKR9EWhXo
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thumbs up for birds
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZmRnAo6s everybooooooody
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Uhhh, just because I can teach a bird to say "what happens when we die?" doesn't mean that the bird is the first nonhuman animal in the world to ponder the afterlife, okay? Like, if you teach a shetland sheepdog to fetch random poo poo from the hall closet, and one day it brings a bandage to a guy who just cut his pinky, it doesn't mean the dog understands first aid.
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maybe it did though makes u think
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Well, you got me there
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Moridin920 posted:I like watching Keas tear cars apart them birds are smart and are troll as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdvRCkCNfo
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Tujague posted:Uhhh, just because I can teach a bird to say "what happens when we die?" doesn't mean that the bird is the first nonhuman animal in the world to ponder the afterlife, okay? Like, if you teach a shetland sheepdog to fetch random poo poo from the hall closet, and one day it brings a bandage to a guy who just cut his pinky, it doesn't mean the dog understands first aid. There are a lot of tests that have proven that some birds do have some interesting cognitive abilities. Some even pass the mirror test. However, I highly doubt a bird was the first non-human animal to ask an inquisitive question when there are loads of primates with a much more deep grasp of language than any bird can brag about. Koko has been asking inquisitive questions and even holding limited conversations with human counterparts for many years now. Her "adopted brother" Michael even recalled the events of him becoming an orphan (his mother was slaughtered for meat by poachers) on a few occasions.
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Yeah hey I wonder if there has ever been any animal intelligence researchers who spent 30 years of their life trying to prove that their pets were smart and then it turned out "no" and that there were lots of other plausible interpretations for what was going on I'll google it
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I think part of the fascination with parrot intelligence is that they ARE so alien to us. Humans can on some level relate to primates because we are primates. Parrots are an entirely different sort of being; little left-over dinosaur things that have shown fairly startling cognitive abilities in some species.
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cassowary is the most dinosaur bird 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0Cn7CBezU Wish it would dropp de bass alreddy
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Thants.
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B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bbbbiiiiiirds
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burds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7f1wOYcLY lookit this loving burd
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That crow is smarter than me. "So what was the middle part?"
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Soft Shell Crab posted:That crow is smarter than me. "So what was the middle part?" This a good crow study: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html quote:Crows and their relatives — among them ravens, magpies and jays — are renowned for their intelligence and for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes. That ability may have to do with cross-species social skills. In the Seattle area, where rapid suburban growth has attracted a thriving crow population, researchers have found that the birds can recognize individual human faces.
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always treat birds with respect except canadian geese, gently caress em all
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