Parrots can get a lot out of video calls with their feathered friends just like we can from Zoom meetings with our favorite humans.
"There are 20 million parrots living in people's homes in the US, and we wanted to explore whether those birds might benefit from video-calling too. If we gave them the opportunity to call other parrots, would they choose to do so, and would the experience benefit the parrots and their caregivers?"around, making them perfect for this study. As well as having vision that's good enough to interpret movements on a screen in front of them, they happen to be very vocal.
Over the next two months, 147 calls were logged in a series of calls described by some of the owners as"transformative".computer scientist Jennifer Cunha, from Northeastern University in Massachusetts."The parrots seemed to grasp that they were truly engaging with other birds on screen and their behavior often mirrored what we would expect from real-life interactions between these types of birds.
Parrots live in large flocks in the wild, but are obviously much more isolated when kept domestically – which isn't helped by various transmissible diseases that makes it unsafe for parrot owners to meet up locally with their birds., which manifest in a variety of ways: they might chew the bars of their cages for example, or pluck their own feathers, or rock excessively on their perches.
While the researchers advise against anyone trying this at home for the time being, without the training and necessary monitoring, there's a lot of promise here based on some of the great stories that came out of the study.
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