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Apparently Eggs. Also the research shows that they enjoy the noise of setting off the trap. They also throw things off cliffs just to hear them hit the bottom.
by disordinary 7y ago
Apparently Eggs. Also the research shows that they enjoy the noise of setting off the trap. They also throw things off cliffs just to hear them hit the bottom.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/extraordinary-intellect-of-kea-discovered-as-they-invent-tools-to-probe-traps.html https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/extraordi...
- tapland 7y agoA lot of parrots seem to do this. A very simple game of action > weird reaction (fun sound). Parrots use their loose feathers as sticks, ripping them off and cleaning out the inside of their beaks.
- philwelch 7y agoParrots are fucking smart, man. You have to be smart to do weird useless shit to amuse yourself.
- Double_a_92 7y agoMan, have I got a video for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXiAe7Oc-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXiAe7Oc-I (It's a crow sledding)
- philwelch 7y agoOh god. Crows and octopodes are my shortlist of who will succeed humanity as the sapient Terran species. Crows probably first; octopodes are smarter, but crows have culture and that’s more important than intelligence because it provides another axis of Darwinian evolution.
- duncanawoods 7y agoSounds like cat behaviour to instinctively sweep all the items of a table / shelf and watch with interest as they fall. My theory is that it seems too hardwired to be a "fun game" and instead a selected trait because "things knocked off a great height become more edible" e.g. eggs etc.