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Wild cockatoos make their own cutlery sets
- okl 5y agoRelated Wikipedia articles: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals#In_birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals#In_birds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence#Tool_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence#Tool_use
- tedunangst 5y agoSeems like a lot of supposition for some birds did a thing, but most of them did not.
- caconym_ 5y agoThis actually makes the behavior more interesting, since it strongly implies it's a learned thing rather than a fixed action pattern or similar.
- theonlybutlet 5y agoMuch like most humans, I guess the supposition is in what you suppose intelligence is...
- bobbytit 5y agoI never saw any tools being used in the video. Sus
- ehnto 5y agoPerhaps this video might show it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmQoHX5k20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmQoHX5k20 Regardless, it's not the first instance of birds using tools, and cockatoos are known for being quite intelligent. We rescued a galah here in Australia (Stephen Squawking) and while he's only young, he's used things to get at other things, unlocked his cage and knows a bunch of words, some games (like peakaboo) and call and response sequences. All that to say, birds can be pretty smart, so the article isn't super surprising.
- bobbytit 5y agoI don't doubt for a second how smart they are. I am Australian.
- bayesian_horse 5y agoI'll be impressed when they write their own Lisp interpreters.
- ehnto 5y agoIt would quietly drop your code, then play a screeching noise at 130db.
- dylan604 5y agoSounds like some of my BASIC programming when I was 12 and screwed up the DATA lines.
- rolph 5y agoscreeching 130 db, and maybe about 64kbaud
- speed_spread 5y agoTerminal bombs were a thing back in high school. We would pass the diskette around and load the program on every PC in the lab, enter RUN and press <Enter> just as the bell rang. The BASIC program was pretty simple: 1) An empty loop that took long enough to complete to allow us to exit the room, leaving the CS teacher alone in the lab 2) A forever loop that beeped a random frequency and cleared the screen to a random color as fast as possible. 3) A discombobulated CS teacher running around the lab to stop the madness.
- pjmlp 5y agoSending unwanted images to other XServers across the computer lab was also quite fun. So much that my login script disabled remote access to my X session, just in case.
- amatecha 5y agoRelated, a clip of a Goffin cockatoo making a similar tool three different times, out of different material[0]. These pesky lil' birds are very intelligent/clever. I know someone who has one and it has pretty complex social behaviour, and easily breaks out of its cage -- it taught itself how to manipulate the mechanisms to open both cage doors. The owners just leave the door open now, haha .. The bird also alerted the family (by squawking nonstop until someone came) when an elderly family member fell over. I can definitely understand comparing these birds to 3-yr-old humans. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQpqtbxplQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQpqtbxplQ