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> Last year, the team showed a group of parrots how to video call one another, finding that the birds both overwhelmingly enjoyed the activity and could make th
by Lalabadie 3y ago
> Last year, the team showed a group of parrots how to video call one another, finding that the birds both overwhelmingly enjoyed the activity and could make the calls themselves, when given the option.
My heart! There's a separate article dedicated to it: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-vid...
- KennyBlanken 3y agoAnd they had preferred friends! It's truly awesome because their owners could help improve their quality of life with just a cheap tablet and the service fee.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoTheir owners could improve their quality of life by simply not keeping them Parrots are too smart and too social to be kept in captivity
- esaym 3y ago[flagged]
- lm28469 3y agoYeah these comments feel so out of touch, kind of a metaphors for what we became with modern tech. We're creating tools and distractions to cope from how unbearable we made our daily lives, and apparently it's progress
- fragmede 3y agoI'm free to log off this website and the rest of the Internet at any time! Harrumph.
- xandrius 3y agoBasically enslaved in a prison but with a tablet.
- isolli 3y agoIt reminded me of a documentary I saw long ago on ape communication (between themselves as well as with humans), and I found that Wikipedia has a rich article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
- micquigley0318 3y agoThere's also this longer-form article about the parrots learning how to read, request music, etc.: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-parrot-reading/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
- fy20 3y agoYC S24: Tinder for Parrots