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"animal internet" is no where near as interesting as the idea that pet parrots can recognize the images on a tablet as another parrot that they are interacting
by throwway120385 3y ago
"animal internet" is no where near as interesting as the idea that pet parrots can recognize the images on a tablet as another parrot that they are interacting with in real-time.
- a1369209993 3y agoWhy wouldn't they? Humans can recognize black and white images on a 1960s-era videophone prototype as another human they are interacting with in real-time, and it's not like parrots have any significant difficulty recognizing other parrots in general.
- TomWhitwell 3y ago“Birds don’t see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens—their flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours” https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-parrot-reading/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
- ceejayoz 3y agoPassing the mirror test is pretty rare in the animal world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test). Birds aren't widely good at it. They may have similar challenges in tying a depiction of something to the 3D physical real object.
- rqtwteye 3y agoMust be how their visual system works. My bearded dragon generally didn’t have great eyesight but he would immediately attack when he saw himself in a mirror.
- rqtwteye 3y agoOne of our foster dogs would bark and growl at dogs on TV. I am pretty sure she would have interacted with them if the TV dogs would have responded to her.