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Why 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
by a1369209993 2y ago
Why 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 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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.