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Friday, May 03, 2024

Pet parrots given the choice to video-call each other or watch pre-recorded videos of other birds will flock to the opportunity for live chats, new research shows.

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... The study, led by animal-computer interaction specialists at the University of Glasgow, gave tablet devices to nine parrots and their owners to explore the potential of the video chats to expand the birds' social lives.

Their results suggest that the clever birds, who often suffer from loneliness in captivity, may be able to tell the difference between live and pre-recorded content on digital devices, and strongly prefer interacting with other birds in real time.

The paper, titled "Call of the Wild Web: Parrot Engagement in Live vs. Pre-recorded Video Calls," will be presented at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) held in Honolulu May 11"16.

Over the course of the six-month study, the parrots chose to initiate calls to other birds significantly more often than they opted to watch pre-recorded footage.

They also seemed more engaged in the live chats, spending much longer on calls with other birds than they did watching videos from a library of options. ...

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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-03 05:59 PM | Reply

How long before Zoom branches out to the pet world?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-03 06:00 PM | Reply

He's pinin' for the fjords.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-05-04 01:51 AM | Reply

@#3

:)

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-04 01:57 AM | Reply

I could have told them that. All animals have a sound that is beyond the hearing of humans. I'm not surprised that it wouldn't reverberate the same on a pre-recorded video.

Even my cat knows the difference between real birds and bird chatter on YouTube-Cat TV.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-05-04 03:42 AM | Reply

And probably why Bigfoot doesn't respond to recorded audio of what hunters believe are calls from his own kind. The resonance just isn't the same.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-05-04 09:00 AM | Reply

A guy is walking past a mall pet store's open window when a parrot in a cage says, "you look like a real ******* loser!" The pet store owner hears this and threatens to put the parrot in a dark closet if he does it again.

While the guy's walking the other way out of the mall, the parrot goes, "psst, buddy," and the guy walks over.

The parrot in a sniveling voice says, "you know!"

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-05-04 05:13 PM | Reply

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