The study parrots engaged in various social behaviors that researchers would often see amongst groups of birds or in the wild, including dancing and singing together.
Parrots are socially complex animals, outperforming 6- and 7-year-old children in puzzle activities and memory skills. When kept as pets, these birds frequently lack suitable stimulation to meet their high social, cognitive, and emotional needs.
Parrots "have high mental needs that aren't always catered to very well in companion situations," Jennifer Cunha of Northeastern University, who co-authored the study, toldThe parrots were trained to ring a bell, which would then be followed by the presentation of a tablet by the study's principal investigators, Jennifer Cunha of Northeastern University and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas of the University of Glasgow.
To determine how much the parrots genuinely desired to spend time in video chats, researchers examined engagement and agency.Surprisingly, they observed a lot of social activities, such as dancing and singing together, that they might often observe between birds that were together or in the wild.The researchers observed how the birds used that newfound ability over a three-month period.
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