I am teaching my princess parrot to recognise objects and colours (with small wicker balls she likes to play with already) to see if I can mimic the experiments with Alex the African Grey parrot. Ultimately I want to raise awareness of these creatures beca

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Phantasm!agoricWOck 10/24/26 (Sat) 14:09:52 No.115350

I am teaching my princess parrot to recognise objects and colours (with small wicker balls she likes to play with already) to see if I can mimic the experiments with Alex the African Grey parrot. Ultimately I want to raise awareness of these creatures because they are considered "aloof aviary birds" to help stop the aviary trade, but she's genuinely the smartest parrot I've ever owned. She really likes green because it sounds like her flock call. I'm trying to stay still when I do it so I don't prime her like Clever Hans the horse (which tbh still shows horses are quite intelligent). Pic related was me just starting out with green only.

She can pick green every time and blue most of the time when I ask, even when switching balls, and she's already making soft vocalisations. Do you guys believe there is validity to the notion parrots can understand language/communicate using human language?

Anonymous 10/24/26 (Sat) 15:19:17 No.115355

From what I'd ever been told is that they can mimic the vocalizations but don't actually understand it. If it has or can be proven otherwise that'd be cool though.

My dog seems to be above average intelligence despite being completely untrained. One example is he will signal that he wants to come in the house by getting up on his hind legs and placing his forelegs on the sliding door handle, imitating what he sees humans do when they open the door for him.

Phantasm!agoricWOck 10/24/26 (Sat) 16:03:42 No.115356

>>115355
I don't necessarily expect her to be a talker (as a general rule, the girls don't mimic speech), but if she can identify objects and colours, that's pretty smart tbh and communication via touch.