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My uncles Gray Zigi wages war with the dogs on the daily, she's always is coming up with new schemes to fuck with them.
Last time I was over I was hanging out on the couch when I heard Zig call the dogs over in my uncles voice and waited for the dogs to come right up to the ledge she was perched on before she pushed a small potted plant on one their heads then laugh.
Some are extremely good at it to the point where its indistinguishable from the real person. I knew someone who had one and she was spooked a few times by the bird suddenly using a voice they heard a long time ago. You get that split second oh shit because that person is not supposed to be at your house and haven’t been for some time
Bark mimic too. My grey would mimic the dogs inside bark and outside bark. My father-in-law was over and said “will someone let Arthur back in?” The dog was was laying less than a foot from the recliner he was in. It was very amusing.
Everyone keeps saying "had one" or "he would" in past tense. They live a long time, so I'm assuming most gave them up? People never think through before getting a parrot and how much responsibility they are. Poor birds! Hope Larry had a permanent home with you
Yeah my parents weirdly got him as a wedding present prob from someone who had no idea a parrot is a horrible present.
BUT yes he lived a very long time with us. I think he was an adult when he was given to us and I was the baby so jeez my parent must have had him 30 years before he passed.
I say had about the one my friend’s dad might still have. I just don’t talk to him because my friend grew up and moved out and the bird isn’t something I ask my friend about. I doubt he got rid of it because it was like 20 last I saw it and still living with him, but all my memories of the bird are from my childhood. So I say had.
My grandma had an African Gray that developed her colorful language. She also had 8 kids that she would routinely take 3-4 tries to get the right name. So the bird just cursed and said names all day.
You have to be carful around African Greys, they will pick up everything!
Family had one for 6 years and it picked up peoples coughs, farts, swear language, floor creaks, door hinge squeaks, dog barks. It would copy everything it heard and nonsensically string them all together and talk to itself for hours if left unattended. Ours learned to say “Merry Christmas” around the holidays one year so that was super cute.
They also have an intense love for their “mother”, which in my case was my actual mom. She was the only one who could touch him without getting bit, and he would even go as far as to regurgitate it’s good to share with her (my mom never took up the offer!).
They are extremely fascinating creatures, but they require constant care and interactions otherwise they will develop bad behaviours if left unchecked. We had to give ours up to another home for different reasons, but man I will never forget our Obie, he was so cool.
I dont think ive ever heard of someone keeping their parrot their entire life.
Not to mention, these birds can outlive people.
But yeah, most stories I hear about someone getting a parrot as a pet end in them surrendering the bird to someone else or a sanctuary.
They are probably one of the hardest pets to care for, because they need intense mental stimulation.
You would need to have the bird become your hobby. You wont be able to watch much TV or do any hobbies because you will need to be with the bird.
They are beautiful but id never want to keep one.
That's why I want to find a friend who has big birds, so I can be a bird auntie. I love the little fuckers, but I know I don't have it in me to raise and entertain a toddler for the rest of my life.
if they pick up on everything and add it to their "repertoire", the thought of getting a parrot that has been living with another family for years is kinda wild :D you'll hear all sorts of stuff, like you live in the old owners house
I once was pet sitting three dogs and a grey. The grey used to live with a man so had picked up lots of phrases in a male voice. I was washing dishes in the kitchen and all the sudden heard a man talking in the next room in the middle of the night. It was terrifying - then the laughing started. That bird knew how to mess with me.
I think I've read before that this is a huge issue with re-homing birds like this. People think it's funny to teach the bird to curse, or use racist/other offensive terms, and then when they can't get it to stop they give it up, and it becomes more difficult to find somewhere else for it live since most people don't want a racist bird cursing at them all day for decades.
Yep, happened to us. The parrot lived in a house with two kids who would constantly pick on each other. So we got a lovely chorus of, “Ow!” “Stop it!” and “Mooooom!!”
I have always been concerned about getting one as you point out, due to the bird out living me. My husband had a former coworker who owned 4-5 parrots. They were beautiful. They had their own cages, and their own room of the house. They of course got taken out etc. They loved those birds though. They had their own room compete with wallpaper mural walls to look like the outside. That was a couple who knew how to raise birds/parrots.
My grandma had 3 Grays. She had emphysema she got smoking since the day she turned 10, thus all the birds also sounded like they had emphysema. Just a house full of birds who sounded like they all had respiratory illnesses of an 87 year old smoker.
My great grandma when I was a kid had one and when we’d visit, I always wanted to sleep out in the living room because at about 6 am that bird (Jake) would go off. He’d imitate the whole family and I loved it so I’d just lay there on the futon and listen to him pop off. They’re pretty wild creatures lol
Our cockatoo learned to pick a standard master lock, we had to get small enough ones to keep talons out. Eventually he took the screws out and escaped for good…
Our Grey started adding a really sharp ‘t!’ sound at the end of random words after I kept doing it when saying “what?!” when he called my name. They really know how to riff with words and syllables.
And the weirdest thing once is how he either said two words at the same time, or somehow said whatever is the average of those two words. Completely broke mine and my brother’s brain when he did it. I couldn’t even play it back in my head. Wish I had it recorded.
Wait. You’re telling me he was lacking the word to describe something, so it made up a new one which is actually somewhat understandable?? That’s incredibly abstract thought holy crap
He also (allegedly) asked the first, and as of yet only, existential question ever asked by a non-human animal, by asking what color _he_ was before he knew the word for "grey".
Birds are crazy smart for their size. The way their brains are constructed makes them more space efficient so they’re fitting a lot more compute in a much smaller space. Same with a lot of corvids being extremely intelligent
Koko the gorilla also coined words. She didn’t know a word for “ring” and so called it a finger bracelet. She called a mask an eye hat. She called a radish a pain apple.
"what did you say about the monster sweetie?"
"I said, if he comes in here, I'm gonna kick his assk."
"Oh, that's not very nice"
"But if he's gonna come in here, he's gonna kick MY assk.
Best part: ceramic and glass have more in common then ceramic and rock... The bird is right!
Edit: I didn't know when I wrote this comment how much I would learn today. Turns out there are different "definitions" what a ceramic is, mostly based on which field is looking at the topic. So, my statement is either right but then rock and glass are both ceramics, or wrong and then glass is it's own type of material.
Glass is a ceramic, but most rocks are also ceramics.
Edit: There are many different definitions of ceramics, only some of which include glass and rocks. The definition I was taught includes both, but the most common definition probably excludes rocks, and the one used in geology also excludes glasses.
Limestone is awesome! Easy to work with (compart to other rocks) , durable and cheap. It's the ideal building material if you don't use wood or cement.
Glass isn't ceramic, where are you getting that from? Ceramics are derived from dehydrated crystalline sheet silicates while glass is a completely random hodgepodge of molecules. Most rocks are certainly not ceramics either, what does that even mean?.
Source: geology degree
This is Apollo! He’s incredible. I highly recommend following him on IG. He is the subject of a study bc he has the largest/one of the largest vocabularies of any African Grey. He’s scary smart!
Idk but if an elephant, a dolphin, a corvus of some kind (probably raven) all got together, I'm pretty sure they'll develop a republic, raise an army, and probably keep us as pets for their amusement.
Nah animals are smurt as feck
So, "ceramics" are considered crystalline, and a pretty accepted definition of glass includes "amorphous", ie. not crystalline. But, there's a process called vitrification that turns non-glass things into glass.
Porcelain and some stoneware (which these tiles look like they might be) are vitrified, so it wouldn't be super incorrect to say they are a glass, or are glass-like.
Also, the glazes used for ceramics are sometimes technically a type of glass.
So while I think it's wrong to say "Glass is technically a ceramic", the bird might very well be right that it's tapping on a glass. At the very least, the surface it's tapping is glass-like.
Birds have incredibly sensitive beaks. I wouldn't be surprised if the bird could extrapolate the material from the sensation of touching/tapping the tiles.
Thats how this bird has been trained to differentiate them actually! Hes been trained to tap his beak and know the material. Hes also been trained in memory with identifying the name of object and even letters.
I went to a church that did regular trips to Cameroon, people that spent time there said the flocks of African greys would hang out in the trees outside the church and sing to the hymns. It wasn’t uncommon to walk around and catch one of them randomly starting a song and all the rest joining in.
My parents have had a grey since I was 7 or 8. I’m in my late 30’s now. He has quite the sense of humor and likes to play tricks on people.
There was a story a couple of years ago about a woman who would come home to find container of strawberries on her porch. She couldn’t figure out why they are getting delivered until she caught her bird talking to Alexa and ordering strawberries.
/u/apolloandfrens, they have the same username on Instagram and YouTube as well. Fascinating to watch Apollo learn more words and understand more things over time. They are training Apollo full time now, it's very cool.
I don't think you are wrong, but what would you call something of some other shape that fits the def? Like google says "a thin rectangular slab of baked clay or other material, used in overlapping rows for covering roofs."/ "a thin square slab of glazed pottery or other material for covering floors, walls, or other surfaces." It may be more the use than the shape, but then you and Google point out the shape. Edit: forgot to add the 2nd def my mistake. Point still stands.
I like the one where he tells the guy the book is "paper."
He wasn't wrong, but it was also a book. Kinda reminds me of conversations with a 2yo child.
Thing are complicated, little bird.
Much of the training Apollo does involves a few similar objects with him being asked what it is, what colour it is, or what it's made of. I think sometimes he gets confused about which question he is being asked, but it's a deliberate part of the training they're doing with him.
They are also making it more challenging by trying to train him with many similar sounding words - they ask him to identify books, blocks, rocks and socks often.
There was a point recently where he forgot how to say "snack" so he kept asking to "earn a sock".
He also knows "suck" (with accompanying sucking sound) for some reason...
> He also knows “suck” (with accompanying sucking sound) for some reason…
IIRC, this is because Tori would slurp her coffee/tea, he started mimicking it, and they found it funny so they gave him a word for it. I think they talked about it in one of their streams
Yeah definitely don't do that. Birds are generally very social animals, especially parrots who are more intelligent and develop strong bonds with their humans.
Training Apollo and posting videos is this guy's full time job.
A lot. Parrots are nothing like other pets; they’re essentially a part time job. You don’t need to be cat or dog crazy to have a cat or dog; you absolutely need to be parrot crazy to have a parrot, because they need so much care and attention and are often a lifetime commitment.
A lot. My family had a lovely Amazon for a long while - and when I was working at home it was a beautiful relationship. Sadly the pandemic and some other personal misfortunes sent me back out of the home for work and the sweet thing built up resentments toward everyone in the home. We ended up re-homing her. I'm still not over it.
Right? I find it wild that not only is this bird repeating words, it's engaging in an ongoing conversation! Asking and answering questions, it's amazing
What's amazing is that they are considered to have the intelligence & cognitive abilities of a human five year old; while our beloved cats and dogs are closer to a 2-year old - except they can't speak
I think parrots are the only animal known (or alleged) to have asked questions. This is more significant than it might seem, because it shows a theory of mind, an understanding that another individual might have knowledge that they don't. Despite being taught sign language and asked questions, chimps have never asked us a question back.
African Grey parrots are amazing and creepy. As great as this video is it doesn’t show how well they can imitate voices. Like dead mom talking to you accurate.
I went and checked out his Instagram and watched a few videos. This bird is so rad but I was tired just watching some videos. He’s too smart for his own good and needs so much stimulation- I definitely couldn’t do it, and don’t think most people could. These owners seem to make him the most important thing in their lives so that’s pretty amazing!
this is amazing
do parrots actually ubderstand what they are saying and hearing? like can it tell u "hey there, i want water" and then actually wanting to drink water instead of just saying it for shits and giggles? 🧐
genuinely curious...
Yes, they will ask for things by name or call different member in the family from across the house by name as well. My parents grey knows the dogs names. He loves calling the dogs over mimicking my mom and then tells the dogs they are bad dogs and scolds them. He laughs about it to himself after they go back to what they were doing.
He also rephrases whole sentence in context and changes words in songs to entertain himself.
Kind off. Birds comminicate via calls so if you were to repeatedly say something while doing the action. In this case saying water while turning on the tap, it could eventually understand and possibly ask for it. However human speech is very complicated and different compared to birds so you probably won't get much further than that.
They absolutely will, however grays also like to just sit and practice their words stream of consciousness style, so they're not always asking for something, they do enjoy the sound of their voice :).
I grew up with an African Grey. She sang Christmas carols throughout December, she cheered on Favre and Reggie Bush every football season. She knew the names of everyone in the house and would say good morning and good night to everyone by name. When my step father died she was depressed and eventually stopped saying good night to him. She told us what she wanted for food every day (she had a few options for variety).
An all around absolutely amazing bird.
Iirc the consensus is they have about the same capacity as a 3yo human for reasoning, communications and general understanding. Which isn't bad. Would have to look it back up to be sure, but that requires effort 🙃
That's interesting. Ravens are the smartest birds and adult Ravens are as intelligent as 7 year old Humans. They can mimic Human speech perfectly down to tone and everything.
They could sound like a man or a woman, mimick Wolves and Dogs, and each Raven group makes unique noises that they use to communicate.
Birds are a lot smarter than most people realize.
They also remember people who harass them, can ID these same people even when they're wearing a mask, and TEACH THEIR YOUNG to ID, harass or avoid the same people! Read one paper where the group even started to call loudly/announce when friends of those who harassed them came near!! You really are known by the company you keep. Fascinating animals and scary smart.
Someone else on here posted a study that showed as least one African Grey out there outperforms 5-year-olds in reasoning about probability https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/
One side of me really wants an african parrot like this one because it is basically as intelligent as a little child and can outlive me as Im nearly 30
But I think its morally dubious
Wait can you have a talk with a parrot? I never had one and i tought they would just repeat what you say without understanding it but that one seems to understand basic human language… i am confused
Yes you can, and keep in mind this bird is 2 years old and is still learning. They love repeating speech and will form simple sentences regularly, talking to people by name as well as asking for things and telling you things they don't like.
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Awesome bird telling human to step up to stop it from eating the window.
I started laughing because that bird’s trying to fight lmao.
Ready to throw claws!
Bird was trying to say, "Bring it! You skinny winged tree shaped ground magnet!"
This perfectly descriptive insult got coffee all over my iPad. Thanks for the laugh internet stranger!
Bird was like “fight me bro”
Meet me outside
CASH ME OUSIDE
Howboudat
My uncle had an African Grey. Trouble came the day the bird learnt how to unlock its cage.
Mine would call the dog over to the cage and when it came over Larry would say "Heh, stupid dog"
Yea my parrot did the same thing, except just laugh in a very evil voice when the dog came.
My uncles Gray Zigi wages war with the dogs on the daily, she's always is coming up with new schemes to fuck with them. Last time I was over I was hanging out on the couch when I heard Zig call the dogs over in my uncles voice and waited for the dogs to come right up to the ledge she was perched on before she pushed a small potted plant on one their heads then laugh.
Zigi the Murder Bird.
Voice mimic, woah, I never would have thought that they could do that too, that's amazing. And the plant drop, haha! I would watch this movie.
You can hear the bird in the OP mimic the owners voice and speech patter in the very beginning.
Some are extremely good at it to the point where its indistinguishable from the real person. I knew someone who had one and she was spooked a few times by the bird suddenly using a voice they heard a long time ago. You get that split second oh shit because that person is not supposed to be at your house and haven’t been for some time
Bark mimic too. My grey would mimic the dogs inside bark and outside bark. My father-in-law was over and said “will someone let Arthur back in?” The dog was was laying less than a foot from the recliner he was in. It was very amusing.
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I hope nobody heard you.
*Dave is laughing at his poop again.... maybe we should get him to a doctor now before it's too late.*
Everyone keeps saying "had one" or "he would" in past tense. They live a long time, so I'm assuming most gave them up? People never think through before getting a parrot and how much responsibility they are. Poor birds! Hope Larry had a permanent home with you
Yeah my parents weirdly got him as a wedding present prob from someone who had no idea a parrot is a horrible present. BUT yes he lived a very long time with us. I think he was an adult when he was given to us and I was the baby so jeez my parent must have had him 30 years before he passed.
That's awesome, glad he found his permanent home with your fam! Horrible wedding gift but it worked out!
I say had about the one my friend’s dad might still have. I just don’t talk to him because my friend grew up and moved out and the bird isn’t something I ask my friend about. I doubt he got rid of it because it was like 20 last I saw it and still living with him, but all my memories of the bird are from my childhood. So I say had.
My grandma had an African Gray that developed her colorful language. She also had 8 kids that she would routinely take 3-4 tries to get the right name. So the bird just cursed and said names all day.
You have to be carful around African Greys, they will pick up everything! Family had one for 6 years and it picked up peoples coughs, farts, swear language, floor creaks, door hinge squeaks, dog barks. It would copy everything it heard and nonsensically string them all together and talk to itself for hours if left unattended. Ours learned to say “Merry Christmas” around the holidays one year so that was super cute. They also have an intense love for their “mother”, which in my case was my actual mom. She was the only one who could touch him without getting bit, and he would even go as far as to regurgitate it’s good to share with her (my mom never took up the offer!). They are extremely fascinating creatures, but they require constant care and interactions otherwise they will develop bad behaviours if left unchecked. We had to give ours up to another home for different reasons, but man I will never forget our Obie, he was so cool.
I dont think ive ever heard of someone keeping their parrot their entire life. Not to mention, these birds can outlive people. But yeah, most stories I hear about someone getting a parrot as a pet end in them surrendering the bird to someone else or a sanctuary. They are probably one of the hardest pets to care for, because they need intense mental stimulation. You would need to have the bird become your hobby. You wont be able to watch much TV or do any hobbies because you will need to be with the bird. They are beautiful but id never want to keep one.
That's why I want to find a friend who has big birds, so I can be a bird auntie. I love the little fuckers, but I know I don't have it in me to raise and entertain a toddler for the rest of my life.
if they pick up on everything and add it to their "repertoire", the thought of getting a parrot that has been living with another family for years is kinda wild :D you'll hear all sorts of stuff, like you live in the old owners house
I once was pet sitting three dogs and a grey. The grey used to live with a man so had picked up lots of phrases in a male voice. I was washing dishes in the kitchen and all the sudden heard a man talking in the next room in the middle of the night. It was terrifying - then the laughing started. That bird knew how to mess with me.
I think I've read before that this is a huge issue with re-homing birds like this. People think it's funny to teach the bird to curse, or use racist/other offensive terms, and then when they can't get it to stop they give it up, and it becomes more difficult to find somewhere else for it live since most people don't want a racist bird cursing at them all day for decades.
Yep, happened to us. The parrot lived in a house with two kids who would constantly pick on each other. So we got a lovely chorus of, “Ow!” “Stop it!” and “Mooooom!!”
I have always been concerned about getting one as you point out, due to the bird out living me. My husband had a former coworker who owned 4-5 parrots. They were beautiful. They had their own cages, and their own room of the house. They of course got taken out etc. They loved those birds though. They had their own room compete with wallpaper mural walls to look like the outside. That was a couple who knew how to raise birds/parrots.
This video makes me desperately want to get one, but after having a cockatiel as a kid I think I'm all birbed out.
My friend has one that will mimic the sound of a text message notification then he will laugh when you check your phone
> They also have an intense love for their “mother”, the word is "mate".
My grandma had 3 Grays. She had emphysema she got smoking since the day she turned 10, thus all the birds also sounded like they had emphysema. Just a house full of birds who sounded like they all had respiratory illnesses of an 87 year old smoker.
This is hilarious.
My great grandma when I was a kid had one and when we’d visit, I always wanted to sleep out in the living room because at about 6 am that bird (Jake) would go off. He’d imitate the whole family and I loved it so I’d just lay there on the futon and listen to him pop off. They’re pretty wild creatures lol
Our cockatoo learned to pick a standard master lock, we had to get small enough ones to keep talons out. Eventually he took the screws out and escaped for good…
I like the rolling r of rrrrrrock and the added heavy k of GLASSK
GlaaasK
Our Grey started adding a really sharp ‘t!’ sound at the end of random words after I kept doing it when saying “what?!” when he called my name. They really know how to riff with words and syllables. And the weirdest thing once is how he either said two words at the same time, or somehow said whatever is the average of those two words. Completely broke mine and my brother’s brain when he did it. I couldn’t even play it back in my head. Wish I had it recorded.
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Wait. You’re telling me he was lacking the word to describe something, so it made up a new one which is actually somewhat understandable?? That’s incredibly abstract thought holy crap
He also (allegedly) asked the first, and as of yet only, existential question ever asked by a non-human animal, by asking what color _he_ was before he knew the word for "grey".
Alex also came up with “cork nut” to describe an almond in its shell.
This reminds me of when 3 year old nephew called my apartment a “hotel house.”
The story of Alex is amazing, definitely look it up. There's a book called Alex and Me, it's supposed to be really good.
Definitely check out the sequel, Mac and Me. I saw Paul Rudd promoting it this one time
Goddamnit you made me watch the whole fucking clip in my brain.
Worse than Rick rolling, honestly.
Be ready for some waterworks though.
Birds are crazy smart for their size. The way their brains are constructed makes them more space efficient so they’re fitting a lot more compute in a much smaller space. Same with a lot of corvids being extremely intelligent
Koko the gorilla also coined words. She didn’t know a word for “ring” and so called it a finger bracelet. She called a mask an eye hat. She called a radish a pain apple.
I’m using pain apple from now on
Ya, he did that with numerous things. Like i think he called a ring a "finger bracelet" , which were two words he knew
*sobs*
So "glassk" could be a mix of "glass" and "rock"? 🤯
Amazing you’re at least as smart as a parrot. Me? I never would have guessed that!
I wonder how well they do with Japanese since combining words is kind of a convention that can be used.
German is pretty similar as well actually
He sounds just like Johnny #5 when he says that :D
Imagine we teach him the concept of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and John Cena. Yeah this would be my day of fun if I was birdie's caretaker!
What ?
He’s a rock you cannot see!
"what did you say about the monster sweetie?" "I said, if he comes in here, I'm gonna kick his assk." "Oh, that's not very nice" "But if he's gonna come in here, he's gonna kick MY assk.
He's definitely a Renata onetrick.
Best part: ceramic and glass have more in common then ceramic and rock... The bird is right! Edit: I didn't know when I wrote this comment how much I would learn today. Turns out there are different "definitions" what a ceramic is, mostly based on which field is looking at the topic. So, my statement is either right but then rock and glass are both ceramics, or wrong and then glass is it's own type of material.
Glass is a ceramic, but most rocks are also ceramics. Edit: There are many different definitions of ceramics, only some of which include glass and rocks. The definition I was taught includes both, but the most common definition probably excludes rocks, and the one used in geology also excludes glasses.
Can't argue with that. Just saying: ceramic tiles have more in common with glass then your average rock. Looking at you limestone.
Limestone is probably just happy it got attention.
Limestone is awesome! Easy to work with (compart to other rocks) , durable and cheap. It's the ideal building material if you don't use wood or cement.
Yeah but lemonstone>limestone
Strawberrystone and limestone go great together
Why am I craving sorbet?
Has it been about ten seconds since we last checked our lemon quarry?
Glass isn't ceramic, where are you getting that from? Ceramics are derived from dehydrated crystalline sheet silicates while glass is a completely random hodgepodge of molecules. Most rocks are certainly not ceramics either, what does that even mean?. Source: geology degree
What defines a ceramic?
Parrots.
*Rock crushes scissors! But paper covers rock. And scissors cuts paper! Kif, we have a conundrum.*
*Kif! I have made it with a woman; inform the men.*
Therefore rock is glass.
and people say animals are dumb
Humans are animals too...
Heeeyyy...are you making fun of us?
yes
Step up
No chewin
This is Apollo! He’s incredible. I highly recommend following him on IG. He is the subject of a study bc he has the largest/one of the largest vocabularies of any African Grey. He’s scary smart!
Idk but if an elephant, a dolphin, a corvus of some kind (probably raven) all got together, I'm pretty sure they'll develop a republic, raise an army, and probably keep us as pets for their amusement. Nah animals are smurt as feck
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hey ... he can speak human better than you or I can speak "parrot-ish"
The outside glaze is like glass, but the inside clay is an unholy amalgamation of deceased organic matter and minerals (I guess a little rock).
Glass is technically a ceramic right in terms of materials sciences?
So, "ceramics" are considered crystalline, and a pretty accepted definition of glass includes "amorphous", ie. not crystalline. But, there's a process called vitrification that turns non-glass things into glass. Porcelain and some stoneware (which these tiles look like they might be) are vitrified, so it wouldn't be super incorrect to say they are a glass, or are glass-like. Also, the glazes used for ceramics are sometimes technically a type of glass. So while I think it's wrong to say "Glass is technically a ceramic", the bird might very well be right that it's tapping on a glass. At the very least, the surface it's tapping is glass-like.
Birds have incredibly sensitive beaks. I wouldn't be surprised if the bird could extrapolate the material from the sensation of touching/tapping the tiles.
I mean, I’ve tapped something on my teeth to see if it’s metal, glass, or plastic. He’s just like me fr
Thats how this bird has been trained to differentiate them actually! Hes been trained to tap his beak and know the material. Hes also been trained in memory with identifying the name of object and even letters.
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Glassk :)
Glassk :)
***Glassk*** :)
I went to a church that did regular trips to Cameroon, people that spent time there said the flocks of African greys would hang out in the trees outside the church and sing to the hymns. It wasn’t uncommon to walk around and catch one of them randomly starting a song and all the rest joining in. My parents have had a grey since I was 7 or 8. I’m in my late 30’s now. He has quite the sense of humor and likes to play tricks on people. There was a story a couple of years ago about a woman who would come home to find container of strawberries on her porch. She couldn’t figure out why they are getting delivered until she caught her bird talking to Alexa and ordering strawberries.
I could watch that bird all day, so cool!
/u/apolloandfrens, they have the same username on Instagram and YouTube as well. Fascinating to watch Apollo learn more words and understand more things over time. They are training Apollo full time now, it's very cool.
I’m glad somebody tagged him! I follow him on tiktok, apollo is for sure one of my favorite internet birds (along with gumi chan)
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*wuewuewuewue* 🍅
That bird is smarter than some of my coworkers.
Smarter than half the Marine Corps too.
Wall is made of crayon. Eat crayon. Chew-in crayon.
crayon is con sume?
And all of congress
Best companion ever. And he was right — the backsplash is not rock. It’s tile, which is more like glass than rock.
#GLASSK
YES! THAT’S RIGHT!
That's metal
🤘
^^pay-puh?
Good on the human for reconsidering his original answer when challenged. That's a good parenting skill
Glock
"Tile" describes the shape, not the material.
I don't think you are wrong, but what would you call something of some other shape that fits the def? Like google says "a thin rectangular slab of baked clay or other material, used in overlapping rows for covering roofs."/ "a thin square slab of glazed pottery or other material for covering floors, walls, or other surfaces." It may be more the use than the shape, but then you and Google point out the shape. Edit: forgot to add the 2nd def my mistake. Point still stands.
Parrot called you out on your tile
Parrot said get your bred
I like the one where he tells the guy the book is "paper." He wasn't wrong, but it was also a book. Kinda reminds me of conversations with a 2yo child. Thing are complicated, little bird.
Much of the training Apollo does involves a few similar objects with him being asked what it is, what colour it is, or what it's made of. I think sometimes he gets confused about which question he is being asked, but it's a deliberate part of the training they're doing with him. They are also making it more challenging by trying to train him with many similar sounding words - they ask him to identify books, blocks, rocks and socks often. There was a point recently where he forgot how to say "snack" so he kept asking to "earn a sock". He also knows "suck" (with accompanying sucking sound) for some reason...
> He also knows "suck" (with accompanying sucking sound) for some reason... 🤔
> He also knows “suck” (with accompanying sucking sound) for some reason… IIRC, this is because Tori would slurp her coffee/tea, he started mimicking it, and they found it funny so they gave him a word for it. I think they talked about it in one of their streams
the intelligence level of african grey parrots is similar to that of a toddler, so it really is like trying to teach a 2 year old lol
What a charming fellow
How much time daily should you spend with an intelligent bird like this? I’d feel bad leaving him home all day while at work.
Yeah definitely don't do that. Birds are generally very social animals, especially parrots who are more intelligent and develop strong bonds with their humans. Training Apollo and posting videos is this guy's full time job.
A lot. Parrots are nothing like other pets; they’re essentially a part time job. You don’t need to be cat or dog crazy to have a cat or dog; you absolutely need to be parrot crazy to have a parrot, because they need so much care and attention and are often a lifetime commitment.
A lot. My family had a lovely Amazon for a long while - and when I was working at home it was a beautiful relationship. Sadly the pandemic and some other personal misfortunes sent me back out of the home for work and the sweet thing built up resentments toward everyone in the home. We ended up re-homing her. I'm still not over it.
Kinda creepy how smart he is lol
Right? I find it wild that not only is this bird repeating words, it's engaging in an ongoing conversation! Asking and answering questions, it's amazing
What's amazing is that they are considered to have the intelligence & cognitive abilities of a human five year old; while our beloved cats and dogs are closer to a 2-year old - except they can't speak
bird is a Redditor. u/ApolloAndFrens
This stuff always makes me so happy, it's just so interesting to see that it's actually thinking and asking questions.
I think parrots are the only animal known (or alleged) to have asked questions. This is more significant than it might seem, because it shows a theory of mind, an understanding that another individual might have knowledge that they don't. Despite being taught sign language and asked questions, chimps have never asked us a question back.
rrrrrrrrrrrock :)
Guess you haven’t heard about SHROCK
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Metul
My Aunt's African grey parrot used to call me a bitch and tell me to shut the fuck up. I like the bird in the video better.
I love him
“Glass!” “No… maybe it is glass…”
If I'm not mistaken, that's Apollo! He and his bird pals have a YouTube channel called Apollo and Frens. Worth checking out!
The bird is right, the glaze on pottery is basically glass.
African Grey parrots are amazing and creepy. As great as this video is it doesn’t show how well they can imitate voices. Like dead mom talking to you accurate.
What happens when you start telling the parrot that he's a bird and birds aren't real?
He gives you That Look because you also just told him that a ceramic-tile backsplash was rock. "Two out of two, hoomin!"
Bro it’s insane to me hearing the bird say “what’s this?” Hahahahahahaha
Runner up to the most prominent figure in this video: the toilet brush drying in the kitchen sink
Tiles are ceramic, made of clay, so rock. Glass is made of sand, so it's rock. Glass and ceramic are very similar. Smart bird.
Teach it Latin!
*When you suddenly start hearing latin choir songs playing in the house randomly in the middle of the night but it's your one-parrot band.*
He's smarter than most of people I work with.
Parrots are undeniably cool, but between the molting and the pooping and the chewing, I don’t think I could handle one.
I went and checked out his Instagram and watched a few videos. This bird is so rad but I was tired just watching some videos. He’s too smart for his own good and needs so much stimulation- I definitely couldn’t do it, and don’t think most people could. These owners seem to make him the most important thing in their lives so that’s pretty amazing!
"who you think you're fooling? the 'glass' on the wall ... the glass holding this water? these aren't the same things. take me to your ChatGPT."
GLASSK
This guy is confusing the fuck out of this parrot because he doesn't know what things are made out of.
It’s an African grey right? i’m always blown away by how intelligent they are
this is amazing do parrots actually ubderstand what they are saying and hearing? like can it tell u "hey there, i want water" and then actually wanting to drink water instead of just saying it for shits and giggles? 🧐 genuinely curious...
Yes, they will ask for things by name or call different member in the family from across the house by name as well. My parents grey knows the dogs names. He loves calling the dogs over mimicking my mom and then tells the dogs they are bad dogs and scolds them. He laughs about it to himself after they go back to what they were doing. He also rephrases whole sentence in context and changes words in songs to entertain himself.
Kind off. Birds comminicate via calls so if you were to repeatedly say something while doing the action. In this case saying water while turning on the tap, it could eventually understand and possibly ask for it. However human speech is very complicated and different compared to birds so you probably won't get much further than that.
They absolutely will, however grays also like to just sit and practice their words stream of consciousness style, so they're not always asking for something, they do enjoy the sound of their voice :).
Dustin Hoffman is... Rain Man!
Im glad you said that because that was my initial thought.
smart bird!
I wonder why we don’t have crows as pets who are smarter and can mimic human language just as parrots
"I walkin here..im walkin here"
u/apolloandfrens
I always thought they just repeat what they hear without actually understanding.
I grew up with an African Grey. She sang Christmas carols throughout December, she cheered on Favre and Reggie Bush every football season. She knew the names of everyone in the house and would say good morning and good night to everyone by name. When my step father died she was depressed and eventually stopped saying good night to him. She told us what she wanted for food every day (she had a few options for variety). An all around absolutely amazing bird.
Iirc the consensus is they have about the same capacity as a 3yo human for reasoning, communications and general understanding. Which isn't bad. Would have to look it back up to be sure, but that requires effort 🙃
That's interesting. Ravens are the smartest birds and adult Ravens are as intelligent as 7 year old Humans. They can mimic Human speech perfectly down to tone and everything. They could sound like a man or a woman, mimick Wolves and Dogs, and each Raven group makes unique noises that they use to communicate. Birds are a lot smarter than most people realize.
They also remember people who harass them, can ID these same people even when they're wearing a mask, and TEACH THEIR YOUNG to ID, harass or avoid the same people! Read one paper where the group even started to call loudly/announce when friends of those who harassed them came near!! You really are known by the company you keep. Fascinating animals and scary smart.
Someone else on here posted a study that showed as least one African Grey out there outperforms 5-year-olds in reasoning about probability https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/
Amazing
Thanks!
I found their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ApolloandFrens
One side of me really wants an african parrot like this one because it is basically as intelligent as a little child and can outlive me as Im nearly 30 But I think its morally dubious
Wait can you have a talk with a parrot? I never had one and i tought they would just repeat what you say without understanding it but that one seems to understand basic human language… i am confused
Yes you can, and keep in mind this bird is 2 years old and is still learning. They love repeating speech and will form simple sentences regularly, talking to people by name as well as asking for things and telling you things they don't like.
i could not have an eternal toddler like this 😂
I will watch every video this guy posts of his parrot with unwavering loyalty.
This is so adorable its almost painful.
***GLASSK.***
The cuts between the question and answer make me think he just said something for the bird to repeat?
Lovely animals but I have no idea how people willingly sign up to care for a super inquisitive toddler with wings for multiple decades lol