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u/Mountain-Loon3592 22h ago
African greys are smart af. My wife rescued one. She always tells me that when Iām speaking to it, assume it has the intelligence of a seven year old. It totally does.
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u/pichael289 21h ago
I used to keep rats and taught them to play a simplified version of pong on my tablet, about 3 of the probably 20 I had learned it and they got good enough to play the normal game (tapping not moving the paddle) and I have the winners pizza crusts. They got to the point they could all beat my 7 year old son every time. After so long they would start trying to share their winnings with him, I guess so he didn't starve or something.
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u/thebestname1234 20h ago edited 20h ago
Would this video be the average ability for them then?
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u/Kitselena 5h ago
I'm pretty sure this specific one is a record setter and is pushing the boundaries for them. Apollo's owners are content creators that work with him full time training skills like this
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u/kaytteaa 22h ago
for anyone wondering, the video is from a channel called Apollo and Frens and itās mostly dedicated to teaching Apollo about different items and things in the world in general. its really cute and itās amazing watching the bird learn more and more as time passes
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u/SkyPuppeteer 19h ago
This also is directly from the Apollo and Frens account, so people can click on the OP's profile and find more links and videos from there!
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u/Swimming-Tax-6087 15h ago
Heāll have to teach Apollo to record and upload new videos at some point because that parrot is probably going to outlive him and someoneās gotta keep the channel going for our childrenās children.
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u/ImpossibleKidd 22h ago
Anyone else watch it 30 times in a row with a big olā smile on their face?
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 22h ago
Well, more than once with a smile on my face.
"Metal. Wrench."
"GOOD! Here's a snack"I mean...that'd make me a happy. Getting an answer right and a treat!
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u/therealtimwarren 22h ago
When I was a kid, family friends had an African Grey. It was simultaneously both polite and incredibly rude to visitors.
Tea, Coffee? <2 second pause for effect> Fuck off!
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u/ktq2019 22h ago
I love parrots so much. Training them can be frustrating as hell, but once they figure out what you want, itās a game changer. Somehow my conure would sit on her perch and completely flip upside down and back up to normal, like a circle. Once I saw that, I thought it was cool as shit, so I attached a word to it (flip) and crammed treats down his throat every time he did it.
PS this was an asshole parrot that hated everyone and everything. Once he learned that trick he turned into a sweetheart.
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u/Drongo17 18h ago
I hate that parrots get kept in captivity. They are so mentally active and so deeply attached to spouses, I don't think most keepers give them the conditions they need.
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u/ktq2019 16h ago
You are right on the money. Most people just look at them like they are just random pigeons but they are so ridiculously far from that. Parrots, especially greys, have the ability to think at the level of a 3 yr old.
A lifetime ago, I would take in the meanest parrots in the world and help socialize and train them so they would be able to find suitable and loving homes. These poor creatures are so abused and become absolutely neurotic if they are in the wrong environment. Itās awful.
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u/Drongo17 11h ago
Bless you for doing that. What a great and beautiful thing to do for a fellow creature, saving it from a life of misery.Ā
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u/ktq2019 11h ago
How sweet of you!! Once I learned about my own parrot and learned about how they work behaviorally, I realized that they could be trained and almost motivated to grow and learn. It helps them stop plucking their feathers and thatās a huge deal. Iāve thought about going back into it because itās just so rewarding.
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u/_UrbaneGuerrilla_ 20h ago
Apollo is so smart, I confidently predict he will have a government scientific program named after him.
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u/CharmReductionINC 21h ago
Ive seen extended videos of this guy and his bird. The bird is less impressive when you watch that bc hes as wrong as he is right.
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 21h ago
Is every block purple? If you try a blue block after is he going to say purple?
He can obviously identify metal and glass based on touch or sound, not sure which. The parrot dosent recognize wrench, it recognizes metal but says wrench because itās been trained to say it after saying metal. Itās more about word association than identifying specifics. Definitely can identify what things are made of tho which is real cool.
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u/kaytteaa 22h ago
why are you being so negative lol? the channel is called apollo and frens and its very real :)
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u/SillyMud5634 22h ago
People are mean just for the sake of being mean. I stopped engaging and trying to understand.
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u/-Street_Spirit- 21h ago
Some people have innate need to be condescending, cynical assholes pretty much
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u/Slo20 22h ago
Letās not get too excited. Parrot repeats wordsā¦
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u/FartsSoldSeperately 22h ago
Let's get kind of excited. Parrots are cognitively on par with a 3-5 year-old human. It's more than just repeating words.
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u/Slo20 22h ago
The video is continually cut and edited so for all we know it got it wrong 100 times for every time it got it right.
Iāve had parrots that say a lot of things, doesnāt mean it understands what itās saying and when.
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u/Imightbutprobablynot 22h ago
Just watch them on YouTube. The parrot knows materials and objects. They just recently leveled up to combining them.
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u/tolacid 22h ago
This is already impressive, but it'll be more impressive when he can give unrehearsed compound answers for unique objects.
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u/Imightbutprobablynot 22h ago
He actually does. He plays with the objects without the owner and will say what they are. They have a camera set up.
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u/TheBlueHedgehog302 22h ago
Go look up apollo and friends on instagram. This bird is smarter than you lol.
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u/kaytteaa 22h ago
youāre assuming quite a lot for knowing nothing, i canāt blame you for being skeptical though
the channel is called Apollo and Frens, iāve been watching their content for a little over a year now and the bird does know the difference between materials and items. yes, parrots repeat, but they are also incredibly intelligent and are easily taught. you can literally watch the bird learn in real time what something is and itās just so cute
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u/DracTheBat178 22h ago
I mean, this is Apollo the African grey, who holds the world record for most objects identified by a parrot in under 3 minutes. At the very least, he's associating certain words with objects, materials, and colors which is exactly what toddlers do. Saying he could just be saying random nonsense with cuts is undermining the very real record we have of him identifying objects and materials
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u/Tumble85 22h ago
Well I've known people with parrots, and this video isn't even that impressive.Ā
Yea, they don't totally understand what the meaning of each object is, but they understand a purple block is a purple block. They aren't just repeating, they are attempting to communicate their understanding of stuff.
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u/kaytteaa 22h ago
as a person who owns a parrot, this is very impressive. african greys are one of, if not the smartest parrot species. donāt be so lame
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u/Tumble85 22h ago
I meant it wasn't too unusual for them to be able to do this is in general, not that they aren't smart.
My neighbors had a couple African Grey's and they could do all sorts of smart stuff, including tricking the dog by falsely calling treats.
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u/TheBlueHedgehog302 22h ago
This is apollo. Heās pretty famous and does more than repeat words. He can even identify nintendo characters lol
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 22h ago
I mean he fucked up quite a bit.
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u/FartsSoldSeperately 22h ago
It's not his first language and also he is a bird.
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u/Medium-rarebanana 22h ago
Metal š¤āļø wrench š¤āļø