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Pet parrots prefer live video-calls

by agiacalone on 5/2/24, 6:00 PM with 29 comments

  • by andrewstuart on 5/2/24, 8:29 PM

    Someone should make "Omegle for Parrots" and let them hang with random parrots from around the world online whenever they feel like it.
  • by abruzzi on 5/2/24, 9:06 PM

    Kind of off topic, but my pet parrot (a Mitred Conure) gets off-the-hook loud whenever I try to watch Hitchcock's The Birds. The movie has a lot of bird noises (and strangely enough an electronic music score thats not really audible as a score--it just makes the squawks denser) but I don't know if he's trying to engage or mimicking.
  • by 1-6 on 5/2/24, 9:39 PM

    I’m curious now, can a parrot tell the difference between a real parrot and an AI generated one?
  • by Shermanium on 5/2/24, 6:54 PM

    "animal internet" sounds like a future bubble. who funded this besides U Glasgow? imagine having to pay another monthly bill for pet internet!
  • by astura on 5/2/24, 7:30 PM

    This appears to be a different study about parrots making video calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219

    Same researchers though, or at least appears to be.

  • by luckyou on 5/3/24, 3:51 PM

    It reminds me a joke. At the pet store:

    - I'd like to buy a talking parrot. - Sure, but just two. - Why only two? - Because one speaks Spanish and the other translates.

  • by galaxyLogic on 5/3/24, 3:00 AM

    I think this says that parrots prefer to communicate rather than just listen.
  • by scotty79 on 5/3/24, 12:47 AM

    > 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.

    Completely opposite than humans.

  • by throwway120385 on 5/2/24, 6:56 PM

    "animal internet" is no where near as interesting as the idea that pet parrots can recognize the images on a tablet as another parrot that they are interacting with in real-time.