BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.

Subject: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 06:18 PM

Check this out:

Einstein!

This is one smart parrot. Winston Wellington-Jones should have bought this one instead of the one that swears at people all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 08:12 PM

Great link. Took forever to download but it was worth it.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 08:20 PM

Hmmmmmm? That danged birs is smarter than a lot of the folks here in the Catbox, myself included... Bet it spells and types bedder, too...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 03:10 AM

Pffffffff... the woman is a ventriloquist and the bird is mute.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 06:22 AM

Maybe the bird is a ventriloquist and the woman is mute.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 11:50 AM

Yeah! That's what I figure too. That bird is a flippin' genius! And the woman is kind of cute, even if she is mute.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 11:49 PM

They're both mute! It's a one inch tall alien, hiding inside the microphone who does the talking. It's partner hides behind the roost to control the earthlings.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 09:42 PM

Worth another look :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Ferrara
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 09:33 PM

There was a recent article in the Washington Post that said scientists have figured out that birds don't really have "bird brains" .... Can't remember the precise terminology, I'm afraid, but the part of the brain that "thinks" in humans was presumed for decades -- centuries? -- to be taken up entirely by instinctual patterns of behavior in birds. They've somehow figured out that it's capable of "thinking" whatever that means.

At least I got to say ha ha to Bill, who has disagreed with me over the years as to whether birds were "really thinking" when I pointed out situations where birds took in information and acted on it. Fr'instance we had a pet bird whose beak couldn't open safflower seeds without several tries. They would fly out of her beak & land on the floor. When she was out of the cage, I would often pick them up and put them back in her reach. Eventually she got to where she would eat other seeds at her perch, but if she picked up a safflower seed she brought it over and ate it next to the computer keyboard so I could be readily available pick it up if it went flying. That's not instinctive behavior for a bird! I believe she had an "idea," even if it was just a mental picture of something that COULD happen, which she acted on. She was a finch, too, not a parrot or big bird.

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:39 PM

Now here's one that deserves to be seen again...

Subject: RE: BS: Einstein the Parrot! A brainy bird.
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 07:31 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching Challenge
From: gnu - PM
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 03:21 PM

I have GOT to get a video camera or whatever they are called these days. My neighbour has a small bird feeder which cannot be perched upon and eaten from by larger birds like pigeons. As well, he hung the feeder with a foot long piece of #10 insulated copper wire so it would swing freely, thus being even more unstable. I just saw a pigeon repeatedly do the following.

It grabbed a perch with it's talons and then grabbed a corner of the "eave". It flapped it's wings vigorously, forcing the feeder to spin a half dozen revolutions. It released and went to ground under the feeder. The feeder spun wildy, spewing feed to the pigeon and it's buddies.