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Animal Minds
New Zealand
Приєднався 22 чер 2018
The Animal Minds Lab at the University of Auckland performs cognitive research studies with multiple species including Kea parrots, New Caledonian Crows and Dogs.
Saying farewell to the kea
My time with the kea has sadly come to an end as I am heading off overseas for 2022, so it is time to say farewell.
I will be starting up my own personal channel in the new year, so if you want to see what I am up to now that I have left the birds, head over to ua-cam.com/users/Thisispatrickwood and subscribe!
Before I go, I wanted to give the birds a final farewell / Christmas gift, so I brought in the clothes and boots that I have been wearing while working with them for the past year and left them out for the birds to destroy!
It goes without saying, please don’t do this yourself, as even under careful supervision accidents can still happen and birds can choke on small parts, which might require immediate interference or veterinary attention.
Thank you to everyone who has been following this channel and the adventures of our birds! Look out for more videos here next year from our new technician Sam about our future work and research, and be sure to check out my new channel to see what I get up to next!
I will be starting up my own personal channel in the new year, so if you want to see what I am up to now that I have left the birds, head over to ua-cam.com/users/Thisispatrickwood and subscribe!
Before I go, I wanted to give the birds a final farewell / Christmas gift, so I brought in the clothes and boots that I have been wearing while working with them for the past year and left them out for the birds to destroy!
It goes without saying, please don’t do this yourself, as even under careful supervision accidents can still happen and birds can choke on small parts, which might require immediate interference or veterinary attention.
Thank you to everyone who has been following this channel and the adventures of our birds! Look out for more videos here next year from our new technician Sam about our future work and research, and be sure to check out my new channel to see what I get up to next!
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Відео
How do our birds react to a kea impostor?
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For a few months now I have had a set of kea lawn ornaments that I have really wanted to see how the kea would react to. So to wrap up 2021, I bought one into the aviary just to put down in front of the birds and record their response!
What Happens When You Show Kea A Mirror?
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This week we have something I have been wanting to try out for a very long time. I bought in a mirror and put it in front of the kea just to see what their first reaction would be. This could be extended into a proper mirror mark test to see if they are able to recognize themselves at all, but that is beyond what we currently have time or approval to do, so may have to wait for someone else to ...
Playing with the Work Platforms (and Other Things)
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Sometimes kea like to play with things we didn't really intend them to, here are a few of their favourite things to play around with when we're not looking! Consider making a donation to help protect kea in the wild! Kea Conservation Trust NZ www.keaconservation.co.nz/ South Island Wildlife Hospital www.wildlifehospital.co.nz/ Come and visit the kea! www.willowbank.co.nz/ Find out more about...
Bird of the Year and Other Kea News
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I've been off on some long overdue leave, but am now back in the aviary! Some Kea News: www.stuff.co.nz/national/kea-kids-news/300435628/kea-kids-news-the-kea-with-half-a-beak-who-uses-pebbles-to-preen-himself www.nzgeo.com/stories/bruce-finds-a-solution/
Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous
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Human psychology and animal cognition have increasingly used virtual stimuli to test cognitive abilities, with the expectation that participants are ‘naive realists’, that is, that they perceive virtual environments as both equivalent and continuous with real-life equivalents. However, there have been no attempts to investigate whether nonhuman subjects in fact behave as if physical processes i...
The Story of Bruce / Kati the Kea
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The attention that Bruce / Kati has been getting over the past week has been absolutely incredible. This week I wanted to sit down and talk a bit more about his story to introduce this amazing parrot to people who might just be meeting him for the first time, and share a few new insights I haven't been able to share before for people that have met previously. Read the paper here: www.nature.com...
Self‐care tooling innovation in a disabled kea (Nestor notabilis)
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Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97086-w Tooling is associated with complex cognitive abilities, occurring most regularly in large-brained mammals and birds. Among birds, self-care tooling is seemingly rare in the wild, despite several anecdotal reports of this behaviour in captive parrots. Here, we show that Bruce, a disabled parrot lacking his top mandible, deliberately...
Searching for Kea at Arthur's Pass
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Just to be clear, this video was filmed before New Zealand entered its latest lockdown. For something a little different this week we're leaving the aviary for a little drive up to Arthur's Pass to see if we can find any wild kea. Music Credits: Acoustic/Folk Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported- CC BY 3.0 Consider m...
Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task
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We have a new paper out all about parrots pulling strings! It's also the first paper to come out with me included as an author since joining our lab. I was a little late getting this video ready for the actual release of the paper, but here is a little explanation of what was involved in putting this paper together. If you would like to read the full paper, you can find it here: doi.org/10.1038...
Introducing new tokens to the kea
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We're ramping up for some new experiments to start soon and that means we're introducing some new types of tokens for the birds to exchange! This will give us a bit more flexibility on the tasks we can give the birds and questions we can ask in the future! Consider making a donation to help protect kea in the wild! Kea Conservation Trust NZ www.keaconservation.co.nz/ South Island Wildlife Hosp...
Answering Viewer Questions about Kea
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Answering Viewer Questions about Kea
Understanding What Kea Calls Mean (How To Speak Kea)
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Understanding What Kea Calls Mean (How To Speak Kea)
Dogs mentally represent jealousy-inducing social interactions
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Dogs mentally represent jealousy-inducing social interactions
Plankton Makes His Bird of the Year Vote
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Plankton Makes His Bird of the Year Vote
Training Kea to Use Touchscreens (Part 2)
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Training Kea to Use Touchscreens (Part 2)
Training Kea to Use Touchscreens (Part 1)
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Training Kea to Use Touchscreens (Part 1)
kinda late to the game here but I would think the slide should be wider. Maybe even up to one meter wide. If they like to roll down surfaces, they would need enough room to be comfortable that they wouldn't fall off.
Why Is his name plankton
Two years to late to the party but here's my experience: I have a little Indian Ringneck. When she sees a mirror, she'll toddle over, tap the glass a few times, inspect it for about 30 seconds and then basically ignore it. I don't think she recognizes that it's a reflection of herself but she most certainly realizes that it is not another bird. My mum's cockatoos are the same, they don't care at all about mirrors, they know they aren't other birds.
CHICKEN SOUND NOT KEA SOUND
Short and informative, deserves a sub.
Mr Kea sir! We have found this strange portal to another world! Excellent, let's move it to another location and see if the location on the other side changes! Sir! All attempts to relocate the portal have resisted our efforts!
When i was young, the old folk in the town where i lived would hire a bus from Midland Motorways and my father as driver for a week-long trip to some part of the South Island. Always looked forward to going over Arthurs' Pass (between Canterbury and the West coast) because, sure enough.....Keas. The cheeky devils would walk/hop right up to you, and once, when i was distracted, unraveled my shoe laces which ended up with me flat on my face.The scene was always enlivened by dad's shouts..... "Don't let the buggers onto the bus"!. He had had quite a few experiences with keas when he was a lad, rabbit shooting in the high country, but they always fascinated me with their cheek and obvious intelligence.
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do keas like getting wet? I would imagine they might not be too "kean" on sliding down a wet slide into a pond..
So cute kea
The older keas in the group enclosure seemed to want to explore what was in the mirror while the juveniles just wanted to destroy it. I think the adults have into the juvenile chaos and let the kids have fun. Given time without the juveniles, I’d be interested to see how to adults who showed true interest in their images in the mirror would react with longer access.
😂😂😂 cute 🥰
I think they're too used to seeing themselves anyway which is why they didn't care for it other than to destroy
A lonely kea would show a strong interest in it's reflection I think. For these, may it be their reflection or a real parrot, it's just another kea ! it doesn't matter. A lonely bird would make it's reflection a companion, I've seen it many times, with those birds that are not "in love" with there caretaker and still a bit frightened by humans. But a bird whose 'social needs' are met will understand the mirror and will make use of it, for training and doing silly funny things in front of it and speaking to itself things like : "that's a good bird !" "pretty bird !" "kisses !", all knowing it's talking to itself ... But whatever it is, a parrot needs to investigate it with it's tongue and beak, and somewhat crack it open, seeing is just never enough for a psittacine.
Cameraman " here's a piece of paper for you to play with" Kea " gimmie" " no mine'.
Kea Vanity Rating: 1/10 Kea Destructive ability: 8/10 Kea Cuteness: 11/10
Thank u so much for this informations, today was the first day I heard the „Whistle“ and I didn’t recognize before (I work with keas 21 years) and now I found your video about it and it helped me so much
Love the doves (?) in the background singing Whoomp! There it is! while the kea work on the log.
Phantastische Vögel……..😂
Tough crowd, seems like its not easy to make them laugh
This is Bruce!
Amazing, would like to know more about crows that solved it first attempt. Also if they had a chance to communicate with crows that had already completed the task before they undertook it.
Kea sees mirror. Kea reaction: "Oh , a mirror , I'm gorgeous . Where's the food?"
They know the mirror is an object and therefore dont think their reflection is another bird?
Honestly, I think they were like 'oh, there's my reflection. Well... that was fun for a second - I'm gonna go play with something more interesting!'
Where are you based? Auckland or south island?
1:05 Aw poor guy :(
One was stepping forward and back, he definitely was testing of it was himself.
I've heard that keas are the most indigent bird in the world.
Thanks for this video. Sorry the Dunning-Kruger brigade adds to any comment section. How beautiful to see other birds feeding him. Didn't know this happened with older birds.❤ Grateful for folks raising conservation awareness. Happy trails, all. ✨
Several things come to mind but the first is that their reflection is not a novelty to them; humans didn't just think one day 'hmm, wouldn't it be great to invent a thing that lets me see myself for the first time', the mirror was invented because it does a better job than the other things we'd previously seen our reflections in. Point being, a reaction to a mirror test works on the basis that until that moment the creature had no idea what it looked like. Since water is kind of important to animals, I don't think that is the case. Second thing that you touched on in the video is interest in one's own reflection, someone below mentioned a vain peacock who loved mirrors. On that basis one would expect birds of paradise to be more preoccupied with their reflection since appearance is key. If strength or offerings are the courtship test (fighting or gifts of pebbles for example) one might expect such animals to be less concerned with their own reflection. I imagine you'd also have to take account how 'playful' a species is; we know what mirrors are and know what they do but that doesn't stop us being amused/surprised when we go into a hall of mirrors.
I think there is a specialization of intelligence. Parrots and other birds do not have visual intelligence, but have grasping intelligence.
“Yep, I look cool. Now back to destruction.”
I would like to see the keas react to a type of puzzle
There are a few vids on UA-cam with them doing puzzles apparently they are up there and possibly surpass the African Grey parrot for intelligence.
I do wonder - babies already have more experience - is it possible that by showing them examples of the two worlds connecting you biased them, in a way your babies have already been biased against?
Please glue soft lines on the corners of the metal structure to preserve the bird's feet.
Anyone who has ever had a budgie will know that parrots just get used to seeing their reflection like us humans. The mirror (especially one with a bell) quickly becomes an object of enjoyment. Or in the Keas' case an object for destruction!!!
There a smart as chimpanzees. There literally the alphas of parrots
How come it can't 3d print a new beak? All…… smart & stuff? Kidding. They should fit it with a prosthetic beak. I saw an eagle with one somewhere here on youtube. Or… I think it was an eagle?
I may sound stupid not knowing that, but is that mirror reflecting full wavelength spectrum the bird can see?
Cute bord
For a proper test, it's necessary to give the animals a chance to learn how mirrors work. So you'd want to get a mirror that they cannot destroy, and affix it permanently in part of their enclosure. Once they have had a chance to thoroughly explore the mirror, then a mirror-mark test can be done. Most animals, including humans, react to a mirror the first time they see it as if they are looking at another individual. They try to touch them, talk to them, and will often look behind the mirror to try to get another view of the 'other animal.' The self-aware ones figure out what's going on later as they continue to interact with it.
seems like they wanna free the bird trapped in there? ....wild guess but how someone from the 80's would think it's a demon in the mirror if you used super flat monitors that turns into mirror when switched of :D might be wrong tho :D
they sound like Orca at times
I dont understand why the slide was going into water; why not have it onto land?
Great experiment! Thank you
It would be interesting to see whether the results would be the same for 19 month old infants if they controlled for their caregivers use of electronics. Maybe the infants are only mimicking other peoples differing levels of interest between real and screen stimuli. Also it would be good to to see whether the kea still believe in a continuous virtual and real world after a test the only gave a reward in either a real of virtual space, and then test whether they still perform the same way in a different mixed reality test. I guess I wonder how much is associative conditioning and simple probing, and how much is this belief.
Once they physically determined it was a flat packed mirror they immediately saw it as I-Kea & saw no further cause for self reflection.
I've just found your vids and loved them. Kea's warm my heart and put holes in my skirt during a visit to this enclosure 😂 Thanks so much for the entertaining videos- I hope things are great in San Diego!
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