Can WILD Cockatoos use TOOLS?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Over the past 2 years I've been testing the intelligence of wild cockatoos using custom designed puzzles - but I've always wondered, can they learn to use tools? Or do they carry the best tool around with them already!?
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I think one other issue with these experiments is that in previous puzzles, you did teach them that sticks need to be thrown away to progress. So, they continue that behaviour. Throwing away the tool before realising you turned the rules around 180 degrees.
Maybe if the tool is another material or something could make them pause to think why you swapped the material. Maybe seeing humans use the tools to get seeds might help.. I don't know...
Interesting to see these anyway. :)
This was my thought as well. Throwing away the tool had been the solution so far :)
He could try changing the colour, material etc, but in reality, cockies just love throwing things. They do it with branches in trees all the time, cut them off & drop them just for fun. Probably needs to put the "tool" onto a chain or rope (short one so they can't get tangled in it), but even then I think they will just dispose of it, it just doesn't compare to their beak. To them sticks are for destroying, not using
Get a metal rod it will bend if they try to bite it but it could work as a tool
@@takumi2023 but in reality, if they can bend metal rods with their beak, they really don't need them as tools do they - and they can bend them with their beaks, I spent ages attaching food dishes & toys around my home, using 1.75mm wire, which was the thickest I could bend with my pliers & cockies took great pleasure in unbending it all & pulling all the toys & bowls off, just for fun - then of course stealing them all as usual, one of these days I'm actually going to have my phone/camera with me & manage to take a photo or video of a cocky sitting in the top of a gumtree, holding one of my bowls full of food in his foot, having a nice relaxing meal at the top of the tree lol.
They just don't need metal tools with beaks so powerful
Angus, are you familiar with the experiment involving New Caledonian crows _crafting_ a tool, before using it? It involves a transparent tube standing vertically with a "basket" at the bottom containing a treat. The basket has a handle and could be lifted out, but for this you'd need to grab onto the handle and it's too deep down the tube for them to reach it with their beak. One thing they have available is thin pieces of metal wire, like piano wire but much softer. They are *straight* and can't be used to grab the basket. The crow would hold one end in its beak and push the other end against a hard surface to _bend_ the wire, effectively creating a J shape. It then lowered the hook portion into the tube and raised the basket with its treat. To be clear: this crow ("Betty") had never been trained to do this or shown how to bend a wire, although it had used hooks before.
There's footage of it on UA-cam, search for: "Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows". There's also a 2002 research paper with the same title.
I think there’s a slight misconception about tool use as a hallmark for intelligence. It’s not that they’ll use a tool instead of their own natural abilities that matters. It’s that they’ll use or improvise a tool when their own natural abilities aren’t enough. That’s what the puzzles should test for.
Damn, I love when you upload a video about these birds.
You genuinely care for them, and they seem happy to participate in your little experiments (That small dance @7:33 so cute).
Thank you for sharing your kindness and ingenuity with us all!
I love the little bird toy at the end.
It's not just tool use. Humans make tools whose only purpose is to build other tools. Animals might use a hammer, but only humans will build a machine whose only purpose is to forge hammers.
Also, that electric drill works as a screwdriver too. That's why it has a big knob around the chuck.
During my time delivering I witnessed a wild crow using a stick as a tool. It was the top of a traffic light that had deep grooves in it that kept the food just out of reach. The groves opened at the sides, so the crow just needed to push the food to get it out of the grooves. I think starting with just a grove too small for their feet they need to push food out of would help them make that connection that a stick would be helpful for them.
Good to see that you're still edifying the flying bolt cutters in all manner of how to get the tasty treats. I loved seeing Popeye's little dance of pride when he successfully defeated your puzzle in the unintended method.
i have a cockatoo... and he is dumb as hell verbally, can only say "hello cockatoo", but tool wise, he is super smart. He knows he can move the bottom bars of his tray, so he does, some times he just bites it in a way that moves it, cuz hes so strong, and hes fast at it too. He will also use his sticks to pry it open..... most of the time he dosnt do it right, but he can, and does some times, and even when he dosnt, he knows hes for sure using the stick as a tool. Some times, he will jam the sticks in the bars soo hard, that we humans have trouble pulling them out. He also always tries to combine this little metal sauce cup he has, with the sticks, some times i think hes trying to make a spear because he tries to put the metal cup, on the end of the stick....... maybe im just seeing things, but hes defiantly trying to do something by combining the 2 objects.
also, my cockatoo would just destroy every one of the tools/puzzles you showed, regardless of if he figured it all out, destroying is his favorite thing to do.
Watching these birds try to solve this puzzle is like watching Arin Hanson try to solve a puzzle in a videogame meant for children.
That's awesome that they trust you and you can interact with them.
Yeah, why wield a chopstick, when you can also utterly destroy whatever gets in your way? Amazing how quickly they utterly ruined that wooden crate. Great video again, Angus. Thanks for sharing.
Loved popeyes lil happy dance
He is an absolute cutie!
Fascinating how animals have adapted their bodies to aid their lives- these beautiful cockatoos are a perfect example and thrilling to watch them figure things out. Reminds me of myself as a small kid breaking toys open, then learning how to open them non-destructively to see how they worked. Never found any candy inside them though.
And this is one of the many reasons why I love birbs!!
you are right i rather a Cockatoo overlord than a robot one!!!
the cockatoo rangers always foiling your plans!
Alt title: funny plastic dude gets outsmarted by a bunch of birbs
I love this series of videos! Please keep them up!
There's a bird under the name of butcher bird or a loggerhead shrike. They use spikes to impale their prey, like how we use hooks to hang up meat
now it's obvious, Popeye is a Hackatoo :D
Doing that is so essential to their survival, they probably feel good when they are ripping wood apart. All of the birds without that compulsion were weeded out.
7:33 StUbId HuMaN, you CAN'T expect this~
First time your channel recommend by the almighty algorithm. Glad it happened. I guess because I watched the squirrel course video.
What about a puzzle that requires a tool (such as a stick) to solve, then show them how to solve it with a stick, since the video with the bin puzzle hints at learning through observation. Then the next day, put the puzzle on the balcony again but without a stick, requiring them to find a tool to use?
I'm assuming yes because corvids has been observer using tools and Cockatoos appear to have a similar level of intelligence.
Oh hey, I use the same kind of seed for the cockies here;
Love those birds. Thanks for making the video.
If you could give these birds a keyboard and mouse, I’m sure they’d be great bug testers
I wonder just how it felt to see Popeye tear that screw out within 10 seconds of approaching your "treasure chest".
The pine is pretty soft so I think I over torqued that one, trust him to find the weakness instantly though haha.
The first thing they do is take the stick and throw it away. This looks like learned behaviour from when they had to remove pegs to get to the food. They just think 'in this place, wooden sticks need to be removed to get to food'.
Cockatoo ASMR
Who's testing who? He did use a tool, his beak. Given another few minutes he'd have been eating your seeds while you lament your 5 dollar loss. Gotta love these birds!!!
Absolutely loved this video. Great content. Keep it up. Happy Holidays!!!!
I enjoy the cockatoo videos
I'm not kidding, I've seen barramundi use bait as a tool to catch food
I love your cockatoos videos!
We have an expression in the consumer design industry. The problem with foolproofing is fools are so ingenious!
wood is no barrier to cockies. If you feed em for a while and then stop, they will pull your woodwork to bits
I love your videos!
This video is all that is good in youtube
Don't let the cockatoos know you store seeds in your home. ;) They might chew their way inside!
Epic ❤ Thank you very much!
7:31 Giggity Giggity
Behold the power of a fully evolved Sulfur Crested Jerkbird!
Do the Cockatoos create too much noise for you at night?
"What is intelligence?"
Barbarian: A dump stat
very cool content!
The cockatoos don't need any tools, they've got two dexterous claws and a powerful beak, that's better than tools!
Are you able to do the mirror test on an Australian magpie? We all know the Eurasian magpie passes it, but since they're corvids and ours are artamids, it'd be interesting to compare their intellects (or at least observe their reaction to a mirror).
I've never seen magpies attack their reflections on car windshields and side-mirrors before, unlike their dim-witted namesakes, the magpie-larks... 🙄
Can they use a 3D printer, though?
They would probably be helpful pulling prints off the print bed 😅
Wow!
man they have that hacking mentality
I like how this is meant to be a 3D print channel, but instead it's a cockatoo channel.
It can be both
@@MakersMuse Both is good.
This could be super helpful for scientists and zoo keepers to study how the birbs problem solve.
Have you seen a Gumi, a laughing red parrot in Japan? Searched by Gumi here on UA-cam
@@MakersMuse yeah but one is alot faker then the other lol
Chewing on the wood also helps keep their beaks trimmed. Beaks are like fingernails, they continue to grow. So if you have a captive bird it’s important to make sure they have toys they can chomp and destroy.
That's a really important point! I can highly recommend making pine boxes in that case, they really enjoyed chewing it.
Sorry, in an attempt to delete my statement I seem to have deleted Makersmuse comment. Basically, it said it was an interesting idea and that he could give them pine boxes to chew as they liked the wood.
@@caroledwards1182you can't delete other people's comments. You can make it so that you yourself can't see it, but everyone else can still see it.
@@echo_is_probably_sleeping Yes exactly they chew stuff to keep beak trim.
@@MakersMuse They actually tend to like Aussie native woods better than pine. They also tend to love gumnuts that they can get seeds from with chewing
These and mark Rober's squirrel videos are my favorite "maker vs nature" videos. You both have created a new genre.
Not "vs" but "and" - maker and nature. They are not playing against but with one another to put it in a more constructive wording.
@@cls9474 naw, "vs" is very much the theme and there's nothing wrong with it. Just some creative competition among earthlings for our viewing pleasure 😉
nature wins every time
"with"
@@cls9474 no, makers muse vs mark rober.
Angus, we are gonna need to make them a ride on battle bot that shoots nerf gun bullets at squirrels.
Seeing how quickly and casually they destroyed the last puzzle I was like "omg how does anyone let these forces of destruction live in their house?"
With proper training they are quite ok :)
My aunt has a Congo African Grey. Several doors in her house don't have corners any more!
@@RedHeadForester haha, our galah actually really behaves, he has plenty of toys to destroy, and no he is not caged all day, actually only in his cage when its bedtime.
42nd 👍
My Angel needs to be in her cage, or closely supervised. She will destroy anything, and even chew on electrical wires!
when your cockatoo starts turning up his beak at tools that aren't Wiha, Knipex, or Wera, you'll know you have achieved the highest level of intelligence: tool snobbery
I'd be more concerned about them flying off with mine! 😂
@@MakersMuse wait. they not take your tools. you're safe.. they just 3D print their own.... with your kit 😬😲
@@MakersMuse I just spat out my drink laughing at that! My wild ones constantly steal my bowls i use to feed them. It's actually rather funny seeing a cocky sitting high in a tree, holding a plastic bowl in it's foot, enjoying dinner. I have no doubt they would steal your tools if they could get hold of them & they are light enough for them to carry
btw did you see or did anyone tell you about insider business stealing your content for their video on cockies opening bins without giving you credit? I'm looking in the comments to see if there's a comment about it, haven't found one so far, numerous on that video from people unimpressed with them using your content without credit & letting people know you're the source
The real question is: "Can humans create a puzzle that wild cockatoos can't break?"
Honestly it's pretty difficult to !
This is so interesting. Also, I had to laugh so hard when the birds started deconstructing the bowl right away, because they know destruction is usually the quickest way into something :D Much fun!!!
I'd say effective problem solving is a sign of intelligence.
And since the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, the most effective strategy is simply removing any obstacles on that line.
Also, there appears to be a correlation between species' intelligence and species' proclivity to play for play's sake. I read a paper that flat out postulated an evolutionary interplay between species' seeking "having fun" and intelligence.
So might as well enjoy the removal of any obstacles ;)
it's the same thing they do when nesting.
Nest/tree hollow too small? Not a problem, just enlarge it, that's what beaks are for :)
Hole to access food too small, not a problem, just enlarge it, that's what beaks are for :)
@UCt1tt4_4tZS7g2PgYweHgEg yeah any animal who exhibits traits like being extremely social, uses tools, and playful are usually extremely intelligent like apes, parrots, and dolphins. i think the reason humans stand out is because of their very specific strait that makes them engineer their environment to compensate with their lack of significant physical traits. the orcas are extremely strong, while parrots can fly. humans have no impressive traits beyond tool use so they specialized with it.
The chopstick probably wasn't a good idea because it resembles the pegs too much from the previous puzzles.
Your nature series is totally absorbing and fun to watch ... toes and thumbs up!
Thanks! They're so fun to interact with
I think they are even smarter than you do. They know that if they solve the puzzle too easily, the "gravy train" stops as you go away to edit your video. But if they almost solve it, come close enough to tempt you, you'll come up with another iteration and more seeds. They have got you trained by using their greatest tool of all....their brains!! No disrespect intended, Angus. These are fascinating videos.
It’s the old psychology joke. One rat says to another: “Boy, have I got this guy trained! Every time I press this lever he gives me a piece of cheese.”
Me too think smarter than you
I love watching these cockatoo training videos I used to watch them with my family, much love to you and your cockatoos
I love these videos, I cant wait to see these Cockatoos coding with python in couple of years.
" coding with python" in my mind, that's rather a sign of masochism, not intelligence. But... meh... I'm not judging.
- 7:52 But that's just it, that's why Popeye's trick of rocking the platform with his beak is perfect, he understands the concept now, so it's an incremental move to learning to move it with a tool once he's unable to reach it with his beak. 😉👍
- 8:42 Humans like to think they're smarter than animals, but this is why superstitions exist.
- 10:36 Angus thinking he's testing the birds but the birds are testing his puzzle-making skills.
(Oh, and I've seen several videos on mainstream news channels about them running amok in Australia and opening garbage-bins and such. I always chuckle that Angus is the cartoon-villain responsible for that. 😂)
@@I.____.....__...__ Actually, if you dig around his earlier videos, one of the earlier bird ones was inspired by that news wave. Initially (and it's been a while, I could be wrong), I think he tried to create a bird-proof bin... then just kept trying to see how they responded to his challenges.
Everybody (worried about AI taking over the world)
Maker's Muse: Player 3 has just entered the game.
maybe I should ask it for more cockatoo puzzle ideas haha
@@MakersMuse Yes! More cockatoo videos please!
Nice to see your face it feels like we don't get a lot of maker's muse content lately 😊
Tbh even if a human was presented with a problem they were supposed to approach completely differently than how theyve solved problems their whole life they would probably "fail" 99% of the time.
Like what?
Now I want to make water bottles with reverse cap
me in the morning: "how the heck "factory" crows managed to eat my turkey on balcony (Siberia. winter. balcony is second freezer)?? it was in: 1st - old =now-unrepairable-defunct= fridge (yep. in winter it's like it never broke), 2nd - in Big Metal Bucket, 3rd - in two layers of cloth and two layers of cellophane!!"
me in evening: "oh wow, cockatoos are so smart!!"
I don't know why, but I could only hear Edweena in Dylan Moran's voice, mocking the name....
Also, I love the "WHAT? You wanna make something of it? Yeah, you better sit back down..." Look one of the birds gives after each demolished nibble
be cool if someone would try this with corvids. some crow species have shown adaptations in their beak shape that allow them to use tools like sticks better.
but I've never heard of wild crows just chilling with people like these cockatoos.
Corvids are VERY clever, at least on par if not more so than cockatoos. They have demonstrated understanding of water displacement in some captive studies (dropping rocks into a tube to bring the food up higher). I've met some pretty chill crows, but yeah the cockatoos are way more sociable.
There is a crow near my work that I have occasionally tossed something to eat and I'm pretty sure they recognize me as they always come closer when they see me. But they might just do that with all people, I don't know.
@@ADBBuild There have been some experiments about that, and it does seem like they recognize specific individuals, including individual humans. They seem to even be able to communicate their opinion to their fellow birds in some cases, getting similar responses from birds that have never met the person the first bird has learned about.
@@MakersMuse One of Aesop's Fables is actually about that very thing. Even the Ancient Greeks had figured out how smart corvids are.
This reminds me of Mark Robers's type of content.
I liked your comment
I gave my husband the "Cliff's Notes" version of this video, and after getting a few chuckles, he made the comment,
"You realize that what he's doing it is the starting premise of a new horror movie, right?"
Cue dramatic pose, and "Planet of the Cockatoos"
Yes, he's a derp, but admit it, a few of you flinched. =grin=
This Christmas came early! Thanks for posting another Popeye video. They are quick learners (all parrots an cockatoos) and it is so easy to teach them bad habits in captivity by accidentilly reinforcing behaviour. And I think you're right about usng tools in captivity - by boredome or by availability. Or a combination of both.
"And so you can see that we've trained the human to keep putting seed out for us by consistently responding to his behaviour of putting silly toys on the balcony with the reward of our majestic attention"
the Cockatoo videos are the best!
I love how it took them all of two seconds to choose violence while solving the puzzle lol
the flying sassy boltcutters are BACK let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
They never left!! haha
I think he finding a way to get the seeds without a stick was way more impressive than it would be with him using the stick
I swear, when we go extinct, these birds will take over.
Another awesome video Angus. Mother nature, in all her forms, never fails to prove us wrong. I agree, I don't like to see animals in captivity either.
A cockatoo tool use researcher here.
We too are forced from time to time to change the design of our apparatuses, so that they can't destroy them or find alternative solutions that we didn't expect (they are pretty good at outsmarting us in that way).
I just came to praise you for the video!
Australia is wild man... flying, screeching bolt cutters destroying your garden wood, but hey at least it's not a venomous giant spider on fire I guess
They chew to wear their beak down as it's continually growing.
If they didn't wear the beak down, then it would grow up into their head, just like rodentia.
I've been bitten by a wild cockatoo, through leather glove, and man did it hurt
I think it was just trying to pull my hand closer, since it was eating, but my arm was getting sore, so it was getting lower
Time to once again enjoy watching an Australian man manipulate wild parrots into making UA-cam content. Definitely one of my favorite series on the platform
What an incredible animal!
Their face comes with jaws of life!
If they chip their beak or break it, would it grow back?
It grows continuously, so they actually need to chew things to keep it from growing too much!
For parrots it also depends on the nature and severity of injury. If the beak breaks through an accident or predator, the beak may not grow back completely :( some birds can still survive with somewhat damaged beaks but often they may require special softer diets and may need to kept at rescue centres. There are some amazing vets who perform beak reconstruction surgeries on birds! Beyond fascinating!! Not sure about their scope of work on wild birds though.
As a Synth guy, I Love watching your synth setup slowly grow/evolve in the background.
Are the little grooves in the vids your synth jams? They're really good.
I feel if the tools were attached it would be used. Then I guess it wouldn’t be a tool. All I know is Edwina has YOU trained because we she pecks on the door you bring seed. 😂
Yeah, I want to try a "maze" kind of puzzle where the key is attached and see where they go with that! Edweena absolutely has me wrapped around her finger haha
@@MakersMuse My grandmother used to feed the squirrels in her yard. Edweena flying into the door reminded me of the time I had been staying with my grandparents after a move. In the morning, I came upstairs (guest room in the basement) and as I passed the back door, I heard a knock. The door was open, the screen door closed, so I turned and saw... nothing.
I shrugged, started to turn into the kitchen - and heard another knock. This time I was conscious enough to determine the direction of the sound, and looked down. There was a little squirrel who, once my attention had finally been gotten, hopped about a foot back from the door and looked at me expectantly.
"Grandma, you're squirrels are wanting breakfast."
"You know where the peanuts are."
And so the squirrels got to eat before I did. Grandma had priorities.
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Why do I feel like you're training an army? 👀
Mark Rober's squirrels could never.
TBH I'd love to see them both take on the same obstacle course to see who wins 😂
Popeye and prince in the first puzzle be like, who needs sticks when you have STROONG BEAKS
Back when I was volunteering with WIRES. You learn to bag them quick and DON"T let them grab onto your soft bits.
These HUGE beaks are designed to break through hardened wood to get grubs and hollows for nesting sites. One chomp and you might want to get ER to reattach your fingers. XD
7:37 Cockies are like playtesters, they will always find new ways to break something that is unintended by the game designers.
I hope you get in touch with the UNSW and USyd on their cockatoo/birds thriving in urban environment research project. They have been busy documenting learnt behaviours of Cockatoos getting into bins and breaking into things for a while now.
Check out the UA-cam channel called Bird Tricks for examples of positive reinforcement training.
Fyi cockatoos need to constantly chew wood to keep their beaks in shape. Also their feet are sensitive, they can feel grubs deep in the wood and even they do, they start hacking away for extra protein
Karen Pryor wrote something interesting in her book "Reaching the Animal Mind" To paraphrase, she essentially says that maybe we shouldn't discount these behaviors that have been learned in captivity. She poses the idea that if the animal has the creativity to make approximations of the behavior that you can click for in free shaping, or if they even give you an opportunity to outright capture the behavior, then they clearly already had a potential for it; they already had the cognitive ability.
To help clarify for those who aren't familiar with the terms "free shaping" or "capturing," I'd like to clarify what they mean to help explain the significance of an animal offering behavior, or approximations of behavior, for capturing/free shaping.
Free shaping means that you provide no assistance or direction to the animal, you merely sit back with treats and a clicker and click for approximations of the goal behavior (each click is followed by a reinforcer, like food). Each time they clearly understand one approximation, you raise criteria to ask for another approximation closer to the final behavior. For example, you might click for looking at a stick, then approaching it, then touching it, then biting it, then picking it up, etc. The important thing is that the animal offers the behavior - they pick behaviors to attempt, all you do is reward them for picking behaviors that you're looking for.
This will influence their behavior, since they're getting rewarded for some offers and not others, but nevertheless the animal is thinking up behavior to offer on their own. For example, if you've taught them to touch a stick, then raise criteria to biting it (so they no longer get treats for just touching it), then they have to independently try to figure out what else they can do to make a click happen. It's their own creativity, their own choice, you just funnel down the endless possibilities of creativity to one set of criteria that will result in what the animal is looking for (in this case, seeds).
Capturing is when the animal offers the behavior all by themselves in its complete form, and you can reward them for it. For example, it's really tricky to teach a dog to take a deep breath on cue, at least partly because some dogs seem intent on holding their breath or taking small, subtle breaths when they're looking at you for a treat. A common, and very effective, solution is to have some treats on you as you go about your day and click/treat every time you see your dog take a deep or obvious breath. You're capturing the final goal behavior, not approximations of it. After a while, the dog realizes that deep breaths is something that makes treats happen, and you'll find that they offer the behavior on their own, even in a dedicated training session where before they held their breath.
Coming soon: "Can I train wild cockatoos to recognize money?" and "Can I train wild cockatoos to mug people?" :D
Question: Can WILD Cockatoos use TOOLS?
Answer: NO.
Pourquoi, ici en Europe, nous n'avons pas de Cacatoès ? On n'a que des pigeons 😒😢
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