I love how the one bird sits on your shoulder and immediately starts to dismantle what you are wearing. They are definitely destroyer of objects. Very fun to watch though.
This is just Wonderful ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ You are full of Compassion for these Intelligent adorable mischievous Kiea I love there Green colour with flashing Red orange tinge of yellow Thank you so much for sharing ♥️ Yvonne Mullion Cornwall England 🏴
The modifications sound like a great idea and do look like they worked well. I hadn't even processed the water gap as an obstacle for the birds, so kudos to you guys. Seeing the birds actually sliding is awesome, even if they haven't yet done it deliberately. Given that kea minds may not lose much plasticity with age, do you have any expectations about whether juveniles or adults will discover the sliding function as recreation, first? Have you heard any kea-laughter on the slide apparatus? They seem to be enjoying tweaking each other in king-of-the-castle games there. Perhaps the slide for the kea will be sort of like having a neural net solve a problem: they'll enthusiastically use what they've been given in every other way than the expected outcome, so the equipment will be a success in every way but the one a human would choose. ...Neo is so completely parrot. Flap-flap-flap-plunk. "(Munch-munch.) Hey. Whatcha doin'?" Finished fruit splats to the ground somewhere. "Augh. My beak's sticky. Hold still while I clean it off by chewing your shirt." Wish I could ask you to give him a head-scritch for me, but that's probably not allowed. ...Actually, what IS the procedure if a kea asks a researcher for something affectionate like a head scritch?
The gap wasn’t something we really considered in that original version but it really makes a big difference with it gone. We expect the juveniles to start first, but more because they are the ones we have seen interacting with it most in general. We haven’t heard any warble calls directly on the slide yet, but we have had a few from birds in the area around the slide while we had it out. For now seeing the play behaviour on the slide is good, but it’s still early days. Neo is certainly very parrot. The one thing to remember though is that these guys are still wild animals not pets. They are happy to come over and climb all over us, but they aren’t all that fond of us reaching out and touching or scratching them. Our rules for interacting with them are no feeding them while they’re on us and no scritches.
@@AnimalMindsLab I guess it's easier not to scritch if the birds themselves don't want it. The no-food-while-on-someone rule is interesting; makes sense for keeping the kea on their platforms and not mobbing researchers for unearned treats. Yay for warbles near the slide. ^_^ I hope that you observe some directly while on the slide soon!
The no food on shoulder rule is more for the benefit of the general public than us. The birds will still jump all over us no matter what we do, but we want to minimise the association between being on people and getting food so that they don’t try to mob every poor member of the public that wanders into the aviary.
This is fascinating & adorable. Im a parrot researcher & trainer. Im studying the kea for something, & am curious about what are their knowm breeding behsviors and rituals? Can anyone explain some of that to me? And it looks like your adorable gang of thugs are well occupied and happy. This is adorable and an innovative idea.
If You haven't already seen the original waterslide video, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/7Ng31AbzbzM/w-d-xo.html
Please glue soft lines on the corners of the metal structure to preserve the bird's feet.
I love how the one bird sits on your shoulder and immediately starts to dismantle what you are wearing. They are definitely destroyer of objects. Very fun to watch though.
Thank you for the video about the beautiful kea! I love them!
This is just Wonderful ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
You are full of Compassion for these Intelligent adorable mischievous Kiea I love there Green colour with flashing Red orange tinge of yellow
Thank you so much for sharing ♥️
Yvonne Mullion Cornwall England 🏴
1:04 "Look ,hooman ,I've got a smile ,too ˢᵗᵘᵖⁱᵈ ˢⁱⁿᵃᵖˢⁱᵈ "
The modifications sound like a great idea and do look like they worked well. I hadn't even processed the water gap as an obstacle for the birds, so kudos to you guys. Seeing the birds actually sliding is awesome, even if they haven't yet done it deliberately.
Given that kea minds may not lose much plasticity with age, do you have any expectations about whether juveniles or adults will discover the sliding function as recreation, first?
Have you heard any kea-laughter on the slide apparatus? They seem to be enjoying tweaking each other in king-of-the-castle games there. Perhaps the slide for the kea will be sort of like having a neural net solve a problem: they'll enthusiastically use what they've been given in every other way than the expected outcome, so the equipment will be a success in every way but the one a human would choose.
...Neo is so completely parrot. Flap-flap-flap-plunk. "(Munch-munch.) Hey. Whatcha doin'?" Finished fruit splats to the ground somewhere. "Augh. My beak's sticky. Hold still while I clean it off by chewing your shirt."
Wish I could ask you to give him a head-scritch for me, but that's probably not allowed. ...Actually, what IS the procedure if a kea asks a researcher for something affectionate like a head scritch?
The gap wasn’t something we really considered in that original version but it really makes a big difference with it gone.
We expect the juveniles to start first, but more because they are the ones we have seen interacting with it most in general.
We haven’t heard any warble calls directly on the slide yet, but we have had a few from birds in the area around the slide while we had it out. For now seeing the play behaviour on the slide is good, but it’s still early days.
Neo is certainly very parrot. The one thing to remember though is that these guys are still wild animals not pets. They are happy to come over and climb all over us, but they aren’t all that fond of us reaching out and touching or scratching them. Our rules for interacting with them are no feeding them while they’re on us and no scritches.
@@AnimalMindsLab I guess it's easier not to scritch if the birds themselves don't want it. The no-food-while-on-someone rule is interesting; makes sense for keeping the kea on their platforms and not mobbing researchers for unearned treats.
Yay for warbles near the slide. ^_^ I hope that you observe some directly while on the slide soon!
The no food on shoulder rule is more for the benefit of the general public than us. The birds will still jump all over us no matter what we do, but we want to minimise the association between being on people and getting food so that they don’t try to mob every poor member of the public that wanders into the aviary.
Please glue soft lines on the corners of the metal structure to preserve the bird's feet.
This is fascinating & adorable. Im a parrot researcher & trainer. Im studying the kea for something, & am curious about what are their knowm breeding behsviors and rituals? Can anyone explain some of that to me?
And it looks like your adorable gang of thugs are well occupied and happy. This is adorable and an innovative idea.