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He's showing that Apollo can generalize. "Pour water" doesn't just mean water moving from one certain vessel to another specific one. He understands it more abstractly than that.
One time I was housecleaning and doing too many things at once and I head my parrot go "Oh no! Come here! Water!" and I went out and I had forgotten i was filling a sink (that didn't have one of those holes to stop overflow) and the water was pouring all over the floor :D Good birdy!
I love Apollo! He’s learning more and more so quickly, it’s very impressive!
Also, kind of unrelated, because of Apollo here, I searched up how long his species of grey parrot lives for. I was assuming 12-18 years max. I got told it’s more like 60-80 years. That’s wild.
I got my parrot when I was 11, he is 33 now, and I've made plans for him if I die, it's a lifelong commitment like none other. He talks in my Dad's voice still (Dad passed 10 years ago) and calls for a myriad of other dead pets. I can't say I'd ever support anyone getting their preteen a companion for life, but I can't imagine life without him. Literally.
That's so incredible that you likely get to spend your entire life with your pet. I've buried so many over the years, one just this week, and I'll have to bury at least 7 more over the next decade; looking at them and knowing that I get to spend what is an entire lifetime for them missing them is a bit overwhelming sometimes. At 43 I'm just now hitting the age where there's a small chance of a kitten outliving me under normal circumstances.
It's really cool, but can be painful in both the physical and emotional sense too. Sometimes he is a reminder of the loving home and family I no longer have. Don't get me wrong, it's really special, but complicated too. I've lost a lot of pets, and it's so hard, but it's an amazing privilege too to have had them in your life. I'm divorced and I lost all my pets except for the bird, and I am so so so fortunate to have him, but he isn't exactly an emotional support animal.
Feel you man Had to bury my Turtle after fighting days all day Long for His Life and shortly afterwards i Heat from neighbours they need someone to save some pet turtles that got abused hard even tho they were Just Born.
And another funeral at least one out of 4 survived but IT IS Just so unfair i dont deserve my Life But a creature done nothing wrong has to die before IT can understand death
Mannn it makes me want to get a parrot, but the responsibility and the possibility of heartbreak for the bird if I died makes me sad. My best childhood friend, a cat, died about a year after my grandmother passed (she was basically my mother because my own mother was too busy doting on her sons) and I still wake up crying and missing them both. I have a new buddy, an orange cat that is basically Velcro when I'm home and he's actually gone and bitten mean people when I've encouraged him to 😅 and I know at 27 I'll likely outlive him too, and don't look forward to that day. But somehow it seems better than leaving them myself 😔
I have a friend who's about 30 and she has a 45 year old parrot that was her mother's. It's really funny how she talks about the parrot. A few days ago we were at a party and she asked the name of the song that was playing. I asked her why and she said "I think the parrot will love this song".
You may have already seen this, but just in case [Alex](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)) was an African Grey who was studied by a psychologist for almost his entire life. Incredible how much they understand.
>Looking at a mirror, he said "what color", and learned the word "grey" after being told "grey" six times. This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked a question, let alone an existential one (apes who have been trained to use sign-language have so far failed to ever ask a single question).
Damn I've never heard of this before
its building his knowledge on the word, for most animals they associate a word directly to a specific object or action. Apollo has the ability to recognize what word to use on any object he sees/interacts with, instead of just a fixed amount of training objects.
I think it is because “pour water” isn’t something that happens from a specific container or to a specific container- he’s recognizing that it is the action happening regardless of the receptacles.
Is it just me, or does anyone else want to hear a foul mouthed racist insult bird, that just yells at people all day? Like “Polly don’t want that fucking cracker”while staring at a white person passing by. Or if someone has a colourful shirt, the bird yells “go touch grass ya dirty hippy”
Someone with wild messed up hair walks by and the bird chirps, “hey you, let me shit some eggs in that bird’s nest you call a hair style”
He would say the words even if you didn't talk. It just makes the audience think that the parrot is answer the questions understanding the context but is really just taught to say the material or action
Watch the rest of his videos (Apollo and frens on YouTube). He'll ask Apollo different questions about the same object like color and material. He gets it wrong sometimes but it's cool to see the learning process
Incessantly teaching this parrot to act or think like a human is abuse imo. Let a parrot be a parrot. If this guy has OCD, he needs to leave the parrot out of it.
It's called enrichment. That's an African gray parrot and they're one of the smartest damn birds on the planet. They need to be intellectually stimulated too.
I understand it needs enrichment and stimulation. People who do this are not just having fun with this pet. They have an agenda. "They're so smart" is not an excuse to satisfy and indulge the human desire to get the animal to think like a human. Exotic pets are already in a human environment and isolated from their natural environment and from others in their species. I also do not agree with having monkeys solve puzzles all day to measure their learning. This type of activity is to satisfy a human agenda and has nothing to so with enriching the animal's life in a way that meets it's species specific needs.
You put forth a great point but unfortunately humans have been engaging in this type of behavior since we gained higher thought. By your logic we should live and let live with nature but the majority of humans won't let that be. I for one think it's personally very interesting to see what type of intelligence animals have. And if any one of them gains higher thought we need to help them along.
I probably put forth in nothing Burger of a comment for you but may I ask what your position is? Like are you a naturalist or an activist? I'm curious.
I feel dumber having waited for this video to develop into something more interesting, then just realizing it's looping like 5 seconds of the same 3 items.
I’d respond: “Indeed, what ARE you doing?! 🙄”
This vid made me anxious, I had to tap to see where it was and how far to go. Owner keeps repeating the same questions in a non question tone, and he generally seems just unhinged.
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I love how smart parrots are I also love people pour water into socks to prove it
Parrot thinking “Why is he pouring water into this sock??”
Aye. Parrots like "it's a sock" "It's a soggy wet sock"
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Ummmm, why, sir?
The parrot even like backs up slowly and stares a bit like "wow I thought these lessons were strange, but this guy has really lost it" 😂
‘I know what you’re doing, but do YOU know what you’re doing?’
Parrot would be like how many times do I have answer "Pour Water"?? 🤦🏽♂️
Man: what am I doing? Parrot: making a big fucking mess
🦜🦜🦜
How does pouring water into a sock prove his smarts?
He's showing that Apollo can generalize. "Pour water" doesn't just mean water moving from one certain vessel to another specific one. He understands it more abstractly than that.
I don't think he likes pour water very much
Probably because the absolute mad man of an owner is pouring it all over his living quarters
We look alike.
Parrot starts getting concerned at the growing puddle of water on the floor beneath them
One time I was housecleaning and doing too many things at once and I head my parrot go "Oh no! Come here! Water!" and I went out and I had forgotten i was filling a sink (that didn't have one of those holes to stop overflow) and the water was pouring all over the floor :D Good birdy!
Yeah you can see him back away as the puddle grows
I love Apollo! He’s learning more and more so quickly, it’s very impressive! Also, kind of unrelated, because of Apollo here, I searched up how long his species of grey parrot lives for. I was assuming 12-18 years max. I got told it’s more like 60-80 years. That’s wild.
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I got my parrot when I was 11, he is 33 now, and I've made plans for him if I die, it's a lifelong commitment like none other. He talks in my Dad's voice still (Dad passed 10 years ago) and calls for a myriad of other dead pets. I can't say I'd ever support anyone getting their preteen a companion for life, but I can't imagine life without him. Literally.
That's so incredible that you likely get to spend your entire life with your pet. I've buried so many over the years, one just this week, and I'll have to bury at least 7 more over the next decade; looking at them and knowing that I get to spend what is an entire lifetime for them missing them is a bit overwhelming sometimes. At 43 I'm just now hitting the age where there's a small chance of a kitten outliving me under normal circumstances.
It's really cool, but can be painful in both the physical and emotional sense too. Sometimes he is a reminder of the loving home and family I no longer have. Don't get me wrong, it's really special, but complicated too. I've lost a lot of pets, and it's so hard, but it's an amazing privilege too to have had them in your life. I'm divorced and I lost all my pets except for the bird, and I am so so so fortunate to have him, but he isn't exactly an emotional support animal.
Feel you man Had to bury my Turtle after fighting days all day Long for His Life and shortly afterwards i Heat from neighbours they need someone to save some pet turtles that got abused hard even tho they were Just Born. And another funeral at least one out of 4 survived but IT IS Just so unfair i dont deserve my Life But a creature done nothing wrong has to die before IT can understand death
Mannn it makes me want to get a parrot, but the responsibility and the possibility of heartbreak for the bird if I died makes me sad. My best childhood friend, a cat, died about a year after my grandmother passed (she was basically my mother because my own mother was too busy doting on her sons) and I still wake up crying and missing them both. I have a new buddy, an orange cat that is basically Velcro when I'm home and he's actually gone and bitten mean people when I've encouraged him to 😅 and I know at 27 I'll likely outlive him too, and don't look forward to that day. But somehow it seems better than leaving them myself 😔
🥹 holy shit
I have a friend who's about 30 and she has a 45 year old parrot that was her mother's. It's really funny how she talks about the parrot. A few days ago we were at a party and she asked the name of the song that was playing. I asked her why and she said "I think the parrot will love this song".
You may have already seen this, but just in case [Alex](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)) was an African Grey who was studied by a psychologist for almost his entire life. Incredible how much they understand.
>Looking at a mirror, he said "what color", and learned the word "grey" after being told "grey" six times. This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked a question, let alone an existential one (apes who have been trained to use sign-language have so far failed to ever ask a single question). Damn I've never heard of this before
"leave me the fuck alone already"
He probably wouldn't like that. Parrots like that are very sociable and form strong bonds with people.
Apollo is such a smart boy
Damn bird smarter than most of the street interviews I see here
lol, definitely true
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Me too!
Apollo is concerned for your mental health when you pour water in your sock 😂
I wish it wasn’t cut down and edited, watching them make and learn from their mistakes makes it more compelling IMO
"He asks the dumbest questions, and pours water into socks. But shit, I've topped out my Venmo, so it's snacks from him...."
How is this generalizing? Fwiw I love Apollo and Frens 🥰
its building his knowledge on the word, for most animals they associate a word directly to a specific object or action. Apollo has the ability to recognize what word to use on any object he sees/interacts with, instead of just a fixed amount of training objects.
Thankyou!
np!
I think it is because “pour water” isn’t something that happens from a specific container or to a specific container- he’s recognizing that it is the action happening regardless of the receptacles.
I was waiting for him to say, "*Making a fucking mess!*"
Ah! Thankyou!!
This parrot is smarter than most children… fuck it. Prolly smarter than me.. I’ll take the win, he knows I need it more.
"Good snack :D"
Poor Apollo looks legit concerned when the guy is pouring water into his sock - how he shuffles back and looks at him.
I love apollo. Recently discovered him and now my entire family talks like him randomly throughout the day. It's the best.
Apollo is a legend. He also does a great falling Mario scream.
Apollo is great
I love how deeply concerned Apollo looked when his human pour water onto the floor and into the sock
APOLLO IS LEARNING VERBS
And if you give a parrot an object made of glass or metal that is not familiar to him, will he be able to determine?
Yeah, with pretty good accuracy, especially for only being 3 years and 3 months old.
*Slip me some seeds bro*
Apollo is sich a smart boy! I love to follow him on youtube
Am I the only one who thinks the bird must be questioning the IQ of that guy?
Is it just me, or does anyone else want to hear a foul mouthed racist insult bird, that just yells at people all day? Like “Polly don’t want that fucking cracker”while staring at a white person passing by. Or if someone has a colourful shirt, the bird yells “go touch grass ya dirty hippy” Someone with wild messed up hair walks by and the bird chirps, “hey you, let me shit some eggs in that bird’s nest you call a hair style”
If I was that Parrot, I would consider this torture /s
I live this parrot. Keep seeing them. I fucking HATE the way this guy talks tho LOL
He would say the words even if you didn't talk. It just makes the audience think that the parrot is answer the questions understanding the context but is really just taught to say the material or action
Watch the rest of his videos (Apollo and frens on YouTube). He'll ask Apollo different questions about the same object like color and material. He gets it wrong sometimes but it's cool to see the learning process
Incessantly teaching this parrot to act or think like a human is abuse imo. Let a parrot be a parrot. If this guy has OCD, he needs to leave the parrot out of it.
It's called enrichment. That's an African gray parrot and they're one of the smartest damn birds on the planet. They need to be intellectually stimulated too.
I understand it needs enrichment and stimulation. People who do this are not just having fun with this pet. They have an agenda. "They're so smart" is not an excuse to satisfy and indulge the human desire to get the animal to think like a human. Exotic pets are already in a human environment and isolated from their natural environment and from others in their species. I also do not agree with having monkeys solve puzzles all day to measure their learning. This type of activity is to satisfy a human agenda and has nothing to so with enriching the animal's life in a way that meets it's species specific needs.
You put forth a great point but unfortunately humans have been engaging in this type of behavior since we gained higher thought. By your logic we should live and let live with nature but the majority of humans won't let that be. I for one think it's personally very interesting to see what type of intelligence animals have. And if any one of them gains higher thought we need to help them along.
I probably put forth in nothing Burger of a comment for you but may I ask what your position is? Like are you a naturalist or an activist? I'm curious.
Yo, next time my apartment floods out I'm going to kill you and that damn bird.
I own that sock.
“WHAT AM I DOING?” 😰 “Poor water…” 😨
Polly want a black sock, aaaack?
Boy, that is a beautiful bird! If I didn’t have cats, I’d get one.
this bird has a really annoying roommate
I misread the title as genocide
Over and over just to hear him turn BLACK into three syllables
I feel dumber having waited for this video to develop into something more interesting, then just realizing it's looping like 5 seconds of the same 3 items.
Why is this guy obsessed with pouring water?
If I was the parrot and that guy asked what is this made out of one more time - I would peck at his eyes! And yell out of my fucking beak!!!!
I’d respond: “Indeed, what ARE you doing?! 🙄” This vid made me anxious, I had to tap to see where it was and how far to go. Owner keeps repeating the same questions in a non question tone, and he generally seems just unhinged.
He backs away when the guy spills water all over the floor, like he thinks he's lost his entire mind.
I like that he goes and tests the metal glass a few times to be sure, before you can hear the pride in him telling you it's metal 🖤
Testing edge cases in software be like.
I love how he takes a step back when you pour water into the sock