News Parrots taught to video call each other.

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Over for animals, not only are humans now desperately coping with nonexistent real-world relationships and interactions by indulging in online ones, we are now teaching our pets how to do that as well.

Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research

US study got owners to train their pets to contact other birds using a touchscreen tablet

www.theguardian.com

Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It

Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored

www.smithsonianmag.com

For starters, they found that the parrots took advantage of the opportunity to call one another, and they typically stayed on the call for the maximum time allowed during the experiment. They also seemed to understand that another live bird was on the other side of the screen, not a recorded bird, researchers say. Some of the parrots learned new skills from their virtual companions, including flying, foraging and how to make new sounds.

“I was quite surprised at the range of different behaviors,” co-author Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, an animal-computer interaction researcher at the University of Glasgow, tells the Guardian’s Hannah Devlin. “Some would sing, some would play around and go upside down, others would want to show another bird their toys.”

 

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now the jews go after the birds