Do Birds Know

[mistitikimikis]

Ever seen a swan hopelessly in love with a goose and making love with a goose??

[tw25rw]

Ever seen a swan hopelessly in love with a goose and making love with a goose??

Looks like a prison relationship.

[mistitikimikis]

poor goose, don't understand what's happening, almost being raped...........................

[mistitikimikis]

A seagull in a difficult position but help was available

Luckily there are always people caring for all kinds of animals.............................

[katana]

We used to have a budgerigar. Even though its brain couldn't have been bigger than a pea it was quite clever with it's own personality, always flying on us for company and wanting to interact and get attention.

Edited March 9, 2013 by katana

[Mosha]

We had a Cockatoo in Aus. It had been raised from a chick by a local farmer. This bird could imitate the ring of an Australian phone perfectly. It also knew if you were the last person out of the house and as soon as you shut the door behind you the bird would start ringing so that you would rush back in to answer the phone.

My neighbours had to change their phone often. Their African Grey would imitate the ring, then hold a one sided conversation As though she was answering the phone.

[mistitikimikis]

We had a Cockatoo in Aus. It had been raised from a chick by a local farmer. This bird could imitate the ring of an Australian phone perfectly. It also knew if you were the last person out of the house and as soon as you shut the door behind you the bird would start ringing so that you would rush back in to answer the phone.

My neighbours had to change their phone often. Their African Grey would imitate the ring, then hold a one sided conversation As though she was answering the phone.

[Goshawk]

nice pet chicken and parrot stories.... but don't mix up common mimicry & imprinting with true wild bird ingenuity - two quite different beasts altogether...

[mistitikimikis]

[sbk]

nice pet chicken and parrot stories.... but don't mix up common mimicry & imprinting with true wild bird ingenuity - two quite different beasts altogether...

Might want to rethink the parrot comment:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

Under Pepperberg’s patient tutelage, Alex learned how to use his

vocal tract to imitate almost one hundred English words, including the

sounds for all of these foods, although he calls an apple a “banerry.”

“Apples taste a little bit like bananas to him, and they look a

little bit like cherries, so Alex made up that word for them,”

Pepperberg said.

[mistitikimikis]

[Mosha]

Watching a Discovery Channel episode on Macaws in the wild. It claimed they have a memory that enables them to know when each fruit tree in their territory will be in fruit. I'd say that requires some degree of intelligence.

[mistitikimikis]

Animal cognition

Animal Intelligence: How We Discover How Smart Animals Really Are

Animal Minds

Edited March 15, 2013 by mistitikimikis

[Goshawk]

nice pet chicken and parrot stories.... but don't mix up common mimicry & imprinting with true wild bird ingenuity - two quite different beasts altogether...

Might want to rethink the parrot comment:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

nothing to rethink sbk, as an ornithologist i'm on the birds side & aint really gonna argue against 'em am i?

that particular old study that you searched google for is an interesting story, and Alex certainly is a pretty polly if it's correct at the point only where he makes up that 'word' by himself - its plausable.

i've actually heard wild starlings talking aloud in english (wasn't in a trippy dream either.. ) are they intelligent for doing so? no. However, If they start talking & responding to themselves in english without any human conditioning or training, then i get someone to pinch me..... .. ^is the expanded nub of my comment.

...new caledonian crow, among a few others, have been good 'pinch me' moments. ...

[Potosi]

What's the name of this dreadful copper and black coloured bird in Thailand? Size like a raven, long tail. Piercing screeches. Purpose of existence, to drive people mad. That bloody bird must produce more decibels than a Vuvuzela.

[isanbirder]

What's the name of this dreadful copper and black coloured bird in Thailand? Size like a raven, long tail. Piercing screeches. Purpose of existence, to drive people mad. That bloody bird must produce more decibels than a Vuvuzela.

That dreadful bird, as you call it, is a Greater Coucal. But it doesn't screech, it booms! The screeching one, not that I'd really call it a screech, is the Koel. The male is black, the female brown spotted with white.

[mistitikimikis]

Thanks! Finally able to identify him (Greater Coucal). Saw him two times in the garden (suburbs BKK) but is very afraid, so before I could take a more or less decent photo for an ID: disappeared.

Edited March 16, 2013 by mistitikimikis

[sbk]

nice pet chicken and parrot stories.... but don't mix up common mimicry & imprinting with true wild bird ingenuity - two quite different beasts altogether...

Might want to rethink the parrot comment:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

nothing to rethink sbk, as an ornithologist i'm on the birds side & aint really gonna argue against 'em am i?

that particular old study that you searched google for is an interesting story, and Alex certainly is a pretty polly if it's correct at the point only where he makes up that 'word' by himself - its plausable.

i've actually heard wild starlings talking aloud in english (wasn't in a trippy dream either.. ) are they intelligent for doing so? no. However, If they start talking & responding to themselves in english without any human conditioning or training, then i get someone to pinch me..... .. ^is the expanded nub of my comment.

...new caledonian crow, among a few others, have been good 'pinch me' moments. ...

Err "searched google for" Try read the original in National Geographic and it stuck

[Goshawk]

Err "searched google for" Try read the original in National Geographic and it stuck

can't fault you there.. it is a lovely magazine ...