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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by MichaelZuo on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:45PM (#39772933)
It’s incredible that a 90 second video of someone with a pet parrot and an iPad is more illuminating then the average paper…
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by makeitdouble on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:51PM (#39773811)
This is truely the magic of the internet.

The earnestest researcher can't go survey every parrot in every home all around the world, but parrot owners can casually expose what their own parrots do.

Reminds me of the Twitter thread where a mite researcher discovers a new species in a photo posted by an amateur photographer.

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