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Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by throwway120385 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:56PM (#40240098)
"animal internet" is no where near as interesting as the idea that pet parrots can recognize the images on a tablet as another parrot that they are interacting with in real-time.
Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by rqtwteye on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:16PM (#40240920)
One of our foster dogs would bark and growl at dogs on TV. I am pretty sure she would have interacted with them if the TV dogs would have responded to her.
Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by a1369209993 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:51PM (#40240697)
Why wouldn't they? Humans can recognize black and white images on a 1960s-era videophone prototype as another human they are interacting with in real-time, and it's not like parrots have any significant difficulty recognizing other parrots in general.
Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by TomWhitwell on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:48PM (#40241195)
“Birds don’t see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens—their flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours” https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by ceejayoz on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:05PM (#40241368)
Passing the mirror test is pretty rare in the animal world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test). Birds aren't widely good at it. They may have similar challenges in tying a depiction of something to the 3D physical real object.
Re:Pet parrots prefer live video-calls by rqtwteye on Thursday May 02, 2024 @09:11PM (#40243019)
Must be how their visual system works. My bearded dragon generally didn’t have great eyesight but he would immediately attack when he saw himself in a mirror.