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How do our birds react to a kea impostor?

2:45

What Happens When You Show Kea A Mirror?

3:46

Playing with the Work Platforms (and Other Things)

3:38

Bird of the Year and Other Kea News

2:30

Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous

2:23

The Story of Bruce / Kati the Kea

8:14

Saying farewell to the kea

My time with the kea has sadly come to an end as I am heading off overseas for 2022, so it is time to say farewell.
I will be starting up my own personal channel in the new year, so if you want to see what I am up to now that I have left the birds, head over to ruclips.net/user/Thisispatrickwood and subscribe!
Before I go, I wanted to give the birds a final farewell / Christmas gift, so I brought in the clothes and boots that I have been wearing while working with them for the past year and left them out for the birds to destroy!
It goes without saying, please don’t do this yourself, as even under careful supervision accidents can still happen and birds can choke on small parts, which might...

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How do our birds react to a kea impostor?

2:45

How do our birds react to a kea impostor?

Просмотров 2,7 тыс.2 года назад

For a few months now I have had a set of kea lawn ornaments that I have really wanted to see how the kea would react to. So to wrap up 2021, I bought one into the aviary just to put down in front of the birds and record their response!

What Happens When You Show Kea A Mirror?

3:46

What Happens When You Show Kea A Mirror?

Просмотров 42 тыс.2 года назад

This week we have something I have been wanting to try out for a very long time. I bought in a mirror and put it in front of the kea just to see what their first reaction would be. This could be extended into a proper mirror mark test to see if they are able to recognize themselves at all, but that is beyond what we currently have time or approval to do, so may have to wait for someone else to ...

Playing with the Work Platforms (and Other Things)

3:38

Playing with the Work Platforms (and Other Things)

Просмотров 2,3 тыс.2 года назад

Sometimes kea like to play with things we didn't really intend them to, here are a few of their favourite things to play around with when we're not looking! Consider making a donation to help protect kea in the wild! Kea Conservation Trust NZ www.keaconservation.co.nz/ South Island Wildlife Hospital www.wildlifehospital.co.nz/ Come and visit the kea! www.willowbank.co.nz/ Find out more about...

2:30

Bird of the Year and Other Kea News

Просмотров 5802 года назад

I've been off on some long overdue leave, but am now back in the aviary! Some Kea News: www.stuff.co.nz/national/kea-kids-news/300435628/kea-kids-news-the-kea-with-half-a-beak-who-uses-pebbles-to-preen-himself www.nzgeo.com/stories/bruce-finds-a-solution/

Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous

2:23

Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous

Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад

Human psychology and animal cognition have increasingly used virtual stimuli to test cognitive abilities, with the expectation that participants are ‘naive realists’, that is, that they perceive virtual environments as both equivalent and continuous with real-life equivalents. However, there have been no attempts to investigate whether nonhuman subjects in fact behave as if physical processes i...

8:14

The Story of Bruce / Kati the Kea

Просмотров 2,9 тыс.2 года назад

The attention that Bruce / Kati has been getting over the past week has been absolutely incredible. This week I wanted to sit down and talk a bit more about his story to introduce this amazing parrot to people who might just be meeting him for the first time, and share a few new insights I haven't been able to share before for people that have met previously. Read the paper here: www.nature.com...

Self‐care tooling innovation in a disabled kea (Nestor notabilis)

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Self‐care tooling innovation in a disabled kea (Nestor notabilis)

Просмотров 89 тыс.3 года назад

Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97086-w Tooling is associated with complex cognitive abilities, occurring most regularly in large-brained mammals and birds. Among birds, self-care tooling is seemingly rare in the wild, despite several anecdotal reports of this behaviour in captive parrots. Here, we show that Bruce, a disabled parrot lacking his top mandible, deliberately...

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Searching for Kea at Arthur's Pass

Просмотров 1,8 тыс.3 года назад

Just to be clear, this video was filmed before New Zealand entered its latest lockdown. For something a little different this week we're leaving the aviary for a little drive up to Arthur's Pass to see if we can find any wild kea. Music Credits: Acoustic/Folk Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported- CC BY 3.0 Consider m...

Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task

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Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task

Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад

We have a new paper out all about parrots pulling strings! It's also the first paper to come out with me included as an author since joining our lab. I was a little late getting this video ready for the actual release of the paper, but here is a little explanation of what was involved in putting this paper together. If you would like to read the full paper, you can find it here: doi.org/10.1038...

1:30

Introducing new tokens to the kea

Просмотров 4183 года назад

We're ramping up for some new experiments to start soon and that means we're introducing some new types of tokens for the birds to exchange! This will give us a bit more flexibility on the tasks we can give the birds and questions we can ask in the future! Consider making a donation to help protect kea in the wild! Kea Conservation Trust NZ www.keaconservation.co.nz/ South Island Wildlife Hosp...