• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Parrots Video Calling Their Friends To Prevent Loneliness Prefer A Live Chat

May 4, 2024 by Deborah Bloomfield

Providing stimulation for your pet can be one of the most engaging things you can do as an animal owner, whether it be exercise, puzzle games, or toys to entertain your furry friend. Parrots have been found to enjoy video calling other parrots as a way to beat loneliness, but now further research has found they enjoy live calls much more than pre-recorded videos.

Advertisement

Previous research has shown just how much pet parrots enjoy calling other birds via video, but now nine parrots have been given the choice between live and pre-recorded content on digital devices. 

Advertisement

After an initial meet-and-greet where the birds were introduced to each other online, the pets were then given access to the digital devices over 12 sessions for a total of 36 hours. Six sessions were live calls and six were pre-recorded video content.  

During a six-month period the researchers tracked the engagements of the birds on a call with another bird live or watching the pre-filmed content. The team found that the birds seemed to enjoy live calls to another bird more, were more engaged in the live chats, and spent longer using the digital devices when a live call was happening. In total the birds spent 561 minutes on live calls and only 142 minutes on the playback videos. They also triggered live calls more often.



“Some caregivers believed that their parrots were capable of differentiating between the sessions. One told us that their bird enjoyed vocalising with another live bird but quickly lost interest when there was no response to their calls during pre-recorded videos,” said Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, from the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science and the paper’s lead author, in a statement. 

Advertisement

Around half of the owners of the birds (55 percent) suggested that the birds enjoyed all the calls, suggesting they benefited from the pre-recorded footage, while 77 percent thought that they responded well to the live calls.  

Dr Hirskyj-Douglas said: “This was a small study, and we can’t draw any definite conclusions at this stage about whether the parrots were in some way aware of the differences between live and pre-recorded interactions. However, the results are compelling, and suggest that further study is definitely warranted.”

The study will be presented at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. Soccer-Premier clubs could face sanctions over South American players
  2. Biden nominee for key China export post expects Huawei to remain blacklisted
  3. New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant Are Causing Big Worries
  4. 100-Year Floods May Be Looming If We Don’t Change Our Ways

Source Link: Parrots Video Calling Their Friends To Prevent Loneliness Prefer A Live Chat

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • Unethical Experiments: When Scientists Really Should Have Stopped What They Were Doing Immediately
  • The First Humans Were Hunted By Leopards And Weren’t The Apex Predators We Thought They Were
  • Earth’s Passage Through The Galaxy Might Be Written In Its Rocks
  • What Is An Einstein Cross – And Why Is The Latest One Such A Unique Find?
  • If We Found Life On Mars, What Would That Mean For The Fermi Paradox And The Great Filter?
  • The Longest Living Mammals Are Giants That Live Up To 200 Years In The Icy Arctic
  • Entirely New Virus Detected In Bat Urine, And It’s Only The 4th Of Its Kind Ever Isolated
  • The First Ever Full Asteroid History: From Its Doomed Discovery To Collecting Its Meteorites
  • World’s Oldest Pachycephalosaur Fossil Pushes Back These Dinosaurs’ Emergence By 15 Million Years
  • The Hole In The Ozone Layer Is Healing And On Track For Full Recovery In The 21st Century, Thanks To Science
  • First Sweet Potato Genome Reveals They’re Hybrids With A Puzzling Past And 6 Sets Of Chromosomes
  • Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The “Canadian Shield”
  • Humans Are In The Middle Of “A Great Evolutionary Transition”, New Paper Claims
  • Why Do Some Toilets Have Two Flush Buttons?
  • 130-Year-Old Butter Additive Discovered In Danish Basement Contains Bacteria From The 1890s
  • Prehistoric Humans Made Necklaces From Marine Mollusk Fossils 20,000 Years Ago
  • Zond 5: In 1968 Two Soviet Steppe Tortoises Beat Humans To Orbiting Around The Moon
  • Why Cats Adapted This Defense Mechanism From Snakes
  • Mother Orca Seen Carrying Dead Calf Once Again On Washington Coast
  • A Busy Spider Season Is Brewing: Why This Fall Could See A Boom Of Arachnid Activity
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version