I am MOST excited about this video footage because it demonstrates observational learning better than I've ever been able to capture before. To actually see it in its entirety - is pretty amazing and powerful. Jinx only had ONE training session before this session (his second). So it's pretty amazing how well Morgan was able to catch on, this...

Wild birds learn everything that isn’t hard-wired into them from their parents. Everything from what is safe to eat to how to bathe to what to be afraid of is learned by watching.

Many of our companion parrots have been captive bred and have not had the advantage of having a feathered mom or dad teaching them the ins and outs of being a bird.  It makes perfect sense that our parrots learn from one another.

When I first got Theo (goffins cockatoo), she was sedentary.  She didn’t ...

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