If you’ve ever had to endure an automated phone line, you may have wished you could just speak to a real person. New research from the University of Glasgow suggests that parrots feel the same way.
She said: “Our previous research had shown that parrots seem to benefit from the opportunity to video-call each other which could help reduce the mental and physical toll that living in domestic situations can take on them. To conduct the research, parrots and their owners were given tablet devices to explore the potential for video chats to remedy the loneliness that the intelligent creatures - highly sociable in the wild - can often suffer in captivity.
Six of the sessions put the parrots in touch with another live bird, while the other six connected them to a pre-recorded video of their digital pal. After each session, their caregivers recorded the birds’ reactions to the interactions. The birds’ caregivers reported that they seemed more engaged in the live calls, often moving closer to the screen to see the other bird and mirroring each others’ behaviour. In contrast, the caregivers reported their birds seemed less interested in pre-recorded calls, with some birds quickly flying away from the screen or refusing to start calls altogether.
“The appearance of ‘liveness’ really did seem to make a difference to the parrots’ engagement with their screens. Their behaviour while interacting with another live bird often reflected behaviours they would engage in with other parrots in real life, which wasn’t the case in the pre-recorded sessions.
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