The researchers claim that this species of parrots has the skills of three children.
Biologists from the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of veterinary medicine have proven that cockatoos the Goffin possess spatial thinking and smarter than three-year-olds.
The animals have to choose the subject so that it was in the hole of complex shape. Kakadu is not just coped with the task; to place the object in the hole, they took less attempts than many primates.
The ability to find the correspondence between the form of three-dimensional objects requires the person in many everyday and professional tasks: insert the key into the keyhole, select the screwdriver – all these actions require skill that begins to develop in the first years of a child’s life.
Austrian scientists have used a transparent box with non-symmetrical hole in one of the walls. To get a treat, the parrots had to choose a figure suitable shape and insert it into the hole so that the figurine ended up in the box without any prior training cockatoos almost immediately found a bunch of figures right to the hole and after a few attempts to insert it almost always succeed.
Shapes shapes and holes was quite difficult – from the balls to the pyramids and crosses.
Earlier it was reported that parrots destroyed about 10% of the harvest of opium poppy in the Indian state of Rajasthan was not going to stop there. They watched farmers when they cut the poppy boxes and ate all the contents, as farmers left.
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