Getting called “bird brain” is quite the compliment then, huh? That was awesome!!!
bonnie 10/14/2010 7:33 am
great video but sorry to me i can see why the parrot can do it and humans cant if you think about it. there is no smartest as macaws have strong beaks which is what it used to pull the links apart. of course unless you are super strong a normal person cannot do it.
Ed Kramer 10/14/2010 9:20 am
I hope that shiny metal isn’t zinc coated – toxic!
ines 10/14/2010 10:08 am
parrots are lovely. I have two ones; one is an amazons real, the other is an amazons dufresnaia and they sing, dance and speak many words. They are like children and they offer love, friendship, company and I feel that I am very lucky to have them.
Vickie 10/14/2010 12:03 pm
I have a Quaker who I have a hard time keeping in his cage. For every new idea I come up with to keep his cage door closed he figures out how to open it. He watches me intently each time I secure the cage and each time I unlock it. Then, eventually I come home and he has escaped. Thinking of renaming him Houdini.
Tinz 10/14/2010 1:32 pm
I agree with bonnie. I was looking at this exact puzzle at work the other day and my first thought was that Chucky would love taking that apart! (He is my Sulpher Crested Cockatoo). He would just open the gap to get the metal pieces apart lol. My fingers are certainly not strong enough to do that!
Happy 10/14/2010 1:59 pm
Bonnie and Tinz,
These puzzles are not solved by using strength. They are solved with strategy. The birds and humans playing with these solve them by utilizing the interaction between pieces, not by augmenting the parts. Neither piece is bent to get them apart. That’s why they’re puzzles, not strength challenges or stuck pieces of metal. Yes, bending them would get them apart, but that is breaking the puzzle, not solving it.
plastcbrane 10/14/2010 4:17 pm
Yeah, it is using the strength of its beak to push the peace through the gap of the other one. Watch it the first time and you see it do this.Its not that they aren’t extremely intelligent, they are, its that we tend to sensationalize things just a bit..
Kristin 10/14/2010 6:03 pm
You are missing the fact that the bird doesn’t “pull” it apart with force. It is a trick with how the metal pieces are interlocked and once you have learned the way they come apart you’ve solved the puzzle. Pretty amazing bird! I have a couple of these puzzles and each time I pick them up I forget how I solved them the last time I played with them. Never thought of letting my bird try.
TheXtremeDude 10/14/2010 11:12 pm
My Greenwing is constantly taking his rather well buildt stainless steel cage apart. The other day he removed the entire top portion giving it a “convertible” look.
He has even opened and removed a padlock that secured his water bottle…I swear it was properly locked. He just beat it to death until it popped open! I have about six padlocks on his cage now..securing feed dishes, doors, swings, etc.
I use foraging type toys with his food inside. He defeats most of them very quickly and the few that he can’t figure out quickly enough…he just destroys!
Wendy 10/15/2010 1:37 pm
Wow! I think the fact that he knew that he was supposed to take it apart in the first place is amazing. Some would probably just shake it around and not think of actually disassembling it.
Denise 10/16/2010 1:35 am
Bonnie he is not ‘pulling’ it apart – it comes apart, like a puzzle
Victoiria 10/17/2010 9:55 am
Birds are very smart for some thats hard to understand.
Pam Hartman 10/17/2010 10:47 am
I have two cockatoos (Maluccan & Umbrella) and both are escape artists. Tikki (maluccan) completely removed the entire locking mechanism from her cage. We then attached a lock requiring the dialing of numbers. She figured the combination within less than an hour and had the cage door open. We then put a different type of lock, where your turn the dial back and forth … to our amazement she again figured this combination and out she came. We now have a padlock, where a key is required to open the cage.
Poppy (umbrella) figured out how to completely removed the feedbowl door and out she came.
There is no question that parrots are amazingly smart creatures. We humans have to work to stay one-step ahead of their intelligence. I’d be proud to be called a “bird-brain!”
I Love The Birds, We Had A House Fire And I Lost All My Birds. I Miss Them So Much, They Talked And would Welcome You When You Would Come Home. Just Had Them On My Mind, Thanks For Listing. Margie
WOW WOW WOW I JUST LOVE THIS VIDEO. I AM GOING TO TEACH MY PARROT MAYA HOW TO DO THIS TRICK! I AM AMAZED.
TONI
Mitch 10/19/2010 7:38 am
He is doing it by himself and not forcing it, just like and easy puzzle for him. Parrot are very smart, I have many and they are very intelligent, trust me! I hope that metal isn’t zinc coated, cause its toxic for birds!
Getting called “bird brain” is quite the compliment then, huh? That was awesome!!!
great video but sorry to me i can see why the parrot can do it and humans cant if you think about it. there is no smartest as macaws have strong beaks which is what it used to pull the links apart. of course unless you are super strong a normal person cannot do it.
I hope that shiny metal isn’t zinc coated – toxic!
parrots are lovely. I have two ones; one is an amazons real, the other is an amazons dufresnaia and they sing, dance and speak many words. They are like children and they offer love, friendship, company and I feel that I am very lucky to have them.
I have a Quaker who I have a hard time keeping in his cage. For every new idea I come up with to keep his cage door closed he figures out how to open it. He watches me intently each time I secure the cage and each time I unlock it. Then, eventually I come home and he has escaped. Thinking of renaming him Houdini.
I agree with bonnie. I was looking at this exact puzzle at work the other day and my first thought was that Chucky would love taking that apart! (He is my Sulpher Crested Cockatoo). He would just open the gap to get the metal pieces apart lol. My fingers are certainly not strong enough to do that!
Bonnie and Tinz,
These puzzles are not solved by using strength. They are solved with strategy. The birds and humans playing with these solve them by utilizing the interaction between pieces, not by augmenting the parts. Neither piece is bent to get them apart. That’s why they’re puzzles, not strength challenges or stuck pieces of metal. Yes, bending them would get them apart, but that is breaking the puzzle, not solving it.
Yeah, it is using the strength of its beak to push the peace through the gap of the other one. Watch it the first time and you see it do this.Its not that they aren’t extremely intelligent, they are, its that we tend to sensationalize things just a bit..
You are missing the fact that the bird doesn’t “pull” it apart with force. It is a trick with how the metal pieces are interlocked and once you have learned the way they come apart you’ve solved the puzzle. Pretty amazing bird! I have a couple of these puzzles and each time I pick them up I forget how I solved them the last time I played with them. Never thought of letting my bird try.
My Greenwing is constantly taking his rather well buildt stainless steel cage apart. The other day he removed the entire top portion giving it a “convertible” look.
He has even opened and removed a padlock that secured his water bottle…I swear it was properly locked. He just beat it to death until it popped open! I have about six padlocks on his cage now..securing feed dishes, doors, swings, etc.
I use foraging type toys with his food inside. He defeats most of them very quickly and the few that he can’t figure out quickly enough…he just destroys!
Wow! I think the fact that he knew that he was supposed to take it apart in the first place is amazing. Some would probably just shake it around and not think of actually disassembling it.
Bonnie he is not ‘pulling’ it apart – it comes apart, like a puzzle
Birds are very smart for some thats hard to understand.
I have two cockatoos (Maluccan & Umbrella) and both are escape artists. Tikki (maluccan) completely removed the entire locking mechanism from her cage. We then attached a lock requiring the dialing of numbers. She figured the combination within less than an hour and had the cage door open. We then put a different type of lock, where your turn the dial back and forth … to our amazement she again figured this combination and out she came. We now have a padlock, where a key is required to open the cage.
Poppy (umbrella) figured out how to completely removed the feedbowl door and out she came.
There is no question that parrots are amazingly smart creatures. We humans have to work to stay one-step ahead of their intelligence. I’d be proud to be called a “bird-brain!”
I Love The Birds, We Had A House Fire And I Lost All My Birds. I Miss Them So Much, They Talked And would Welcome You When You Would Come Home. Just Had Them On My Mind, Thanks For Listing. Margie
WOW WOW WOW I JUST LOVE THIS VIDEO. I AM GOING TO TEACH MY PARROT MAYA HOW TO DO THIS TRICK! I AM AMAZED.
TONI
He is doing it by himself and not forcing it, just like and easy puzzle for him. Parrot are very smart, I have many and they are very intelligent, trust me! I hope that metal isn’t zinc coated, cause its toxic for birds!
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