'Sometimes they would leave the video call real quickly to go get something to show the other bird.'
, a team of scientists was able to show that once taught how, pet parrots can and will FaceTime their parrot friends.
"Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in the US, often lacking appropriate stimuli to meet their high social, cognitive, and emotional needs," the researchers wrote inProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsDuring a three-month experiment, the researchers taught a total of 18 pet birds how to "engage in video-calling other parrots" to see if such a system can improve their lives.The system itself was pretty simple.
In fact, every single bird wanted to call a friend at some point. Having access to that level of social interaction overwhelmingly seemed to improve each of their lives, the researchers found.
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