Smarter than the Average Bird
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uzumakilover (12/08/2015) [-] 
Too bad it can't say Naruto-sama's name, useless bird.
You may aswell release it back into the wild where it belongs if you aren't going to teach it anything useful, Believe it!
You may aswell release it back into the wild where it belongs if you aren't going to teach it anything useful, Believe it!
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presidentmoose (12/08/2015) [-] Here's a better quality one, my friend. watermark sold separately
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pitch (12/08/2015) [-]
I'm majoring in biology and currently working in the field of bird cognition and this makes me incredibly happy.
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severak (12/08/2015) [-]
I can answer that. (Hopefully accurately)
Birds can't rotate their eyes very much/at all and thus have to bob and twist their head in order to focus on things. So in order to get the same range of vision as a human, instead of moving their eye muscles they don't have, they move their head and neck instead!
Birds can't rotate their eyes very much/at all and thus have to bob and twist their head in order to focus on things. So in order to get the same range of vision as a human, instead of moving their eye muscles they don't have, they move their head and neck instead!
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pitch (12/09/2015) [-] This is in part true. Bird eyes are a lot less mobile in their socket than human eyes. But I know one answer for pigeons specifically (idk how well this can be applied to other birds as well).
They do not see well when their head is moving (could be that they're lacking a optokinetic nystagmus due to immobility of the eye within the socket but this is just an assumption) so they keep it still for as long as possible even when walking and then have one quick movement of it. That way the don't see properly for the fraction of the time they would have improper vision if they were to keep their head moving at the same pace of their body. That's the typical bobbing you see within them.
And I totally love how you just asked a behaviourist something about physiology haha those are two totally different fields. I hope I could help you out a bit c:
They do not see well when their head is moving (could be that they're lacking a optokinetic nystagmus due to immobility of the eye within the socket but this is just an assumption) so they keep it still for as long as possible even when walking and then have one quick movement of it. That way the don't see properly for the fraction of the time they would have improper vision if they were to keep their head moving at the same pace of their body. That's the typical bobbing you see within them.
And I totally love how you just asked a behaviourist something about physiology haha those are two totally different fields. I hope I could help you out a bit c:
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civilizedwasteland (12/09/2015) [-] but when birds talk to people they always bob their heads up and down even if they arnt walking
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pitch (12/09/2015) [-] 
You are asking good questions right here. There's one thing I could think of that makes them do that. Bobbing one's head in parrots is a common gesture of courtship. It's common that animals, not only birds, use such gesture even when they're not currently courting/sexually aroused but even when they're aroused in a non-sexual manner. It's a displacement activity I guess. You can call it a habit if you want to.
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keatontheghostfox ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-] What do you do? Have them do little tests like the one in the post?
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keatontheghostfox ONLINE (12/08/2015) [-] Civil engineering technology. Might change it to biology or chemistry though.
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DremoraValkynaz (12/09/2015) [-] Sad Romance, from a Korean TV drama series Over the Green Fields.
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strangesir (12/08/2015) [-] I think that still counts actually. M-maybe you need to show me more for uh... to be, make sure. Y'know?
I'm not into it tho, just sayin' k?
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strangesir (12/09/2015) [-] Of course not Best Burb
That's some poor rule 34 tho, 5/10
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kibbleking (12/09/2015) [-] feministactivism.org/Margaret/funny-pictures/5338010/
I got more just ask.
Also remember that everyone is looking down on you for it.
I got more just ask.
Also remember that everyone is looking down on you for it.
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strangesir (12/09/2015) [-] Kinky~
Nah, that's enough for now. I'll go... analyze, these.
Nah, that's enough for now. I'll go... analyze, these.
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commanderbunbun (12/08/2015) [-] why do i feel you had an orange and blue profile picture and you deleted it after making this comment
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silasersej (12/08/2015) [-] Aww man I was gonna mention novabird
I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky posttwo
I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky posttwo
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voodoonoodle (12/08/2015) [-]
I don't have source but I'm sure someone could find it. But a parrot was the first animal to ever have been recorded to ask an existential question, it was "what colour am I?". Parrots are very cool animals.
