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Kili's Somersault

Postby Michael » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:00 am

Taught Kili to flip over forward in under a week. She decided to lay dead at the end on her own cause she already knew play dead. So to her play dead and flip are just two different methods to roll onto her back and lay there. Also in this video, you can see me demonstrate the "come here" cue which calls Kili to fly down and land in front of me.

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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby MissLady9902 » Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:07 am

That is the cutest thing ever!
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby MandyG » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:08 am

Cute! I really like how she plays dead at the end!

How did you end up teaching it to her?
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby Kathleen » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:55 am

I think this is one of my favorite parrot tricks (other than basketball, I like that one too). Great trick. :mrgreen:
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby MandyG » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:09 pm

Just another idea, you could try training her to fly down and very quickly go into the somersault. Then it would look like she's crash landing, flipping over, and playing dead!
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby Michael » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:18 pm

I actually have to avoid doing that because then she won't land normally. In fact that was a problem I was running into. She would fly down and because she knew that I was cuing her to somersault every time for the video, that's basically what she would do rather than wait for the cue. This is why I have to constantly mix tricks up and can't get into a routine cause she'll just do the whole sequence without waiting for the cues!
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby miajag » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:50 pm

Wow, very nice.
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby Mona » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:58 am

That definitely is the top of the "cuteness quotient!"
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby kimbo » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:55 pm

Michael wrote:Taught Kili to flip over forward in under a week. She decided to lay dead at the end on her own cause she already knew play dead. So to her play dead and flip are just two different methods to roll onto her back and lay there. Also in this video, you can see me demonstrate the "come here" cue which calls Kili to fly down and land in front of me.

kili is one smart bird. taught mine to turn round and shake. he doesnt trust me enough to do somersault on my finger yet, hopefully soon. he also goes through pipe, so getting there. that flip of kilis is oh so cute.
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Re: Kili's Somersault

Postby Frederica » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:37 pm

Great!! :thumbsup:
I wouldn't have believed that parrots can learn that in adulthood; I only knew of very young budgies rolling on their backs...

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