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Colored Boxes Trick - Parrot Matching Colors and Closing Box

Postby Michael » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:03 pm

Colored Boxes Trick - Parrot Matching Colors and Closing Boxes

Watch Kili do her colored boxes trick and then read some tips about teaching color match tricks to your parrot.
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Re: Colored Boxes Trick - Parrot Matching Colors and Closing Box

Postby guilletto » Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:20 am

Parrots not only see life in colors, but they are able to see 99M of colors more than us. While we "only" see 1 million of colors, birds can see 100 millions of them.
The reason is that as tetrachromatic animals (like Amphibians and reptiles) they are able to see in the UV spectrum. So, they use this capability to regulate their calcium cycle on their own, select better males or females, or see the life in more that 4K !! Lol

Did you know it? ;)
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Re: Colored Boxes Trick - Parrot Matching Colors and Closing Box

Postby Michael » Sat Jul 11, 2015 9:35 am

Yes. And this is why I suspect Kili sometimes has trouble with color match tricks at first. She will ealk around and try the piece against every receptacle and keep moving on to the next one. She's like, "this isn't exactly the same!" While to me red and red look alike, to her they might be somewhat different shades. So it takes training to overcome this by teaching acceptable generalization.
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