Getting Creative with the Questions 🧐 

It won't last Forever. Some day you will find out, that life sucks

@@aleksihanninen5929 what? What does that have to do with anything? It's not this person's fault that your life is miserable and you can't take pleasure in the small things like a bird video on the internet

@@osamabinballin3847 i think the person who commented that was a bot looking for a reaction or something

@@Krysztal_ I am not a bot

He was giving a bathing response by fluffing up, wasn't scared probably just didn't want to get wet and stepped away

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これ好き😂

he he he

Yeah, he should get a little bowl of them

you really shouldn’t give your pet snacks to satisfy their hunger that’s what their meals are for snacks are just a treat too many will spoil them

Lol

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They actually DO have a sense of humor like that!! Once,when Alex had been answering questions for an interviewer for a very long time,the guy took his keys out,held up 3 keys&asked,"How many keys?" Alex stared the guy down&refused to answer,though the guy repeatedly repeated the question. He had become tired of not just answering questions,but answering such SIMPLE questions. At this point,he could count&add&subtract numbers&even TAUGHT language to younger greys! His owner(the professor who did the revolutionary,ground-breaking work with Alex,whose name stood for "Avian Language Experiment",said she got up&left the room for a minute. ) When she walked out,Alex gave the guy what he described as a "withering look"& said,"THREE! THREE KEYS,OK??" The book she wrote about her years of training Alex was incredible&,no matter how many times I've read it,I ALWAYS cry when he dies. Alex's story has inspired all these people to work with Grey's of their ownbut,so far,I haven't seen one that reached the level of learning Alex did! (Of course,he DID have a Ph.D&her students to work with him&every aspect of the way he would be handled&inter-acted with had been thoughtfully designed by her.) These birds are so highly intelligent(they can reach the intellectual level of a 7 year old human,but stay 2 years old emotionally their entire lives& stress takes a very big toll on their lives&,in order to be able to present her findings as FACTS,Alex had to be asked&correctly answer the same questions over 100 times&,in several pictures of him,you can see where he has plucked a lot of his feathers out. (When I got my grey,1/2 of her had all her feathers&the other side looked like a plucked chicken you would see at the grocery store. They would grow back&she kept re-plucking them.. The vet said she would probably do this the restof her life,as it was a habit now. These birds normally live to be 75 in captivity,but due to the stress he was under for years despite all the attention he got daily from all the students&the professor& all the special things they did like playing his favorite music daily(his favorite song was "California Dreamin' " by The Mamas&The Papas&he would close his eyes&sway to the music&it really calmed him&he got special treats&new challenging toys all the time,it was just too much. She left the lab one night&Alex said his usual goodbye,"Good night! I love you! You be good!"& she repeated it back to him. She says she got up the next morning,turned on her computer&saw a message from her asst.,who opened the lab each day. It read,"Sadly,we lost one of our Grey's last night." She said she was physically frozen for a moment but in her head she was screaming,"PLEASE DON'T LET IT BE ALEX!" over&over. She called&asked which bird it was. The girl was new&didn't know the birds by name yet,so she screamed,"Is it the cage in the back,on the left?" When the girl answered that,yes,it was the bird in that cage,she said she became totally limp&just slid from her chair onto the floor&lay there curled in the fetal position crying until she completely lost the ability to make a sound. Alex was on the cover of Time magazine that month&,at the end of the year,Newsweek put him on their annual list of the"100 Most Influential People Who Died That Year". Like so many great trailblazers,Alex wasn't widely known&appreciated until after his death. The thing is though,Alex wasn't special. When choosing a bird,she had her husband pick him out of a group of 20 one-year old Grey's who were all perched on a long perch at the pet store. She wanted him to be randomly chosen by someone else so it could never be said that she saw something different about him. Every one of these birds has the ability to do everything Alex did&they will pick up on things like colors&the names of things just by observing &paying attention to their surroundings. Their natural ability to mimic sounds,which they use in the wild to mimic the sound of the predator of THEIR predator to scare them away is so much fun to listen to when you have one of these awesome birds as a pet!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

@micheleengel3428 I was taken aback by the length of your comment, but it was surprisingly easy to read. To be honest, it kinda feels like that "Hearing someone talk about something they're passionate about" thing haha Editing this now that I wrote my whole response, holy crap, I got a little carried away lmao I've never heard of that story, actually! Didn't even know there was a famous gray named Alex, so I thought you were talking about the guy in the video for a few seconds LMAO (I think his name is Alex but I might be mixing something up). I just checked, the guy's name is Dalton lmao. These parrots are CRAZY smart, I see videos of them all the time, and I'm always delighted/shocked, although I would never trust myself with that big of a responsibility. I feel like caring for a bird is a huge task, and I wouldn't want them to have anything but the best. Plus, wouldn't want to put that responsibility on anyone else (talking about their long lifespans), as my father did. I actually have two parrots (the regular green ones, two different species, though) and I really wanted to pass them to a ""sanctuary"" of sorts, but my mother was afraid of them dying. They never come out of their cages and, sadly, never had names until the pandemic, when I decided to name them... so yeah, caring for birds is not for everyone... Back to grays, though... Apollo here is very interesting too... like, at first sight, it might seem like he just answers those "basic" questions, but not really. In other videos, he: 1: Showed curiosity: When he sees an object that he doesn't know the material of, he will ask Dalton the same way he asks Apollo ("What's it made of?") 2: Disagreed with Dalton: I have two main examples of this one: 2.1: The wall incident: Apollo "beaked" the wall (kitchen tiles) a couple of times, then asked Dalton what they were made of. Dalton said it was rock, and Apollo repeated it. A few seconds later, he beaked the wall again and said "It's glass". Dalton considered that he taught mugs were made of glass. In the end, Apollo won the discussion. 2.2: The bug incident: Dalton saw a snake outside and grabbed it to show Apollo (that's just funny tbh). Apollo first asks to touch, then understands as Dalton says he can't. Then, Dalton and Tori argues about whether it classifies as worm-bug (more based on appearance, and it has no legs) lizard (Tori says it's all scaly and usually bugs are edible for Apollo). Meanwhile, Apollo keeps repeating "It's a bug.". Apollo joined the discussion haha 3: Showed a comedic sense: Multiple examples also. My favorites are: 3.1: When learning "Shrek", he started to mix it up with "Rock". Then you can see him actually making a pun by saying (not training with Dalton btw) "Shrek. Rock. Shrock!". Yes, he said it with an excited voice. He later said "What's this? Shrock! Good bird!", which to me is a joke, since Dalton always tries to correct him/asks him to say it better. 3.2: On multiple occasions, he seemed to have some understanding of physical comedic delivery. Believe me here, but he has, multiple times, deliberately leaned into the camera to deliver a phrase. I swear to you, Apollo is breaking the 4th wall lmao. One good example is him doing the Mario death scream, walking over to the camera, looking at the lens, leaning in and saying "That's the wow!" 3.3: Dalton asked what a glass bottle was made of. As he always does, he beat his beak against it, then seemed uncertain. He said "Pour water", as the bottle had water inside. Sometimes, when he "forgets" the word, he says something related to show he knows what it is. Dalton said "No, what's it made of?". He turned towards the camera, said "Shrek" and shook his head up and down. I swear I think he realized he didn't know the answer, so instead he just tried to be funny. 3.4: In a similar situation, Dalton asked him what something was made of. His response was lightly taping it, leaning to the other side and saying "Shrock!", then boping his head again. Dalton seems to think the same thing that I do, because he then said "Now you're just being silly." 4: Corrected himself and trained on his own: Couldn't find the video I was looking for, but I remember he said "This is a black", then went "This is color. BL OH KH. OHCK. Block." 5: Showed pretty good communication skills. Yes, that's kind of the most straightforward one, but yeah. 5.1: Standing next to the window looking outside, where Dalton is, he says: "Dalton's outside! Tori!" 5.2: Staring straight into the camera and going "What?!" 5.3: Talking to himself: "Here, let me see your foot." "It's here." Puts claw up "Look" Tilts head towards his own foot. 5.4: When Dalton walked away from the window outside, Apollo put his foot up and stared at him, who waved, and Apollo said "Bye!"

​@@dionemartins0212 apollo really waves to people outside, and ? wow!

And an angel gets its wings.

If there would be a compilation we would be IMMORTAL!

​@@woutervanduin7415we could be immortals, immortals just not for long for lon- Ops wrong comment section...

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Bruh if apollo ever said that he didn't like pistachios the world would end

Ah I see, so all this time he was saying "Pistash" in a desperate effort to tell his humans what he hates 😂

Dalton*

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Glassk

I believe that he is intelligent; smart is a lesser adjective. ❤😊

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I can't hear it enough ♥️

I get it but it was made of shrek though

What's this about? Glass?

No, it just means that the owner said "a bell" instead of "its a bell" when making the bird mimic him, they don't have sentient thought, no animal can understand anything

@@arzfan29 you're such a fun person.

@@arzfan29 u know humans are animals, right?

@@arzfan29 that’s just untrue, there are animals that are even more advanced than humans in some ways , there are primates that have a memory that can beat the best of best of humans at puzzle solving , look up chimp puzzle solving. Also almost every animal understands that it is not permanent and will die if damaged enough, which is complex in itself. To say “no animal understands anything” is just wrong, cows actually feel remorse when they lose their young also, so they have grief periods where they miss their young after they are killed and/or taken away from them , animals can understand a lot they aren’t robots that don’t understand what they are doing

@@roksforbrains Animals are smarter then most people 😂 And parrots are amazing. Look up Pebbles the crazy Cockatoo. Pebbles is the most talkative animated bird ever. She puts her whole body into her conversations. She isn't repeating words, she knows what she is saying.

Did you notice he First said "purple"?

@@TheNoiseySpectator Yes I did. It is after all quite close I thought. Purple is red mixed with blue. I have no idea what colour perceptions parrots have. It's also a "p" word.

I think parrots can modulate their voice by opening or closing the bath of their throat, instead of using their mouth

I never even thought of that 😲 makes it even better now

@@TheNoiseySpectator Youre telling me a creature with the mind of toddler can answer questions wrong!!! 😵He must not know anything after all!

Glass is reflecting his purple t-shirt.

Considering some languages don't even distinguish between red and purple, I'd give it to him on principle.

I thought exactly the same thing.

Terrific birds

This isn’t nearly the first time apollo has said ‘pour water’, he can’t just make a sentence like that out of nowhere…

Truth is, as a person who is now 64 and I have devoted my life to animals, they are 99.9 percent smarter than humans, who have the arrogance to think that only humans have intelligence. Biggest problem with that is, humans can't understand animals. The reverse is not true.

I think the trick here is it listens to what the owner says to the objects and when presented to the objects he says the same things as the owner

Right I’m still not convinced to be honest lol

@@natorithornton I agree I think he's miming it behind the objects against his face. Birds really aren't this intelligent 🤣

@@JoshNunnyt its not like it understands what it's saying, all its doing is mimicking the sounds the owner says, he probably says the name of an object over and over so the bird can repeat

@@JoshNunnyt this parrot is known to imitate the exact tone of one’s voice. He’s not hiding it. Probably just said the name of the object so many times so it remembers to associate the word to the object

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I like it picasso

"what's it made out of" "DEATH"

What am i doing?

@@danielwlodawer8469 “typing codes”

I'm so sorry for your loss. Your pigeon loved you very much.

Sorry for your loss. It's apparent that you loved your bird very much

I'm sorry you lost your freind. Pigeons make great companions!

@suetan Oh, so sorry, my dear! I am sure your pigeon knew it was loved! You clearly cared deeply for birdy, even watching videos together, and birdy videos at that! I hope you can find some peace by recalling the happy times you shared.

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure he had a happy life with you and enjoyed your time together ❤️

I like when he says "glass"

G l a s s 🗿🗿

I like “glass” and “hug”..! ✌️

“Rrrock”

Very brilliant. He clearly understands

Very smart 🕊️

Dalton sounds like Mr. Simmons from “Hey Arnold!”

As someone upthread pointed out, it may have looked purple to him!

Yes❤

I was just wondering this myself. I swore each bird I've watched sounds just like their human. Its pretty neat 😃

@@leeanncornett5246 yes its quite mesmerizing

Thats what parrots do.

Parrots dont really use words as much as echo words. He's UNDERSTANDS the word but he isn't "speaking" he's echoing there for speech patterns and accents and such. if the same bird was raised by another person the SAME way speech would be different because humans sound different.

*you're xD

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@@a_diamond shut up

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Why so mad 💀💀

Don’t yell at me!🤣😂✌️

Yes, it actually proves that certain species have awareness, intelligence, reasoning, planning and capacity for logical conclusions that many people attributed only to humans. For example the way ravens can manufacture tools and use them intelligently to open an apparatus to get the food locked inside....

Birds are smarter than 3 year olds, lol. Can't believe these things are the last dinosaurs alive

@@martinwagner7361 people really underestimate the intelligence of other species, interested in looking for intelligent life far beyond our planet, completely blinded to the intelligent life that surrounds them each day.

@@firstnamelastname7448 that has been true for a long time. However that has already deeply changed and will continue to change. No Scientist if rank is really upholding the old school idea of animals as the biological instinctual Automatons that the then prevailing materialistic reductionism tried to convey. We know by now that many species have an amazing bandwidth of intelligent and emotional responses and can even display altruistic behavior that contradicts the survival of the fittest ideology.... Not that there wasn't any truth in that but it's just not the ONLY criteria/explanation.

You know he's not actually answering questions, right?

At 1.5 years old? Sure

You know he's not actually answering questions, right?

@@jackduane5555 he clearly is answering questions.

@@firstnamelastname7448 and the heavenly bodies are "clearly" all orbiting Earth. I don't care what ignorant people think is "clear"

@@jackduane5555 I may not know everything about animals, but I know evolution changed us, so it can change them too.

@@jackduane5555 you told someone they didn't understand what they watched, but you seem to be the one who didn't quite understand.

This is very useful information. That was a particularly deep red with a lot of blue in it-- more maroon than red... so it didnt surprise me that he said purple. Your information gives more concrete evidence to what I was thinking.

Thanks for this info I hope his owner/trainer reads doesn't take your advice it's very interesting about the color spectrums

Wow! Interesting. Thanks for this information.

That's super interesting! To your last point, about scoring purple as a correct answer due to how he sees it.. since he has always seen red as purple, he just knows that color he sees as red and would never refer to it as purple unless his trainer called it purple. Think of it as if you were learning a different language. You still see the same color as before just use a different word to describe it. Let's use French as an example. In French, red is rouge. Now, let's assume you don't know that, and the person teaching you decides to pull a prank and teach you that red in French is actually verde. Verde is green in actuality, but not knowing this and trusting the person teaching you, you go on believing that red is verde in French. You still see red,you know it's red, but call it green in French. So basically, the bird knows that the color he sees is what his trainer calls red regardless of how the bird perceives that specific color. If his trainer ever taught the bird what purple looks like, that will look different to the bird than red does and he will call that color purple.

African grey parrots are so intelligent

@@lisamcdonald1014I’m absolutely mind blown. It’s truly incredible 🥰

they can also add and subtract.

That's awful lol

"Apollo, what are the Covenant doing?" "Glass."

One of my favourite scenes in R&M lmao

Oh. Oh my god.

"Oh god"

"what is my purpose?" "Push this button" "You've got to be f***ing kidding me."

I'm with you on the guy. Bird is lovely.

@@Trinity25Apr glad someone else sees it!

You know he's not actually answering questions, right?

@@jackduane5555 Lol why are you so obsessed?

@@fibbintiggins2858 lol why are you so dumb?

Gray parrot is the only species of parrot that can do this. It was proved in 2008.

@@jackduane5555 did you really go into every comment complimenting the bird to copy and paste this message because if so I'm really sorry