The Highly Intelligent New Zealand Alpine Parrot 🦜 | Smithsonian Channel 

Travel to New Zealand and meet the world's most intelligent thief. The Kea is my favorite bird.

I love how belligerent is an adjective used to describe these birds 😂

Aww this is so lovely 😍 MAGNIFICENT ‼️

They are beautiful! Thanks for this well done video. The cinematography is as always magnificent. I will show this video to my mom, who is also an avid birdlover. Thanks!

Ms birdwatcher here loving this in California 🤓

Adorable hard workers and smart! Hope their numbers grow!

Very scary when its beak got to close to its partner's eye!!!!

I love their call. Amazing birds!

I learned some new things today.

KEAS DO NOT ATTACK!!

Kea Frozen Planet 2

Wow how cute 🥰

I love them! Adorable!

So precious !🙏🦜🙏

Kea is an amazing bird

I love birds most of all animals

HaShem created perfection and beauty.

Keas are remarkable birds: playful, belligerent and smart

❤lovely

They peel the flesh from the sheep

New Zealand 🇳🇿

It's wearing a bracelet. Is that a tag for tracking?

Hey kid wait! you can't join in the romance yet 2:33. These smart young Keas are learning fast to be romantic.

Why are their feet tagged with something?

Kias are actually endemic to the Abardeer Mountains in Kenya 🇰🇪

That is not play-fighting, it is a stylized courtship/"romantic" version of the male regurgitating food to feed the female (like they do to feed chicks). They don't necessarily actually regurgitate food when they do it.

Scientist that believe certain animals are as smart as a young child never had kids.

This is a really wonderful short about an iconic species which accomplished something analogous to what Penguins did in the antarctic and sub-antarctic: they evolved to occupy a niche in colder climes to beat out the competition (other parrots and animals). 🏔️🗻 *AMAZING!* 👍👏 I do have two questions, however: 1) Why is the pair-bonding behavior depicted being described as "play-fighting" when it's clear that the male regurgitated a food gift to the female, which is the general objective of the behavioral ritual? That's not "fighting," even as play, as it's a very common behavior documented in a multitude of Psittacines to strengthen the pair bond. In adult birds, it's often the male which initiates it and provides a regurgitated food-gift to the female, but not always; sometimes the female initiates the display while the male will then usually produce a food-gift to her. Parent birds of many species do this as well. 2) Irene Pepperberg, PhD (and others) established the estimated equivalent cognitive ability of Psittacines to be closer to a 7 year old human. Is there a factor which exists in Kea brain anatomy which would reduce neural capacity relative to other Psittacines? It would seem that evolutionary adaptations favoring the ability to survive in harsher environs would actually increase that propensity, not reduce or diminish it.