Training Three Birds 

LOL 😆

Apollo needs some blue face paint while yelling FREEDOM

Lmao

😂

Seize the means of production

African or European?

I would have been soo disappointed without that response!

"Where'd ya get the coconuts?"

​@@livelybubbs6242well I don't know thAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

@@livelybubbs6242 how do you know these things?

one day he'll get fed up and just start calling everything pistash lmfao

@@rootkhan3254 wanna pistache

Yeah i think he complicates it its best to avoid similar words

@@_Cfocus I think its smart to make him recognize similar words well

And let's not forget Shrek

Maturity brings independence.

Exactly! I get the strong feeling he just doesn't feel like it right now lol. Like a toddler...

You are absolutely right. I've often considered getting a bird, but i can't probide what they need. A lot of people don't get, how hard it is to properly care gor them.

I would love one but the level of care they require I couldn’t give,.

i admire the restraint of people who'd love to own a parrot but understand the limitations of their time, lifestyle, etc. they're making a good decision about a bird's potential quality of life :)

True! And they also make loud sounds 🦜

I know next to nothing about birds, but this seems fairly intensive, since it’s not like anyone is training them when they’re in the wild. Then again, I guess the wild has a lot more stimulation than an average human household.. (in case I’m dumb enough that anyone is concerned, worry not, I am not planning on getting a parrot, nor have I ever)

yeah greys are just miles ahead

He teaches them according to their respective levels of intelligence.

But i'm sure he'll make it.

S H R O C K

@@Unnamed922 Good bird!

@@quokka_11 🤣🤣🤣

Master glass*

YES! I shows the work it takes to lovingly communicate when you are a teacher. So much voice control and positive calmness. I don't often see this level of of excellence with teachers or parents.. being impatient is way faster. But selfish. Dalton and Tori are Masters at demonstrating the best way for as anyone to learn!

I watched Apollo for years and now I teach English as a foreign language. I catch myself saying "What colour?" to kids in the same intonation that Dalton does with Apollo 😭

Which I suspect is why you never see his birds have pulled all their feathers out and stuff.

@@AmeliaHirna Do you ever tell those kids to touch purple?

@Colddirector Shockingly yes

He's definitely somewhat frustrated being so close on "croc" (he said it properly a few times over the day). We offered him ez tricks for pecan pieces, but he refused. Though he still might be jealous to some degree.

@@lubnah3521 He’s fine shut up

@@ApolloandFrenshe probably thinks it’s easier for himself if he earns small pistachio pieces

I thought the sane thing. He’s Very Intelligent Doesn’t seem fair 🥰 Love you, Apollo

That was one of my thoughts too. Just now reading yours lol! Like minds!

He just wants his pistash 🤣

@@Gummy_Pop. 😂 anything for pistash!

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He is jealous of the others

Worse even, bird heaven forbid, if I wear a SCARF 🐦😱 I keep budgies, and they're still genetically programmed to be scared shitless of anything that resembles a snake. A broomstick, a yardstick, a cable, me wearing a scarf or a pair of suspenders, it's all evil and causes a panic attack. 🙈

lmao yes xD Like a string of 5 or six of those

I mean, he could still shake for a pecan, but he's used to the finer things now

Gifted moment

@@quantumblauthor7300 I was just thinking this. "This is just describing me in the gifted program."

@gentlesoul when I was in a gifted program, they put us in separate rooms from each other. My sense of this video is that Apollo is frustrated, Dalton is frustrated, Tori seems bored (enough to throw a shell once) and everybody's not quite clued in to their own feelings of frustration. The French language comments I saw on this video, I'd paraphrase as "don't work the birds so hard, they're not enjoying themselves" which seems to apply to Dalton as well 😄 keeping in mind learning slows down when nobody's having a good time

That’s why he gets some answers wrong on purpose so he lowers the testing curve for the others 😂

If it's not a pistash It won't pass

A true man of culture!

He doesn't like them.

african greys are one of the smartest birds

He's gonna ask owner about things

I just saw a video of him talking to himself, telling himself to calm down. It was so close to human that it almost creeped me out. Now I feel like I need to get myself used to the idea of holding conversations with birds....

Apollo is super smart but I don't think his intellectual/emotional development will go beyond human "toddlerhood" as suggested by other researchers working with smart birds. I see Apollo having gotten the basics of English grammar (i.e. he speaks the words in the right order and uses sentence structure to cue himself in to which words are important or unimportant in a sentence!) but I also saw him having trouble with sentences that have multiple nouns, for instance (like "the bug is IN the bottle")

It's part of the training. Apollo's supposed to see it and imitate it. "Give right answers = earn snack"

He would no doubt have a Wario backpack

@@Vamooso and a Shrek lunchbox

I’m cracking up picturing him shuffling off with his tiny Wario backpack & Shrek lunchbox filled with pistachios! It takes a tremendous amount of dedication to train them! Keep up the GREAT work!!

@@graphicanne Now imagine he sits close to the window and it is a quiz day. Everybody is focusing on the questions and it starts raining outside, Apollo: pour water

@@ruthhopeful1405 that would be a scream! I’ve got a whole name for his school picked out & everything! My imagination runs wild! Apollo & all Greys will go to school at an exclusive school solely for the higher learner of these special birds! Grey’s Andragogy

I have a Grey and am a Special Ed teacher of 30 years with behaviorally challenged students and you are So Right. He is totally messing with him. Ty out have to be really smart to be in the middle to f with your lessons AND have an incredible sense of humor. You can clearly see the difference in intelligence hear. I wonder, are these two Special Ed teachers? Their voice tone and control is perfect in this video. So many times some teachers don't realize that it's their voice tone and lack of patience is what creates or feeds a lack of confidence in kids. All kids and animals should be spoken to with this level of professionalism, consideration and love. My favs are Wario and Shrek for for rock. He's so happy and funny even when he want to mess with Mr. Tori.

Its a foolproof answer. Close enough to cork, croc, rock and shrek lmfao.

He said it at 7:00 as well 🤣

🫵YOUR vibe is impeccable, animals and people is same

"Welcome to Birbs View you only pay in pistashes" 🤣🐦

“Buy 1 ticket, get 1 free! Discounts for all people that use expensive pistachios! 50 pistachios per ticket 25 expensive pistachios per ticket Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiits Apollo and his trainer here, looking to find something to use, anyone have metal we can borrow?..”

Wario is my cryptonite. He kills me with that

I can only read Shrock in Apollo's voice

It's definitely a sound production issue, he understands the minor phonetic differences easily. Aside from her injured toes, Ophelia has black skin around her eyes instead of the typical pink like Soleil has.

@@ApolloandFrens She has an injured toe? :(

@@ApolloandFrens also correct me if im wrong but ophelia has a small piece of yellow on her wing shoulder area and soleil has orange

@@ApolloandFrens have u ever learned anything about indian ringnecks?

My bad if you already know this, but parrots don't have vocal cords so producing these sounds requires them to get the muscle memory down in their throat since they flex throat muscles to produce sounds instead.

You know it!

Not necessarily, they are very social creatures.

I think they're baby crocs

lol

I'm sure he's giving some wrong answers on purpose. He can be very sassy.

He's got 'tude. 😂

Waah!!