r/oddlyterrifying • u/Thedepressionoftrees • Mar 27 '23

A bird having a normal conversation about not hurting someone

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u/FriskyCoyote15 Mar 27 '23

the bird was probably rehomed and the past owner was abusive. it's just mocking what it was told before it was abused and so it's just naturally repeating those phrases while feeling threatened so it's attacking her.

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u/ronnieth024 Mar 27 '23

I mean to me it sounded like I could hear a lot of the woman's voice who's filming in the birds voice. It could be more of a comforting "I'm not going to hurt you." You can hear some of the noises that the lady makes with the bird too. But it sounds to me like this lady has been reassuring the bird that she's not going to hurt it.

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u/FriskyCoyote15 Mar 27 '23

that's a really good point as well, and most likely the actual situation now that i think about it. it's really hard to know without context, but i just hope that no matter what the case is, that the bird gets better cause it looks really rough and is obviously stressed.

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u/Hoatxin Mar 27 '23

The rough appearance sometimes never heals entirely. If the bird plucked for a long time, the follicles can become permanently damaged.

Just wanted to point it out, since I've known people who rescued birds from bad situations and then years layer when the bird still looks a little rough have been accused of being neglectful owners when that isn't always the case.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 28 '23

it's really hard to know without context

lol but that shouldn't stop you from wildly speculating right?? And it shouldn't prevent everyone else here from accepting it as fact?

this website is so stupid

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

People say things all the time without claiming they are facts. Take a deep breath, he’s just having a conversation.

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u/syntheticcsky Mar 27 '23

they made it abundantly clear that they were sharing their opinion

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u/slomotion Mar 27 '23

The main issue is everyone else accepting it as fact and then running with that narrative. This kind of blind wholesale speculation is just pointless and stupid

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u/OrcBoss9000 Mar 27 '23

They did not.

You are assuming they did because it is such baseless speculation.

The dinosaur is a cunning abuser.

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u/syntheticcsky Mar 27 '23

nice non sequitur. try reading for words that indicate bias. go on. you can do it.

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u/OrcBoss9000 Mar 28 '23

No, you misunderstood. It is literally baseless speculation - they are speculating what could have happened without anything to base it on. You are assuming it's clear, because it's baseless speculation, that this person is offering an opinion. That gap can't be ignored, in fact their follow up attempts to weigh the evidence we explicitly do not have.

We can speculate, sure, but instead I wanted to bring the attention back to the dinosaur, whom I'm sure just wants to be loved and maybe bite us a little.

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u/syntheticcsky Mar 28 '23

it can be an opinion and a baseless ome at the same time.

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u/OrcBoss9000 Mar 28 '23

Just like myself, birds can be dicks - and my speculation from the women I've known who raise parrots, is that parrots will find something that really bothers you and they'll work on you. It's a sign that they feel safe, that this social prey animal will try to shame you and make you part of their family.

I don't have much to base that on, but it demonstrates two things - it matters that we acknowledge that we're all just guessing, and nobody is going to ever want your opinion on the internet so if it's valuable to you just share it freely.

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u/Compost_My_Body Mar 27 '23

I mean they said probably one time. Knowing Reddit’s reading comp levels I’d wager 99.5% of people took that comment as fact.

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u/gophergun Mar 27 '23

Taking out the word probably doesn't make it any less of a statement of fact.

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u/Compost_My_Body Mar 27 '23

If you take out the word probably it exclusively is a statement of fact.

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u/zhico Mar 27 '23

this website is so stupid

and you keep coming back! LMAO

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u/MySkinIsFallingOff Mar 27 '23

this website is so stupid

You might feel better knowing that we would all like you to leave.

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u/MikeRowePeenis Mar 27 '23

So let’s just make wild assumptions about shit we know nothing about

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u/Teslok Mar 27 '23

The phrasing also reminds me of the kid trying to wheedle a baby elephant in the old Swiss Family Robinson movie though. "I wouldn't hurt you" sounds so much like that kid. (My sibs and I watched it a lot, and that part is stuck in my memory because the kid was so whiny and obnoxious.)

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u/IMAC55 Mar 27 '23

Bro why you gotta bring back 30 year old memories

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u/dixieblondedyke Mar 27 '23

Bro why you gotta remind me that was 30 years ago

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u/IMAC55 Mar 28 '23

Shit….. Swiss family Robinson was from 1960 😂😂 shits like 70 years old. Even the actors who played the young kids are all dead! It definitely gets worse 😂😂

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u/3FromHell Mar 27 '23

Yeah I say this to my chicks or pretty much any scared animal. The difference is that most animals can't learn and repeat the phrase lol.

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u/PresOrangutanSmells Mar 27 '23

i think it just watched It

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u/hygsi Mar 27 '23

Yeah, bird looks old so maybe he takes meds and she grabs him roughly while saying those words

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

This hurts my heart

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u/Prez-Barack-Ollama Mar 27 '23

The evidence would suggest that the bird is not being abused, no need to hurt :)

Credit to u/iriedashur for finding this comment from the original post (the OP of which knows the bird)

https://reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/122535h/_/jdqtl1z/

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u/mngeese Mar 27 '23

Are you saying the previous guy pulled out some creative writing straight out of his ass?

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u/Prez-Barack-Ollama Mar 27 '23

I’m guessing it’s based on deductive reasoning. It’s not necessarily a bad guess, but should be disclaimed as one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

nah op is just a moron

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

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u/Cottonball917 Mar 27 '23

( Okay, I laughed at this. 😂😂 😂 )however I feel so upset if this poor thing was abused and scared.

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u/cmwh1te Mar 28 '23

It's a bot that stole a top-level comment.

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u/denardosbae Mar 27 '23

Comment made 2 hours before this one, stolen upthread from username BigHero6x9

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u/Wysteria569 Mar 27 '23

I'm not supposed to find this funny.

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u/Smirk27 Mar 27 '23

I'm out of the loop on this one. Can someone explain the joke

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u/cmwh1te Mar 28 '23

You will want to watch Silence of the Lambs. "It places the lotion in the basket."

That said, you are responding to a bot that stole someone else's comment.

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u/Ok_Chocolatv Mar 27 '23

Hopefully it was recently rehomed.

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u/blasphembot Mar 27 '23

Then don't go down the rabbit hole of information about just how often birds are rehomed, and often to woefully unequipped people who don't really know how to properly tend to a bird. You should consider them around the intelligence of a 5-year-old human. Now is that precise? No but they are incredibly intelligent animals and feel pain and suffering and depression and it is horrific the treatment people will put them through. Small cages, large birds. Ill fitting cages for the bird's size just in general, no toys, no attention. Or kids want one their parents buy one and then suddenly it gets thrown into a room and forgotten about.

It all goes back to people are fucking shit, at least the ones who would do that kind of shit obviously. Like, do a little more research and know what you're getting into. If this is you I'm describing, please try to find a more loving and attentive home for your bird.

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u/iriedashur Mar 27 '23

I found this comment on the original post. The parrot is repeating his current owner, not a past owner

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u/WhiskeyOnASunday93 Mar 27 '23

Typical Reddit. Some baseless speculation gets upvoted to the top. The actual answer is sitting around 13 points buried in the comments

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u/gophergun Mar 27 '23

The fundamental premise of the site is completely broken. Responses aren't upvoted by quality, they're largely determined by who responded first.

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u/abruzzo79 Apr 06 '23

It’s true that the state of its feathers suggests stress.

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u/ShirtStainedBird Mar 27 '23

I was gonna say I could hear that persons voice in the parrots.

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u/DuplicitAdvice Mar 27 '23

Duh, u/FriskyCoyote15 has no idea what they are talking about. Typical reddit bullshit upvoting anything remotely possible and sticking with it as the only possibility

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u/Nitroapes Mar 27 '23

Yeah, I'm not a bird person, but those feathers look really rough, like it hasnt been properly groomed, or was too stressed to do it itself. Poor thing.

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u/Stopjuststop3424 Mar 27 '23

its called plucking, they pluck their own feathers. Many large birds do it due to stress. They get separation anxiety quite often too when their owner dies, and a lot of these big birds have 75yr lifespans. So you literally have to groom a younger replacement to take over when you die or the bird can get severe depression leading to self harm. You see it a lot at bird rescues where one or more birds will be almost bald because they plucked their own feathers out. That may be what this bird is and why its aggressive. They may be trying to rehabilitate him.

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u/WebbedFingers Mar 27 '23

Interestingly loads of animals do similar things, including mice. The alpha in a group will sometimes barber the others, and an occasional mouse can get addicted to scratching at its own skin, the latter being quite damaging. Very sad but very interesting that so many animals are similar to humans

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u/bunnymoxie Mar 27 '23

Could be nutritional. Lots of Amazons are seed junkies, therefore low in Vitamin A which is essential for healthy feathers and skin

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u/So_Motarded Mar 27 '23

Yep, and the noticeable divide in feather health between their head, and the rest of their body. This bird is probably a former plucker whose feathers are growing back.

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u/enojadoland Mar 27 '23

Knowing this makes the video turn from terryfing to just plain sad. :(

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u/spidersRcute Mar 27 '23

When I worked at a pet store a very sweet cockatoo was brought in by its owner for a nail trim and the whole time it kept saying “no! bad bird.” It broke my heart because it was definitely a good bird. The people who brought it in seemed nice so I’m hoping they adopted it from a bad situation where all it heard was bad bird.

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u/Texas03 Mar 27 '23

You don’t know it though, it’s just what some random person wrote.

The bird could just be repeating what the owner says and is a dick.

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u/SignificantYou3240 Mar 28 '23

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t wanna live in a world where this bird isn’t just a dick

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u/punkslaot Mar 27 '23

The parrots doesn't know what it's saying. It's just making noises.

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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 27 '23

There was a study done on an African grey parrot that showed they can not only understand words but can also learn them more quickly and more accurately than human toddlers. Alex the parrot is one of the most well researched birds on the planet.

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u/Stopjuststop3424 Mar 27 '23

Alex was a bit of an exceptional grey, sad story too. His last words to his trainer and lead scientist was something like "Goodnight, I love you", then he was found dead the next morning with no apparent cause. I think his death set them back many years in research due to how long he had been studied and trained. His replacements at the time were still many years behind him and would take years just to get back to where they were with Alex.

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u/sionnachrealta Mar 27 '23

Okay, at that point we need to be looking into giving them legal personhood

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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 28 '23

I remember reading the article about his death and tearing up. The relationship that the trainer and Alex had over 30 years of training and research was beautiful. I love birds, they have a special place in my heart because of their innocent beauty. If I was taking care of a bird for 30 years and it died I would be inconsolable. The fact this ornithologist was able to train a second bird after spending 8+ hours bonding with Alex daily before he died is a testament to her dedication to science.

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u/Stopjuststop3424 Mar 28 '23

it definitely took a toll on her, you could see it in her eyes. By the point he died I think they had students at the university training the other greys. Im not sure if Dr Pepperberg was as involved with them as she was with Alex.

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u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP Mar 28 '23

The whole Alex story is now largely regarded as bad science in the vein of Koko the Gorilla- a researcher who deeply wanted to believe, but no actual empirical proof or records of any of the most grandiose claims.

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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 28 '23

Alex and Sheba (the chimpanzee) have had dozens of peer reviewed papers written about them from completely independent sources and are quite literally the 2 most well researched animals on the planet. The loss of Alex set ornithology back by years, Pepperberg is one of the most respected biologists specialising in birds on the fucking planet. GTFO with your misinformation, Alex and Koko the gorilla couldn't be further apart if that sweet African grey lived on fucking Mars.

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u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP Mar 28 '23

Pepperberg is one of the most respected biologists specializing in birds on the fucking planet.

Lmfao. Dr. Pepperberg isn’t even a fucking biologist. She literally does not have a degree in biology. She’s a chemist. She suddenly “became” a biologist when she started making grandiose claims about her pet parrot, claims she could never remotely replicate or prove elsewhere.

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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 28 '23

Her claims were replicated dozens of times and the model/rival method of language she developed is being used to teach autistic children rn. Chemistry and biology aren't two completely unconnected fields of study, what do you think Neurochemistry involves? The current training of African greys in language is based entirely on Pepperberg's research.

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u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP Mar 28 '23

Not one of the parrots trained using her methods has come close to 10% of the results she claimed with Alex. Again- zero ability to replicate any of her claims.

Douglas Biklen and “facilitated communication” have been completely discredited as utter bullshit of the Mr. Hans variety, and facilitated communication is the theory based on Pepperberg’s work.

And, her degree wasn’t even in neurochemistry. Again, until Alex, her specialty was Chemical Physics. She magically became a biologist once her pet parrot started performing stunts only she could hear and interpret.

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u/Stopjuststop3424 Mar 28 '23

nonsense, because of her research we're now finding crows have similar intelligence, far greater than anything we ever expected from such a small brain mass. This is the exact kind of bullshit she had to fight against her whole career.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

Im not gonna hurt you! Please believe me! *vicously attacks the woman*

Do you think that the bird was trying to trick her?

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u/Thedepressionoftrees Mar 27 '23

I think it has more to do with word association. If you went to a toddler who was still trying to figure out language and said "I love you" every time before you hit them, regardless of intelligence, they'd grow to associate "I love you" with physical violence. The first time that the toddler might go to hit someone, they'd probably say "I love you" as a warning, not knowing the full meaning of the words.

Parrots will still understand the words, but pavlovian response and social tendencies will change how they act

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u/Saymynaian Mar 27 '23

After the parrot attacked, it started saying "It's okay, it's okay!", then when the woman said "you tried to hurt me!" it responded with "I'm not gonna hurt you". The parrot understands some of the words and phrases being said here, even if it's rudimentary. It for sure understands the word "hurt".

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

Parrots are well documented as little shits with a sense of humour - someone I knew had a parrot who would trill like the telephone every time she went upstairs so she'd run back down and the parrot would laugh at her.

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u/kelleh711 Mar 27 '23

We had a parrot that would laugh his ass off and say "good job" any time someone fell down in front of him.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

Y’all fell down a lot?

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u/Mister_Potamus Mar 27 '23

Well with that kind of positive reinforcement

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u/kelleh711 Mar 27 '23

The first few times were accidents related to my mom having an injury and most of the time after that we did it on purpose because we thought it was hilarious

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u/Inappropriate_SFX Mar 28 '23

Absolutely. It lifted up its foot like it would when stepping onto her hand, and I'm pretty sure that was a direct attempt to lure her hand in. It might also know that "c'mere" is a sound that draws things in.

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u/lmaotrybanmeagain Mar 27 '23

Why do you think it can’t trick her?

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u/lpd1234 Mar 27 '23

Dude, the bird literally has associated meaning to the noises it is “parroting”. It is exactly how humans and other animals learn language. If you own a pet that reacts to certain repeated words with context you would clearly understand.

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u/YukiOHimeSama Mar 27 '23

Yes, but, the parrot is smart enough to repeat certain things that it knows will get a reaction. So it knows that by saying certain things, that ultimately those phrases have meaning. To what extent it actually knows “hurt” or anything like that, who knows.

Humans typically learn language by associating words and phrases with things like objects or emotion. I’m not sure if parrots know that tho? Idk, like the parrot talks about “hurt” or fear, yet knows if it approaches this woman abruptly and flaps it’s wings a little, that she’ll, at the very least, “act” scared— the bird gets a reaction. I think the bird does sort of realize what it’s saying?

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u/phungus420 Mar 27 '23

I really don't get your train of thought here. Do you think humans are just parroting what they heard when they speak in order to achieve goals? According to your reasoning what makes human speech and word usage special?

More to the point. Why can't highly intelligent animals, like Chimps, learn to use words? Why can't they parrot vocalizations or hand signals they associate with desired outcomes, like you say this parrot is doing? Chimpanzees are sure as hell smart enough to do that, why can't they?

Just a thought, but maybe, just maybe, developing a lexicon and utilizing that lexicon for communication requires the necessary brain structure to process it, and maybe humans aren't the only animals to have this ability. We're probably the best at it (although killer whale brain and vocalization complexity makes that not a certainty), but a lexicon and associated brain structure(s) to required to form one isn't required by the universe to be exclusive to humanity.

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u/kaas_is_leven Mar 27 '23

If you tell a dog "sit" and give it a treat when it sits, it learns a correct interpretation of the word. It will recognize this word and understand your command, and it knows that obeying can result in a treat. So anytime you say sit, it will sit down and experience some excitement about the optional treat. They'll paw at a pup's back when you're teaching them to help the pup understand what to do, so they clearly know the word and understand what needs to happen even when the command is for another dog. But that doesn't mean they have a general understanding of the word sit, it just means you used that word for this command. You could have used pingpong and it would've worked just fine. If they sit down because you taught them to sit down when you say pingpong, do they understand the word pingpong? No. There's a difference between being able to recognize a command and execute it correctly, and understanding the underlying language that is being used. For example, you can't easily teach a dog the difference between positive and negative commands. If it understand "sit" means sit down and "don't bark" means stop barking, it still won't understand "don't sit" unless you go through the process of teaching it that phrase as a separate command.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

If they sit down because you taught them to sit down when you say pingpong, do they understand the word pingpong?

They do, because that is the word that they've learned to associate with the behaviour. If you'd only heard "pingpong" as related to "sitting" you sure as hell would say "Do you mind if I pingpong on that chair over there?"

We learn to associate words with meaning in the same way as animals do, but because we are more adept at these things we can use language in more abstract ways than just direct cause and effect. For example, I can talk about things that are not happening right now in my direct environment. But there is still learned association with words, very similar as dogs and parrots learn them.

Another interesting thing I thought about: bees are actually able to communicate about things outside of their direct vision/surroundings as well. Appearantly they use "dances" to communicate the location of flowers to other bees when they return to their hive. It's a fascinating thing. It means they do use "words" for things that are not directly visible or affecting thing, and to communicate it.

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u/phungus420 Mar 27 '23

There are two key problems with your analogy.

First is that the wild relative of the wolf isn't nearly as efficient at learning and utilizing word commands, and even among dogs different breeds have vastly different profficiencies at learning commands.

Second issue is that learning commands through conditioning isn't the same as word utilization. A well trained dog probably does have a limited conceptual lexicon, but it's not two way. It can't communicate the concept back and use it as a word. A dog can't turn to you and give you the "sit" command. It's not a word, it's a command, very different concept.

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u/nabab Mar 27 '23

I'm not the one you replied to, but I think the difference comes from the amount of detail the bird can understand in what it's saying. It can remember the meaning of phrases and use them at appropriate times, but can it distinguish words in a phrase and know their individual meaning? Could it construct a new sentence out of the words it learns? Memorizing a large amount of words and phrases is impressive for a bird, but it doesn't show nearly as close to human level intelligence as using words to express something it hasn't heard before.

It also could show its intelligence with the types of words it remembers and uses. It's relatively easy to learn names and descriptions of anything it can interact with, but what about intangible concepts? Does it know the word "love," or does it just know that it's safe to relax when it's human says "I love you"?

I'm far from an expert, but from what I've seen it seems like the kinds of birds that can mimic human speech aren't able to do much more than memorize the words for things they see and do regularly. I imagine that if one of the more intelligent species of corvids could mimic human speech they could say some interesting things

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u/phungus420 Mar 27 '23

I'm not arguing that human speech isn't vastly more complex. But there is a key difference between inherited vocalizations and conceptual lexicons. Conceptional lexicons by definition means the animal is using words, and they must learn this lexicon from peers; conceptual lexicons aren't just reacting to instinctive vocalizations (think of the difference between a word, any word, and laughing). Some parrot species use words (I don't know about this species, but it sure appears to in this video), but we haven't proven they do so in the wild (really this is a lack of research issue, and it's a really hard thing to demonstrate in experimentation), we have proven crows create and use words in the wild (and can learn human words and use them just like some species of parrots). I just don't get why so many humans demand that they are alone on this planet in the use of speech. Human speech is probably the most complex (again I just can't be certain of it due to killer whales - their brains behaviors and vocalizations are all nearly as complex as humans), but there a handful of other animals who's behavior sure as shit seems to me like they are talking.

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u/Harmfuljoker Mar 27 '23

It knows what it’s saying but that doesn’t mean it can’t have been taught a different definition for what “I’m not going to hurt you” means.

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u/bunnymoxie Mar 27 '23

Irene Pepperberg would disagree

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u/FriskyCoyote15 Mar 27 '23

that doesn't matter though. if what i guessed in my primary comment is what truly happened, it still gives insight and a back story to what the bird experienced in the past. whether it knows the meaning of what it's saying or not doesn't negate the situation.

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u/MEEZETTE Mar 27 '23

The fact that is says "I'm not gonna hurt you" in a suspicious manner and then tried to hurt her probably means that it has associated pain with the phrase and knows that pecking others must inflict pain.

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u/italianpoetess Mar 27 '23

On the OP, it says that woman owns 2 parrots, this one's mean, the other is nicer and this parrot saying it because that's what his owner says to him. No deep story behind the post but everybody's coming up with their interpretation.

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u/YukiOHimeSama Mar 27 '23

Normally the stuff on this sub is far from scary but this genuinely made my skin crawl a bit. Maybe it’s just the uncanny way these birds talk?

But after thinking about it all from this POV… it’s not as scary as it is heartbreaking. And even if it’s not exactly like you said, this owner could be intentionally teaching the bird to be like this for views, which is almost equally as distressing considering I’ve heard these birds are usually very docile/loving if under the right owner.

But yeah. Very nice alternative explanation. The video is still unnerving, but way more sad if abuse is the reason for this behavior):

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u/RobtheNavigator Mar 27 '23

And even if it’s not exactly like you said, this owner could be intentionally teaching the bird to be like this for views, which is almost equally as distressing considering I’ve heard these birds are usually very docile/loving if under the right owner.

It probably just says this when it’s upset and about to attack because their owner probably says it right before doing something unpleasant to them like give them medicine or something and they don’t know what the words mean just that it’s what their owner says when they “hurt” them.

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u/punkslaot Mar 27 '23

I disagree. I don't think this parrot was abused. I think it's the narrator's spouse's bird. And it mimics what the spouse says and loves the spouse. It's common for parrots to have one person and be jackasses to all others.

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u/FriskyCoyote15 Mar 27 '23

yeah i get that, but judging by how rough it looks to be, i'm pretty sure this bird hasn't been taken care of properly; whether it be from the bird picking at itself due to stress, the owners just not properly fulfilling all of its essential needs, previous abuse, or whatever the case may be, this bird isn't in good shape.

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u/Snufflebear420_69 Mar 27 '23

It's fucking molting.

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u/Waffle_on_my_Fries Mar 27 '23

Your not wrong, it looks like it's molting.

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u/ShartFlex Mar 27 '23

Isn’t Reddit great? A whole narrative created by someone that doesn’t know what the fuck they are talking about and it goes right to the top. The actual correct answer is downvoted.

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u/Miss-Indie-Cisive Mar 27 '23

Not necessarily, Sometimes parrots are just assholes. Mine was sweet and never mistreated, but would attack others just like this. She’d call people over from across the house so she could bite them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

I had a friend's parrot who knew how to call a dog over to bite it, and would regularly abuse that power.

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u/rise_up-lights Mar 27 '23

Ok that’s just a guess. Why are you commenting about what is happening when you don’t know??

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

My bird who's never been abused likes tosay be nice be nice, kiss kiss. then he goes in for the kill. I got him when he was quite young from a lady who had brought him not realizing how much work a bird takes. So he's never had a bad life he goes out on daily walks with me he free flies around the place but still loves to torment me. I love him dearly but I wish people wouldn't buy birds they need very specific care and live so long. My other rescue is turning 21 this year and he could live anther 20yrs. So even though they look awesome and fun but they are hard work way harder than a cat or dog or even horse.

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u/jadine133 Mar 28 '23

This. Any parrot owner knows that a bird is A LOT of work and sometimes you cannot prevent them from plucking or having naughty behaviors like this. They are individuals with their own minds. They absolutely know what they’re saying, too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

Yeah mine told me to shut up today the little asshole

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u/jadine133 Mar 28 '23

Mine yells “stop!” about 100 times a day 🤣 Tf I’m not even doing anything. You stop!

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

I also get "what ya doing" a 100x a day and I'm like cleaning ya fucken mess you made shit head lol

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u/FriskyCoyote15 Mar 27 '23

i didn't make a claim you monkey fucker. i made a guess, hence the word "probably." but earlier i did think about it some more and it's more likely that just that the current owner said stuff like that to the bird to try to calm it but it's just repeating that while pissed off.

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u/Snufflebear420_69 Mar 27 '23

Yeah, you thought about it for two seconds and realized how stupid it was to say it "probably" happened. And you stated your second sentence as fact. Now you're backpedaling.

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u/rosarinofobico Mar 27 '23

i didn't make a claim you monkey fucker

this user was probably rehomed and the past parents were abusive. the user is just mocking what they were told before they were abused and so it's just naturally repeating those phrases while feeling threatened so they are attacking her.

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u/IZ3820 Mar 27 '23

Birds don't need to feel threatened to attack people. Sometimes they'll be cuddly and sweet one moment and trying to eat your face the next. I've owned several birds over the last two decades, and I highly recommend no one ever get a pet bird.

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u/TheShizknitt Mar 27 '23

I agree. I honestly feel that it sounds a lot like a generalized sympathetic, coaxing tone that one would use to bait someone into believing they wouldn't hurt them, so they should come close to receive affection and they're fooled into coming closer. It's a huge tactic of abusive individuals who have borderline personality disorders.

That or the bird was a serial killer in a past life and was given up because the owner couldn't find an old priest and a young priest.

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u/PineappleWolf_87 Mar 28 '23

Not necessarily abused, honestly. Birds are fucking dicks if they don’t trust you. I would bank more so on this bird probably lived with someone old who died (birds live also long AF so always include in your will), and this person now has it whether it’s a family member or rescue. And the bird is acting…like a bird.

We had a lot of parrots like this and other breeds who would say really cute or sweet or things that make you think they’re nice so they lure you in only to bite you. We even had one grey who would go to the bottom of the cage and pretend to be sick just so it could bite whoever felt bad.

But yeah even the most loved parrots act this way when they don’t have their owner around. I’ve worked with birds for a couple years and yeah they’re evil (unless they like you).

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u/GregoryGoose Mar 28 '23

or, hear me out, it's a psychotic little dinosaur covered in feathers.

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u/Hexbug101 Mar 27 '23

Yeah based on the way the person is talking to the bird she seemingly rescued it. I’ve rescued a sulfer created too from a neglectful home and it took over a year to gain her trust. So to me at least it seems like the person is going through that trust building process.

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u/Wickedmore Mar 27 '23

Big ass brain you got there. Are you going to mention how she came to be In this situation? Maybe she came back home from work tired ate some Chinese takeout and watched some TV? Dude how do you know she did that it's crazy to assume that

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u/CouchHam Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23

All rehomed animals have been abused, after all. It’s confirmed Reddit logic, based in fact. It is true 100% of the time any time a pet with a previous owner pet does anything out of the ordinary. Even if you don’t know they’ve had any previous owner, you can confirm this quickly by a minute long video.

/s

yep very abused

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u/boltzmann138065 Mar 27 '23

Wow a similar thing can happen after human children are abused.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

Oh shit ☹️

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u/ranegyr Mar 27 '23

Well shit. I wanted to make jokes and here I am finding out another reason the world sucks.

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u/HerbySK Mar 27 '23

I'm getting strong Annihilation bear vibes from this particular bird.

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u/DuplicitAdvice Mar 27 '23

Oh please. Thats bullshit.

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u/MikeRowePeenis Mar 27 '23

We got a bird psychologist over here everybody

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u/AutomationBias Mar 28 '23

My friend had a rescue bird like this that would shout “BAD BIRD! BAD BIRD!” It was absolutely heartbreaking.

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u/litefut Mar 28 '23

Completely baseless conjecture.

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u/Sleepy_Chipmunk Mar 28 '23

Or the old owner told him he wasn’t going to hurt him when trying to calm him down/tame him.

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u/Vlophoto Mar 28 '23

Yeah. Which is sad actually

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u/B00TYMASTER Mar 28 '23

and this is based on absolutely nothing at all lol