Record-Breaking Parrot Can Identify and Name Objects
Record-Breaking Parrot Can Identify and Name Objects
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9 de out de 2024 22:35
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Parrots are known for being able to copy some of the sounds that people make — they might squawk "hello" or "how are you?" if they get used to hearing words and phrases like these. They might even say some rude things! Some birds are also able to learn the names for objects — and identify them. And a 5-year-old parrot in the US has been recognized by Guinness World Records after correctly identifying 12 objects in three minutes. That record-breaking bird is an African gray parrot named Apollo, who lives in Florida. He can identify things like books, bugs and socks. He's become popular on TikTok, where he has about 3 million followers. He also has around 1.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel called "Apollo and Frens." And a TikTok video of Apollo asking questions from 2023 has been watched 66 million times. Apollo actually broke the record in 2023 but he's among the stars in the Guinness World Records book that was released in September. The parrot is owned by a couple named Dalton and Victoria Mason. They're content creators and they've been working hard to train the bird. The owners say they teach Apollo as if he were a child of preschool age. "We teach him as much as we can," the couple told Guinness, adding that they focus on things that Apollo wants to focus on. Researchers have found that some African gray parrots are able to do better at some cognitive tasks than 5-year-old children. And Apollo's owners plan to keep teaching the bird to see how much he can learn and how many more records he can break.
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