Apollo and Frens
Follow along as we do our best to raise Apollo to be the smartest parrot ever. He receives a preschool-level homeschooling education from his "parents," Dalton and Tori. Apollo studies and plays alongside his flockmates, Soleil and Ophelia the caiques.
Our goal is to make Apollo the smartest animal ever. Much of our inspiration comes from Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her work with Alex. We hope that by posting our progress, others can see what parrots are capable of. We also want to use the online community to share and exchange ideas on animal intelligence.
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Apollo and Frens
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Reminder that we post a bunch of Apollo's talking practice footage on our second channel "The Apollo Archive"
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Apollo says "Stop"
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This was essentially the first time trying to testing whether Apollo is ready for this level of cognitive processing.
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Hypothesis: Apollo thinks certain words/sounds are magic spells.
In the morning, if he is up before us, he’ll cast Cage Door Creak like it’s some kind of “open sesame.” When that doesn’t work he’ll remember it’s part of a sequence with the bedroom door opening as a prerequisite to the cage door. So he’ll spam Bedroom Door Creak into Cage Door Creak to manifest bedroom door open -> cage door open.
It’s clear he also thinks “Wanna earn a snack” is some kind of magic spell. For women specifically, he knows the kiss noise is very effective counter-magic when the initial spell is ineffective.
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Just a heads-up that we're going to delay the quarterly mailbag until December! We haven't gotten enough mail for a video quite yet, and we think it'd be fun to make it into something for the Christmas season. Thanks to everyone who already sent something in; we look forward to sharing what we got.
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Happy Halloween! It’s not quite polished on the website yet, but when would be a better time for our goth drop? Available now!
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Apollo ponders why six is afraid of seven.
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Apollo's been practicing a lot lately.
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A'ight we're still set to do the belated Member/Patron stream today @3pm EDT
While chat is reserved for Members and Patrons, viewing is public so everyone is welcome to come hang out
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