Polly wants a chatter: Parrots prefer live calls over pre-recorded videos
Published: 7 May 2024
Pet parrots given the choice to video-call each other or watch pre-recorded videos of other birds will flock to the opportunity for live chats, new research shows. The paper, whose lead author is Dr Hirskyj-Douglas (School of Computing Science), is titled ‘Call of the Wild Web: Parrot Engagement in Live vs. Pre-recorded Video Calls’ and will be presented at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.