I think you should try a plastic slide instead of metal

This is fascinating & adorable. Im a parrot researcher & trainer. Im studying the kea for something, & am curious about what are their knowm breeding behsviors and rituals? Can anyone explain some of that to me? And it looks like your adorable gang of thugs are well occupied and happy. This is adorable and an innovative idea.

I love it Kea❤

kinda late to the game here but I would think the slide should be wider. Maybe even up to one meter wide. If they like to roll down surfaces, they would need enough room to be comfortable that they wouldn't fall off.

Why Is his name plankton

Two years to late to the party but here's my experience: I have a little Indian Ringneck. When she sees a mirror, she'll toddle over, tap the glass a few times, inspect it for about 30 seconds and then basically ignore it. I don't think she recognizes that it's a reflection of herself but she most certainly realizes that it is not another bird. My mum's cockatoos are the same, they don't care at all about mirrors, they know they aren't other birds.

CHICKEN SOUND NOT KEA SOUND

Short and informative, deserves a sub.

Mr Kea sir! We have found this strange portal to another world! Excellent, let's move it to another location and see if the location on the other side changes! Sir! All attempts to relocate the portal have resisted our efforts!

When i was young, the old folk in the town where i lived would hire a bus from Midland Motorways and my father as driver for a week-long trip to some part of the South Island. Always looked forward to going over Arthurs' Pass (between Canterbury and the West coast) because, sure enough.....Keas. The cheeky devils would walk/hop right up to you, and once, when i was distracted, unraveled my shoe laces which ended up with me flat on my face.The scene was always enlivened by dad's shouts..... "Don't let the buggers onto the bus"!. He had had quite a few experiences with keas when he was a lad, rabbit shooting in the high country, but they always fascinated me with their cheek and obvious intelligence.

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do keas like getting wet? I would imagine they might not be too "kean" on sliding down a wet slide into a pond..

So cute kea

The older keas in the group enclosure seemed to want to explore what was in the mirror while the juveniles just wanted to destroy it. I think the adults have into the juvenile chaos and let the kids have fun. Given time without the juveniles, I’d be interested to see how to adults who showed true interest in their images in the mirror would react with longer access.

😂😂😂 cute 🥰

I think they're too used to seeing themselves anyway which is why they didn't care for it other than to destroy

A lonely kea would show a strong interest in it's reflection I think. For these, may it be their reflection or a real parrot, it's just another kea ! it doesn't matter. A lonely bird would make it's reflection a companion, I've seen it many times, with those birds that are not "in love" with there caretaker and still a bit frightened by humans. But a bird whose 'social needs' are met will understand the mirror and will make use of it, for training and doing silly funny things in front of it and speaking to itself things like : "that's a good bird !" "pretty bird !" "kisses !", all knowing it's talking to itself ... But whatever it is, a parrot needs to investigate it with it's tongue and beak, and somewhat crack it open, seeing is just never enough for a psittacine.

Cameraman " here's a piece of paper for you to play with" Kea " gimmie" " no mine'.

Kea Vanity Rating: 1/10 Kea Destructive ability: 8/10 Kea Cuteness: 11/10

Thank u so much for this informations, today was the first day I heard the „Whistle“ and I didn’t recognize before (I work with keas 21 years) and now I found your video about it and it helped me so much

Love the doves (?) in the background singing Whoomp! There it is! while the kea work on the log.

Phantastische Vögel……..😂

Tough crowd, seems like its not easy to make them laugh

This is Bruce!

Amazing, would like to know more about crows that solved it first attempt. Also if they had a chance to communicate with crows that had already completed the task before they undertook it.

Kea sees mirror. Kea reaction: "Oh , a mirror , I'm gorgeous . Where's the food?"

They know the mirror is an object and therefore dont think their reflection is another bird?

Honestly, I think they were like 'oh, there's my reflection. Well... that was fun for a second - I'm gonna go play with something more interesting!'

Where are you based? Auckland or south island?

1:05 Aw poor guy :(

One was stepping forward and back, he definitely was testing of it was himself.

I've heard that keas are the most indigent bird in the world.

Thanks for this video. Sorry the Dunning-Kruger brigade adds to any comment section. How beautiful to see other birds feeding him. Didn't know this happened with older birds.❤ Grateful for folks raising conservation awareness. Happy trails, all. ✨

Several things come to mind but the first is that their reflection is not a novelty to them; humans didn't just think one day 'hmm, wouldn't it be great to invent a thing that lets me see myself for the first time', the mirror was invented because it does a better job than the other things we'd previously seen our reflections in. Point being, a reaction to a mirror test works on the basis that until that moment the creature had no idea what it looked like. Since water is kind of important to animals, I don't think that is the case. Second thing that you touched on in the video is interest in one's own reflection, someone below mentioned a vain peacock who loved mirrors. On that basis one would expect birds of paradise to be more preoccupied with their reflection since appearance is key. If strength or offerings are the courtship test (fighting or gifts of pebbles for example) one might expect such animals to be less concerned with their own reflection. I imagine you'd also have to take account how 'playful' a species is; we know what mirrors are and know what they do but that doesn't stop us being amused/surprised when we go into a hall of mirrors.

I think there is a specialization of intelligence. Parrots and other birds do not have visual intelligence, but have grasping intelligence.

“Yep, I look cool. Now back to destruction.”

I would like to see the keas react to a type of puzzle

I do wonder - babies already have more experience - is it possible that by showing them examples of the two worlds connecting you biased them, in a way your babies have already been biased against?

Please glue soft lines on the corners of the metal structure to preserve the bird's feet.

Anyone who has ever had a budgie will know that parrots just get used to seeing their reflection like us humans. The mirror (especially one with a bell) quickly becomes an object of enjoyment. Or in the Keas' case an object for destruction!!!

There a smart as chimpanzees. There literally the alphas of parrots

How come it can't 3d print a new beak? All…… smart & stuff? Kidding. They should fit it with a prosthetic beak. I saw an eagle with one somewhere here on youtube. Or… I think it was an eagle?

I may sound stupid not knowing that, but is that mirror reflecting full wavelength spectrum the bird can see?

Cute bord

For a proper test, it's necessary to give the animals a chance to learn how mirrors work. So you'd want to get a mirror that they cannot destroy, and affix it permanently in part of their enclosure. Once they have had a chance to thoroughly explore the mirror, then a mirror-mark test can be done. Most animals, including humans, react to a mirror the first time they see it as if they are looking at another individual. They try to touch them, talk to them, and will often look behind the mirror to try to get another view of the 'other animal.' The self-aware ones figure out what's going on later as they continue to interact with it.

seems like they wanna free the bird trapped in there? ....wild guess but how someone from the 80's would think it's a demon in the mirror if you used super flat monitors that turns into mirror when switched of :D might be wrong tho :D

they sound like Orca at times

I dont understand why the slide was going into water; why not have it onto land?

Great experiment! Thank you

It would be interesting to see whether the results would be the same for 19 month old infants if they controlled for their caregivers use of electronics. Maybe the infants are only mimicking other peoples differing levels of interest between real and screen stimuli. Also it would be good to to see whether the kea still believe in a continuous virtual and real world after a test the only gave a reward in either a real of virtual space, and then test whether they still perform the same way in a different mixed reality test. I guess I wonder how much is associative conditioning and simple probing, and how much is this belief.