Birds exchange litter for food, the training.

The major steps I took to train the birds.
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[@ShinkoFleur]

The dislikes are from the magpies that lost their bottle caps but didn't get a refund.

[@mattymcsplatty5440]

agreed hahaha

[@thefunnyman490]

Not the correct change lol

[@andrewlewis9194]

Just like the Hansen brothers in Slapshot

[@wholesomedwarf7484]

26 poor magpies

[@nograssformeplease3664]

@@wholesomedwarf7484 38 now

[@jdigi78]

3:50 they knew they had to drop the bottle cap, they were just trying the old quarter on a string trick

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

Probably it would not happen because its hard to tie a string to a bottle cap if you don’t have hands or other alternatives

[@pdf_files]

@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 it's a saying for when you try to trick the machine by pulling out the cap after it hit the sensor

[@konzy.]

@@pdf_files Yes but probably it would not happen because its hard to tie a string to a bottle cap if you don’t have hands or other alternatives

[@pdf_files]

@@konzy. oh shit thats true, thank you

[@Peto111222]

@@pdf_files No worries, just keep in mind that probably it would not happen because its hard to tie a string to a bottle cap if you don’t have hands or other alternatives

[@waffleman4566]

3:53 Plot twist: the magpie was trying to see if it could exploit the machine and activate it many times with just one cap.

[@tulesg2008]

lol my thoughts exactly!!

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Basically

[@franciscoaloi5769]

We need this in every park! Let’s make a petition to parks and recreation

[@qu1nnn1e27]

i think it will be hard to train birds in every park.

[@endoftheworld29]

Crows are smarter than most birds. And not all parks have crows

[@blahblahblahblah2837]

@@endoftheworld29 They would if they were getting fed!

[@blessedlilyacres8674]

Just train a few birds in every park. Then other birds will watch them and learn how. They will teach their children how. Especially crows. They are very smart.

[@Cheesus-Sliced]

@@qu1nnn1e27 the hard part would be maintaining the food supply. People would need to be paid to go and refill them daily

[@maulwurf11011991]

Someone somewhere is just thinking of an elaborate scheme involving trained birds to steal jewelry. Not me though, but someone.

[@kinsbeans]

I remember the Mr. Bean cartoon episode lol.

[@ryosworkshop500]

Actually I thinking about money. Change specifically. Jewelry is not as profitable.

[@maulwurf11011991]

@@ryosworkshop500 Well with somewhere i clearly ment Antwerp ;)

[@MisterRockAlot]

@@ryosworkshop500 Well what if you find someones weddingring. Might be worth a bounty ;)

[@PawsOnTheBalcony]

My fine feathered finks! If no one else does, the Penguin will! WHAH WHAH WHAH!

[@mrnobodyinvr9762]

A patient man is a successful man. Words to live by. Well done, Hans, its a small personal achievement you can be very proud of.

[@SkillZgetKillZ]

So in simplified terms: Step 1: simple non challenge mechanism that leads to reward Step 2: Slowly and slightly replace the mechanism required for reward Step 3: Profit!

[@Bennyhanaa]

@Danny Asmussen that would defeat the entire purpose of the project

[@EliIsDumb]

@@Bennyhanaa buy it would be cool. Seems like any little kids dream

[@Bennyhanaa]

@@EliIsDumb but it still defeats the entire purpose of the project. Whether or not its cool its purpose is to be eco-friendly not collect spare change

[@EliIsDumb]

​@@Bennyhanaa Ok but it wouldn't defeat the purpose, it'd change it. If crows learned to litter from this that would defeat the purpose. You can also argue spare change is litter (cause it is), but that's a pretty cheap point. I was tryinna say that, like science fair volcanos, it would be a cool/fun project for kids to try out. I'm sure science fair volcanos weren't made for kids to go "ooo wow look so cool" like this work wasn't made for spare change but c'est la vie.

[@evilspacemonkeyman]

Trashbin humans are already well trained to pick up spare change.

[@forgottenredemption4970]

Imagain a world. Where we train birds like crows to clean up trash for food. We outsource that part to the birds. Nature literally cleaning itself up. Im positive crows could learn this easily and in fact we could even target specific trash. Like train the from straws and cups. They would pass that information along the entire country. This man has got something amazing.

[@user-ge7nk4nx6i]

Imagine a world where people don't litter on the street and birds don't have to clean after us. But apparently training a bird to collect litter is easier to train human no to litter in the first place...

[@forgottenredemption4970]

@@user-ge7nk4nx6i We both know that there are too many who wouldn't care. They think only of themselves.

[@forgottenredemption4970]

@roz bi Well no. Because we just use slave labor or pay slave wages woth prisoners. They are the ones who end up doing the work thst otherwise doesn't get done. Such is picking up cans to recycle which homeless do the work. Put simply we pay next to nothing for next to nothing. In fact city's in the case of the homeless make it actively harder for them to exist. Such as removing places for them to sleep. Such as an overpass or a bench. Which removes any sort of benefit to the economy they could of had at all. From a socialist point of view and a capitalism one our current system makes no sense and training, resupply, and removal of the collected trash could add jobs to the economy. There's no reason not to try. Because while yes it does cost money it would provide a much bigger benefit to the economy and the environment.

[@ZINHAz]

@@user-ge7nk4nx6i Good

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

This is the kind of content youtube was made for!

[@brickhouse7401]

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep And the kind of civil comments too

[@ezequieladrianminniti6252]

The best thing is that other birds can directly copy the trained ones moves, so skipping the training phase.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Yep, especially if this is a breeding pair

[@damienbrennan363]

This is absolutely one of the best things I’ve seen. I knew magpies were smart but that’s really cool

[@doncorleone8686]

This reminds of experiments by Dr. Ivan Pavlov one of the first scientists to demonstrate the relationship between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses. He used dogs. Now you have gone a step further and ran successful experiments on members of the Corvidae family. I congratulate you and thanks for sharing another excellent session. Ciao from Little Italy 🇮🇹 Montréal

[@ungratefulmango]

Not only has he gone a step further, he has managed to do so without torturing animals and children.

[@doncorleone8686]

@@ungratefulmango after your comment I delved deeper into Pavlov's past experiments. I knew about the operations on dogs and keeping them alive after experimentation for further testing but finding out how he used orphans as human subjects to carry out similiar experiments. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and insight

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Its based on classical conditioning if that's what you mean...

[@naserznaserz]

Maaaaaan.. I love magpies, and what you did is just fascinating. Love it. Great work.

[@exorias625]

you never got attacked by one have you

[@Spike-ck5tj]

That was marvellous. They're such intelligent birds. You can see them working out problems. It makes a mockery of the saying "bird brained"!

[@nickgenericusername]

This is just great! Very ingenious ways of getting the magpies to make the connection without being present to "show" them.

[@ungratefulmango]

A connection is always much stronger when it is made by the individual firsthand. Great project.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

@@ungratefulmango the same way our core memories from toddler aren't remembered exactly, but we know easily without thinking consciously of how to move around etc

[@christopherselleck5150]

Brilliant and entertaining watching the birds . Please make more detailed vedio please how to build in depth simplify. Schools would love this the kids watch the birds fly back and forth or early learning centres .

[@ebbonemint]

Brb gonna go get an apartment beside the local Lamborghini dealership and train the local birds to retrieve key fobs and wrist watches

[@georgplaz]

why not train them to retrieve the whole Lamborghini for you?

[@ettit6283]

This is the smartest invention i have seen from ages! Man, you are genious!

[@Secret_Takodachi]

Hello my name is Christopher & I would just like to say thank you for making this video in addition to all your others. The ingenuity in your design & implementation are reflective of a clear appreciation for nature and its wonders and that is commendable! Stay clever!

[@sarahlyra7630]

Basic training techniques observed at its finest. Thank you for sharing your intelligence! This should absolutely be utilized in parks around the world!

[@onlyknows8706]

Nice, that's interesting how the bird started to feed the machine some bottle caps, congratulations for the invention!

[@Edi_J]

I was sceptic, but this is quite convincing documentation of the metod. Great job, forgive that I doubted you! ;))

[@arsaeterna4285]

[@chantalrochon3566]

You are inspiring me today like no one has in 40 years. Miigwetch! Thank you! From Quebec, Canada. I would love to recreate your eco system in Canada. On my bucket list✌🏼✌🏾✌🏿✌️

[@beakittelscherz5419]

Awesome. Men in their sheds left alone with some beers ... :-D Please send it to The Dodo and on Tictoc. You need more followers for this project!

[@Hannah57293]

dodo and tiktok are both shitty sites

[@paladinsmith7050]

Fuck TikTok.

[@sgtsaltstick2729]

You sir, just make the ecosystem better. Imagine these on large scale. The amount of bottlecaps that could be recycled. We wouldn't need robots, they cost money and need stupid amounts of effort as well as trial and error in order to program into becoming dedicated recycling drones. Even then, they still wouldn't have the unparallelled learning capacity of modern day organics. Birds? They can fly, they already have a natural attaction to shiny. They've got the learning capacity to crack nuts with cars, they're motivated by survival, they breed autonymously and lay several eggs at the same time, they migrate towards places with higher rates of survival which could be artificially altered with the addition of these boxes. Absolutely genius. Bravo.

[@omarr7825]

Imagine all the birds of the world recycling, the world will be marvelous

[@AvaT42]

🇨🇦 That is amazing!! I just heard about this man and the birds on the radio show my son is listening to right now.

[@LabbHasse]

Someone is talking about this on radio ??? In Canada ???

[@anttitalastera8549]

Hans, I'm so super amazed about this with the widest smile in my face what could be imagined. Just can't believe how great it must have felt when you noticed progress from these birds. Great video!

[@chrustol1]

I'm so impressed! Great project! keeping my fingers crossed for next ones!

[@DulceN]

I loved this video, it shows that these birds do not have a ‘bird brain’ but something much more sophisticated. Great work, Hans.

[@cotedazure]

Fascinating! It's one thing to create a clever contraption to feed the birds in return caps, but the level of intelligence of the magpies is super impressive.

[@bpm9295]

impossible to watch this without grinning ear to ear - awesome project Hans!

[@alexToulio]

Clever man, giving a reason to be proud of humans.

[@valeriavagapova]

The amount of effort and attention that went into this... Just legendary.

[@Just4KeigA]

This is absolutely mindblowing. Imagine all the possibilities with it.For example Training the birds to clean the city for a reward ! I am sure they can be also trained to remove cigarette-stubs and so on. nothing more CO2 neutral than this. Well maybe it can end up totally differently and people might loose stuff like earrings, watches and other shiny stuff. In Vienna, Austria. We have a Cleaning team from the Government called MA 48. They do a great job. But i also realized when i worked at a food stand in a crowded area, that the pigeons there actually cleaning up all the dropped food from the people. And it never looked messed or dirty. SInce then i had a deep respect of Pidgeons and called them the Airforce 48. Yes, its also true they can become a plague and mess up monumental places. But still they do a job for us.

[@elisaedgceltejedacajas7565]

It's amazing and wonderfull! I really admire the intelligence and adaptability of animals. And your work is great, patience and observation of every detail. I congratulate you!

[@mylastduchess9998]

Magpies are such smart birds. I love this.

[@RubenKelevra]

Okay, so when you plan to switch to coins then? 🤔 😁

[@rhov233]

Too late. Most people in Scandinavia does not handle physical money anymore.

[@RubenKelevra]

@@rhov233 but they have jewelry which is basically the same for birds 😂

[@RubenKelevra]

@Snow Crystal nah, a ring or a ear ring doesn't weight that much. And it's easier to be picked up by the bird than a coin. On the other hand you might need to clean some blood off of them afterwards 🤔

[@lucievec6683]

If you do switch to coins or jewelry don't post on KZbin.

[@RubenKelevra]

@@lucievec6683 why? 🤔

[@DEVINdevdev]

This is some next level genius !

[@ishyl9977]

This is the best productive quarantine hobby haha you're awesome

[@AlanMedina314]

Soon enough the magpies will attach a string to a bottle cap and defeat the machine. Very interesting to se your traiing methods of the magpies.

[@Da-Sheek]

What a great idea/invention! Wish we could find more ways to coexist and work alongside with these birds and all other animals in such ways to help/trade work.

[@murzabaev]

Great attempt!!! Wish you every success in your projects. I wish this is deployed in a greater scale to help mankind to clean the environment.

[@passdasalt]

Got me trained to watch your videos without even giving me a peanut. Well done.

[@Lloret4ever]

Aww they are so cute and smart! Good job for training them and coming up with this idea! They do deserve to be fed since they are so smart and work hard for their food

[@eatwhatukiii2532]

Wow, this is fun and ingenious. Thank you for posting. I appreciate all the work that went into designing this! What FUN! 🤓 New Subscriber!

[@mhkuntug]

Are they teaching others? I wish others try to imitate the ones who got the logic and start doing this.

[@ElvishShellfish]

I think that has been observed in a lot of bird species, so it’s quite possible they are teaching each other.

[@cleoxo2566]

Bravo Hans! A clever device for clever birds. Now, if someone calls you a bird brain, you can consider it a compliment 😁

[@isasellens6798]

That's awesome, Hans! Thanks for sharing your project 😍 I love it!

[@warsameadam5572]

I like how the magpie puts the down the bottle cap the grabs it correct way before inserting into the slot. This is genius work thank for sharing with us.

[@jasonsingh5347]

This is unbelievably amazing. Your work essentially defines behavior interventions used for people across the world. The bottle caps can be substituted with speech therapy, social skill learning, addiction rehabilitation, etc. You are an incredibly skilled individual, and this work is groundbreaking for Behavioral Analysis research.

[@wiseguy7224]

This is AMAZING !!! What a brilliant idea ! Imagine if we could train seagulls to collect plastic from the beaches...

[@leonard-teo]

That is simply amazing Hans! Well done and incredible documentary of it

[@Cat_Sterling]

That is just A-MA-ZI-NG! Thank you Sir for using your creativity for the good of us all!

[@miguelpanta]

question: do they actually use caps coming from outside your garden, i. e. is this a cleaning team now?

[@worlukk]

a simple, practical, brilliant solution to a common problem painstakingly achieved. if i were a mayor, i would reach out to this scientist and extend a contract to train down town birds to do the same. imagine an entire workforce dedicated night and day to cleaning our inner cities all for the price of peanuts.

[@Cheesus-Sliced]

And with far greater precision in spotting small metallic items, and an unerring work ethic

[@dingus_doofus]

This is actually extremely exciting. If engineers and animal behaviourists got to working on this they could certainly find an effective mechanism to combat litter in cities. Edit: Although I just realised that they could also start rummaging through already binned trash just to find trash to put into the system. Maybe it won't be all that effective.

[@watermelonlalala]

They already used this system to devise click bait.

[@dudeguymap]

@@watermelonlalala lmao you really got him didnt you?

[@CT2507]

yea cause training humans to stop littering the environment turns out to be impossible.

[@dingus_doofus]

@@CT2507 It's harder to push through the required cultural adjustments in a palce where littering is commonplace (looking at the streets of Pasadena, CA in videos makes me puke inside), but it's definitely possible and required. This is still a promising method to aid in minimising litter. Especially because birds are a big part of it themselves, by rummaging around in trash foraging for food. Edit: although this makes me realise that they could also start rummaging through already binned trash just to find trash to put into the system. Maybe it won't be all that effective.

[@Aniaiphone]

Now I know what retirement is all about ! Great contraption! Thank you for sharing your ideas and explaining how it works ! Great video !

[@mar1video]

He must be a retired engineer . Using Raspberry PI and 3D printers is a great solution .

[@LabbHasse]

Haha...No, not retired...yet...But engineer, Yes. I work with 'applied AI and machine-learning'. /Hans

[@drawacrab]

I love this! Thank you for the video describing how you trained the birds

[@paulcollins4139]

Getting nature to help clean up our mess (tick) . This opens ones mind to so many possibilities

[@gunillalindblad3093]

Thank you, a thrilling and fabulous experiment 👏🙏

[@mattymcsplatty5440]

very cool, idea, now if u could train the magpies to sort recycling that would amazing lol, very cool stuff

[@cylondiycrafts5234]

This is brilliant..!

[@mayorstouch6398]

Hi pretty

[@Erik_coolman]

@@mayorstouch6398 wtf

[@ieradossantos]

There is information here that could benefit the entire world for centuries

[@nuwan007lk]

What a brilliant man you are Sir. 👏 Great job teaching the birds how to get rewarded. ☺️ And how long did the birds take to reach the final level?

[@gamerswarfare1786]

Man salute to you, there are still people innovating new ideas into inventions like scientists from early centuries for mankind, rather than completely depending on present day technologies for selfish means You should be awarded for real

[@savelylive]

Просто гениально. Вот в каком направлении надо сосредоточится миру для борьбы с мусором!

[@stedated]

I think outside the box, imagine if everyone install this stuff how much trash would clean itself haha, but we need to find dumpsters and also probably work on our products containments itself! very innovative hans! thanks

[@theomegatank1]

This is amazing! Well done!

[@matc87]

this is brilliant. there foraging and being rewarded and the environment is being cleaned 🤯 nice work

[@arshanskiysergey2791]

amazing! Wish somewhen it would be global streets cleaning and bird feeding program)

[@avecrux333]

Amazing....so impressive...and delightful....! Just love to see nature interacting with human ingenuity this way. Animals are far smarter than we ever suspect.

[@priyaloganathan5110]

Wonderful idea, great research, observations and very well done. Would be great, if there is way to increase the quantity of food and offer different treats.

[@HiLoveLeighs]

Love, love, love this. Brilliant, and the birds are just amazing.

[@swod1]

This is the same way I train my employees

[@hippotek1]

This is truly amazing! Not only did you build a truly sophistiacetd automated bird feeder, no, you actually taught the birds to understand, what they would need to provide as payment for the food. This goes far beyon merely "training" the birds to perform a trick.#

[@ReodorF1]

I have one question how many beers does he drink daily to feed the birds lol cool video

[@Alowne00]

in 100 years in sweden you'll find all sorts of random holes with bottle caps in it thanks to this guy :P ahahah

[@newlum]

what a great idea, thank you!

[@Andrew-Ryan]

Others have said it but I’ll say it again. This needs to be done all over the world.

[@sillysad3198]

you need to initiate a culture of bottlecap collection. the young generation should get involved

[@bewstre]

How fantastic! That would be a brilliant eco initiative for parks and public areas

[@ChuZZZta]

I wonder if they start colecting some random bottle caps from street or they are just searching them in your garden? Is this experiment is still active? Traing the wild animals is though job tho :)

[@naserznaserz]

I'm hoping there will be a follow up of something like that

[@RubenKelevra]

Hope they don't start to steal bottle caps from people 😂

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

He very likely threw bottle caps in his yard to incentivize the birds to search for the caps themselves instead of simply having them readily available at the table.

[@que_93]

Absolutely brilliant! A good use of technology, and kudos to his inspiring ingenuity.

[@brad1840]

You need to work on the user friendliness of your system. Make it easier for them.

[@ahungryzygote2917]

I've been wanting to train birds to pick up bullet cases from my backyard after a day of shooting, in exchange for food. Thank you for this!

[@AndreLaurin]

I just love this idea and project. Looking forward to see what the future holds for this. Thank you for sharing.

[@poptya]

This should get government funding for picking up cigarette butts

[@skewty]

I disagree. Birds might grab recently discarded and still lit cig buts and drop them on highly flammable land by mistake.

[@alessandrog5261]

You’re a genius! Compliments! 🤩

[@aplmlixomarinho6499]

Brilliant! will it work with cigarette butts I wonder...

[@pmlm1571]

Thank you from California, such a great study and fun for the birds, good work!

[@crazyman3390]

I have a question. So if they didn’t find any bottle caps after, say a week or something, will they lose the memory to do this?

[@hollow_art9099]

I don't believe so, birds and most animals in general have a much better memory than we think. They might need a refresher though, maybe put a bottle cap next to it to remind them.

[@quitlife9279]

I would like to see this tested too.

[@jackwilbur9419]

What’s not to like about this ? Thanks for sharing. You’re a very patient guy. Lol

[@qdexdaz]

I see that the caps you provide are metallic only, no design on them. Have the birds started bringing in bottle caps from elsewhere yet?

[@spockslefteyebrow8327]

At some point they must have tried any small circular object they could find. Birds are incredible.

[@davidesguevillas]

This is one of the best ideas I have seen in a while. I immediately subscribed. I am going to share this with other people.

[@sylviarosario2715]

Loved this. Animals are a joy! Birds so smart! Good job!

[@brettrichardson7924]

Very cool. Makes me rethink the social behavior we have with scavenger animals such as raccoons or pigeons.

[@shadowcasterstudios4042]

so you have made Bird Brains a compliment rather than an insult

[@zapantastic]

Excellent. I thought those were pet birds. But brilliant discovery. Hope to replicate it in my garden