Talking Parrot Learning Multiple Choice

Working with Apollo on the new table. This seems to be a much more natural way for him to learn and despite all of the distractions in a setting like this he does great. He seemed to insist on the paper bowl things being balls, I wonder why that is.
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[@mrhitech6742]

I love how whenever he touches the wrong thing he says what it's called. He probably wants to prove he isn't stupid, he's just touching the wrong thing on purpose.

[@TheKatarinaGiselle]

😂 yes!

[@sempersolus5511]

"I meant to do that"

[@Whammytap]

I remember reading in "Alex and me" that Alex would also do this as sort of a prank, when he wasn't in the mood to do a session.

[@douglaswolfen7820]

To me it feels like he's falling back on an older, easier task (name the thing in front of him), because he hasn't quite got the mental energy to keep doing the new unfamiliar multiple choice task

[@alteria2714]

Yeah he messes with them 🤣

[@sempersolus5511]

Sometimes when he's stuck, he'll just touch something else, invent a question, and then answer it

[@nentendomofo]

so relatable

[@sempersolus5511]

​@@nentendomofo Job interview tip from an unlikely source

[@RC-gd7nt]

Clever boy

[@douglaswolfen7820]

The usual task is to name the object in front of him, so I think he's falling back on that habit. This looks like it's a completely new kind of exercise for him. I'd love to see him get better at it over time

[@alyssajakielek687]

He's trying to earn a snack. I can see his logic tho - Want Pistach -Dont know what human wants - remember answering questions earn Pistach - Come up with question he can answer - answer easier question PISTACH

[@dane1382]

its so cool how he isnt just able to recite the names of objects, but also pick them out from a group.

[@MamaSymphonia]

There are some birds that such excellent mimics that when they recite human speech you can also hear the noises that were going on when they heard the original sound, like cars going by or construction going on. What's amazing about Apollo is it seems that he actually kinda understands the concept of a "word," as in a sound with specific meaning attached. In many videos you can hear him playing around with words, saying the same word different ways, so he's not just memorizing the sound, he understand it's made of parts and the parts mean something. It's crazy cool

[@elenad3183]

Yeah! He also takes apart some of the pieces of what seem to be his favourites. Some I remeber hearing are these: “cork. k. or. k.” And “Shrock. Sh. R.” He’s also made his own words with pieces, like Glassk and Shrock. Truly interesting to watch him learn.

[@drhxa]

​@@MamaSymphoniayes, and what's amazing about this video is how it showcases him learning and understanding different ways that words are used and how they mean different things together. So "what's this called?" And "what's it made of?" As well as "touch the ball" and "what color?" He's def still learning and I'm so happy that he loves it as much as we love watching him learn 😊

[@fabioconsonni3232]

That"s what african greys can do more than any other parrot. Dr Irene Pepperberg was a pioneer, working with Alex. It seems they are capable of abstract thinking

[@KuXINsKi]

Shrock

[@megan7907]

I love that he says pisnack 😂

[@Aerodil]

Same here!

[@g0d077]

Amazing, inventing words on his own! Pistachio + snack = pisnack 😅

[@seratoninny]

@@g0d077 rock+shrek=shrock

[@ratm0]

It's from the Shrek croc

[@Danny-gw9cu]

Croc not rock​@@seratoninny

[@bytz4742]

'what makes something a ball' is not a question that i thought would actually trip me up today

[@Silllywalks]

Lol

[@Silllywalks]

What really *makes* a ball.. ? 🤔

[@CatGold5047]

Half of it was round, so.... Apollo gotta point

[@ZzZ-qd1zo]

Shrock.

[@aspie4live]

*VSauce voice* What is a ball?

[@glubtier]

"throw bottle" (proceeds to throw bottle at Soleil) 😂

[@unemilifleur]

I laughed out loud at that. The little shriek from Soleil

[@P1Square]

Poor Soleil :(

[@MattijsVandebroek]

Soleil took that personal

[@seventhjezebel]

Better than "Throw Soleil"!

[@teaser6089]

Arrest Apollo for attempted murder 🤣

[@zerethgames7986]

For 1 million pistachios. What are 2 bugs called? A. A bug. B. Wario. C. A bowl. D. This is a plant

[@james100uk]

d

[@unemilifleur]

Trick question, it is never A. A bug, it’s always “it’s a bug”

[@zerethgames7986]

@@unemilifleur a previous video/short answer the question lol but I like the thinking,

[@gunmandoo]

E. Touch Purple.

[@piratekit3941]

Schrock. *Bobs head in bird mirth*

[@RandomCivilians]

Can't help but notice how his accuracy goes down when the other birds are on the table with him, but when he's alone on the table he gets it on the first try more often. The others playing with the items during study time is throwing him off. Just found it funny how he doesn't wanna look like a nerd in front of his friends. lol

[@noahclaycameron]

The birds think he's becoming too human 😵‍💫🤖🐦 🐦🟰🧑‍⚖️🕵️‍♂️ birds are government spies 😵‍💫

[@ApolloandFrens]

Yeah, learning to focus seems to be the hardest part of this for him at the moment

[@MaxLennon]

@@ApolloandFrens relatable

[@ekothesilent9456]

@@ApolloandFrenspoor little dudes have essentially no prefontal cortex. Focus will never come to them, but they will love green objects, as it invokes their hypothalamus. Give em more green objects and he’s more likely to pay attention/ remember them.

[@MatchaNoelFrog]

It’s like pressure, worrying a lot, and messing up, or something else lol

[@kaitopet8048]

I will never not love the little answers that turn into questions "it's a ball..?"

[@AmShibes]

It really humanizes him hahaha

[@koalafication1018]

I love how he threw the bowl and said "ball" with great authority. He genuinely thinks that it is a ball

[@Spardakett]

@@koalafication1018 he had to prove what it was

[@mal2ksc]

If a ball is still a ball after he's chewed a chunk of it away, then a bouncy plastic cup of similar size kinda makes sense in the "ball" category.

[@neithere]

@@koalafication1018 I'm not a native English speaker and I genuinely struggle with hearing the difference between "ball" and "bowl", at least the way they are pronounced here. Should be much harder for a parrot.

[@solsystem1342]

​@@neithere Apollo already knows the difference between ball and bowl pretty well. It seems to have something to do with the shape of the "bowl" I think it might have something to do with how much it looks like a sphere and how small it is. Like, if you showed apollo a giance centipede he probably wouldn't recognize it as a "bug" either because all the bugs he has been shown have been small. Or like, it might have to do with how it rolls? Idk really would need to do some testing. Might even be he's never seen a paper bowl?

[@mmmbepis8643]

@@solsystem1342 Maybe because it bounces and in many ways acts like a ball?

[@Aerodil]

"Wanna earn pisnack?" *nods aggressively*

[@theclearskyhermit6417]

what makes something a ball ........ is it the roundness. the bounce. the percentage of which it is a sphere... apollo is really making us ask the big questions. a true philosopher of our times

[@mal2ksc]

When he said that the purple rock was glass I thought he had a point too. It looked like obsidian (which is glass, but it's also a rock).

[@MrLuigge]

the best philosopher of current times is definitely Apolo

[@southvale]

“can you touch bottle?? .. that’s Soleil :/“

[@frenzyXprime]

To be fair, they're both green lol

[@Yourlocalbacterium]

😂

[@RPEliott]

I adore that you're not fighting his natural destructive tendencies and instead using them to teach him. That's an amazingly brilliant way to teach!

[@piratekit3941]

@@RPEliott Grey's sure do love their destruction. If you can make learning fun, it doesn't feel like work.

[@UNAVIATIONTACTICAL]

why is it funny every time Apollo throws the bowl 💀💀

[@carolhamm5343]

I laugh every time!

[@caffeinatedpossum]

Because it is the epitome of what Apollo is [chaos noises]

[@TWLynx]

yeah like the long pause before it hits the ground lol

[@alyssajakielek687]

Hes just so passive aggressive. He cooperates, but takes every opportunity to just throw stuff everywhere and watch someone else pick it up

[@dovie2blue]

That's a young child for you

[@volcanical]

I just love how he still insist on Shrock instead of Shrek. Like he renamed it and dont ever wanna change it. Funny thing is whenever I see a shrek picture, gif etc. I call it shrock also. It is hilarous.

[@vukjovanovicofficial]

We have an African Grey at our hotel lobby, recently taught him how to give me a kiss and finally started bonding with him, they are an absolutely amazing and intelligent birds. Wouldn't have even tried bonding with him if it wasn't for your videos guys! Thanks for the amazing work you are doing!

[@Ryan-iw4pt]

It's sad to see birds in hotel lobbies where they can't get the attention they need. I'm glad that you're spending the time to enrich it, though-- that shows genuine care! I'm currently lobbying another hotel who is not giving their parrot proper care to stop using him as a decoration.

[@vukjovanovicofficial]

@@Ryan-iw4pt I do try to spend as much time with him as possible, It's sad for me too since he really needs a lot of attention, it is a bit sad but so far he seems genuinely happy, doesn't pluck his feathers out, looks healthy and is always in a good mood. He's at the hotel for about 4 months now and I literally adore him already.

[@luciferfaust]

​@@vukjovanovicofficialHe may like it, I have two greys and they live for company and strangers and family coming in and out of the house

[@Ryan-iw4pt]

@@vukjovanovicofficial That's good to hear! Yeah the bird I'm talking about has been there for 17 yrs and basically just sits still all day from what I've seen.

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

@@vukjovanovicofficial You are incredibly based for enriching that feathered friend's life.

[@cindee1794]

Apollo definitely does not need an invitation to throw bottle, lol!

[@spkim0921]

at 3:48 he kicks the bowl out of his way 😂 and I've NEVER heard him being upset and saying I want my snack at 6:09 😂it's because Dalton kept messing with his pistash trying to put it on the ball but it kept falling through and getting stuck, and when he finally succeeded Ophelia snatched it from Apollo 🤣I DEMAND MY OVERDUE SNACK

[@lazaglider]

I’m fascinated by how he seems more reliable on identifying materials than he does items. Really interesting.

[@candledapple]

It kinda makes sense since they're using their beaks more than anything to explore the world, so being able to identify something based on that is probably easier to do

[@misfit_wonderland]

I am completely floored that Apollo knows the difference in the movements of throw, drop and touch now! Good job. You guys are AWESOME!

[@11min20]

I'm impressed Apollo learnt to throw bottle on comand!

[@sky365dt8]

That moment when Apollo’s boys all gather in the same place; there’s nothing like Apollo with wario, shrock, and bottle❤️

[@nentendomofo]

"Throughboll" a portmanteau of throw and bottle. new lexicon unlocked

[@SpaikeeTheEevee]

I love how he got you to question what is and isn't a ball

[@enderkai618]

love how he gently taps the metal bowl, then walks over and identifies wario just for fun

[@Zsy6]

Tales of a pistachio addict. 😆

[@SakuraAsranArt]

Apollo: I can't believe the hooman thinks this is a bowl. I really am the brains of this operation 😒

[@Silllywalks]

He was imitating the girls and their "shake" 😂

[@karolinedemon]

Yess came to see if other people noticed

[@whatisr3ality]

I like to think that he just didn't want to touch wario, so he continuously played with other things hoping that he would trick you into giving him a pistachio anyway

[@PieALaMode]

i too would not like touching wario

[@yourlocalppgobsessed]

Apollo is so cute and smart❤

[@the_nikster1]

I love how after being asked to throw the bottle, he immediately throws bowl because that's what he wanted to do all along; he was just waiting for the invitation. 😂I could literally watch Apollo do training like this all day. 🥰 he also looks like he's gotten more comfortable in the new house, which makes me so happy! 😇

[@MG-op5rl]

I love “pisnack!”

[@kthom4595]

Looks like Apollo woke up choosing violence today. He’s not in the mood.😂

[@themosaicshow]

i think the little paper bowl is too small and round for apollo to consider it a bowl.

[@Gizz.YT555]

Oh my the thumbnail😂😂😂😂

[@brianhead2709]

“Touch Wario. No that’s Shrek.”

[@ZzZ-qd1zo]

Shrock.

[@bradendash]

I still am baffled you found him a shroc. Impeccable

[@holykamikaze8066]

He has it out for that damn strainer 🤣

[@thepotatotaxi2430]

He crashed out on that thing like 8 times 😂

[@Welgeldiguniekalias]

Me: Hey Apollo! Gaslight Dalton. Apollo: 🍵 This is a ball.

[@Joseph-xh1ft]

1:50 i agree with your statement Apollo :)

[@douglaswolfen7820]

Loving the new question format. It looks like he was doing really well at the start, then got a bit overwhelmed and started to fall back into the old task (just naming the object directly in front of him) I'd be really interested to see how well he does once he gets more comfortable with this format

[@oav2456]

5:14 i love how he’s just questioning his entire knowledge of balls and bowls

[@P1Square]

I can kinda see how Apollo gets "ball" and "bowl" mixed up.

[@randallwong7196]

The bowl hat, which was the style of the time in the 1920s.

[@mal2ksc]

It's a colander, which remains traditional Pastafarian headgear.

[@sv7544]

I loooove the AG waddle!

[@christopher9727]

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[@predator47]

I love how millennial-coded Apollo's vocabulary is! Wario, Shrek/Shrock, and Xbox live notification lol

[@enderkai618]

poor guy's forgotten how to say shrek again LMAO

[@AlphaFemmeXtine]

I love Apollo! He is so smart.

[@sewagedrink2775]

"Wanna earn a pisnack?"😂

[@FlymanMS]

Dalton: *explains his views on similarities between a bowl and a ball* Apollo: “I appreciate your comment on my philosophical work”

[@GigaMonke7]

1:26 “sure, wario” bro is being sarcastic with his teacher

[@TheFiteShow]

"throw bottle" *throws bottle* "oops!"

[@birbluv9595]

I love your chaotic house. Apollo is doing so well

[@inugirl1216]

When Apollo has begun teaching Dalton. "That's a bowl." "It's a ball." Is now questioning what is or is not a ball. Apollo wins, lol.

[@supaschwamal]

5:48 The distinction between ball and bowl becomes apparent: When you put a pistach inside of a ball, you can't get it out anymore. That should be understandable for Apollo.

[@giorgipiorgi]

Dalton: This is Shrek Apollo: Excuse you. That’s ShrOCK

[@superbrownbrown]

*I'm not certain if this is the case (because I couldn't see the bird for myself), but I think the noise/chirp that Apollo made immediately after saying he sees the bird outside was the specific chirp of that bird.* *I also like how Apollo really seems to enjoy being a general menace, just throwing everything around he can get his beak on.* 😂

[@degreescelcius]

@@superbrownbrown why was this in bold?

[@superbrownbrown]

@@degreescelcius *Why not?*

[@melbapeach162]

​@@superbrownbrownit's so uncomfortable

[@superbrownbrown]

@@melbapeach162 *It's actually very comfortable.*

[@whiteelephant3673]

It is SOOO difficult to make him understand the difference between "bawl" and a "ball", phonetic differences and semantic ones are the hardest, I could only humbly commend your effort, Dalton! Great job!!

[@theWeaverofTales]

Love him just walking around and naming each object he grabs lol, he's having fun

[@XavierAway]

Waiting for the day he says Shrokio 😅

[@alisa5582]

And then dance)

[@James84800]

Thought he was gonna knock out one of the caiques after he started throwing the bottles that far lol.

[@GigaMonke7]

2:20 “ *ball* 😡”

[@melbapeach162]

It's a ball Dalton see it fucking *bounce*

[@Genxxxxx]

He's awesome❤ 😊

[@Rei._.AreLonely]

"Shrek" *"Its a bottle."*

[@taplubambhos2869]

I love how you consider how he sees the world and why he would think its a ball. Shows your sensitivity and intelligence. Lots of love

[@Smokey42096]

“Touch the sock” *throws bowl and ball*🤣🤣

[@AyeshaWaseem-l2f]

apollo totally makes my day!😊

[@netherdog7127]

The way he combines words is so funny, like combining snack time with pistachios is pisnack as Apollo said

[@paupsa7712]

5:59 I love how he reacts here 😂

[@digitoki6886]

The fact he knows the difference between ball, bowl, and bell is impressive af

[@mathlete855]

Shrek is love, Shrock is life

[@merryprawn]

When Dalton said "it's in the bush", I legit thought that was Apollo 😅

[@lionessoftor4139]

I love that you work to understand Apollo and how he thinks. 'Why does he think these are balls?' You don't get mad, you just work with him and learn with him. You two have a special bond you can yell just how much work the two of you put in.

[@luciabarinova]

0:48 i love how he felt the need to show that that is, indeed, wario

[@tg9521]

I love just how loud the bottle falling seems here

[@hepcatliz]

2:44 well damn Dad, yeah LETS THROW STUFF!

[@katieheys3007]

The thumbnail alone deserves a subscription!

[@wheezus2000]

I'm never this early for silly bird video

[@user-ym5pb5gp7p]

6:10 -Wanna earn a snack! -Touch the BALL. *Throws a bowl*

[@dusksentry5836]

i love the attempts to understand bird logic on what apollo would consider a ball or a bowl, and why

[@MsFlowerpower99]

That thumbnail is delightful

[@Spardakett]

1:32 when a little kid shows you their toys

[@knifefen9915]

This is like the smartest bird i've ever seen, at this point it's genuinely starting to seem more cool than just cute now

[@MuhahahaGuineapig]

Hello

[@biggifaber]

So schön alle Vögel 😍🥰😁

[@JakeSully4711]

How patiently and lovingly Dalton treats Apollo is simply wonderful to watch. What's more, Dalton has a particularly beautiful and charismatic voice that Apollo can imitate well. I loved Apollo's reaction when Dalton showed him two bugs - a small one and a big one. Apollo: "Jesus Christ!"

[@electricsunrise7094]

We need to make a petition to change his name to shrock for my boy apollo 😂

[@user-bx2rx4bn9q]

A ball for Apollo is sth you can move around easly. He played with a closure and called it a ball.

[@Beennn32]

My favourite thing about this is when he says alright apollo it feels like he motivates himself

[@Thaltas]

I would recommend putting some rugs under the table (or around it) since Apollo mistakes the bowl to be thrown around 😂🎉

[@user-nh4kv1ly5o]

It would be cool to see Apollo do those puzzles they test crows on.

[@Heroball299]

He's so smart and handsome boy

[@clorbdorb1245]

I love that you actually take the time to understand and respect Apollo's thinking! Being consistently "incorrect" in how he classifies something shows intelligence too! He's not blindly repeating what you tell him, but actually thinking and categorizing objects in his head. It's actually so much more fascinating to see him insist the bowls are balls than it would be to see him change his tune after being corrected.

[@Aurorya]

Yeah, just like calling a pile of paper towels "a book", such a smart bird

[@AngieCee1]

Omg y'all are doing such a great job at teaching him. Smart boy ❤

[@ChrissyTinker]

Apollo at the clip where the small bowl is what he thinks is a ball : "Not a ball? Yeet."

[@BirdsofaFeatherInn]

Apollo is so darn smart, I love these videos so much ^^

[@MrLuigge]

I love pistachios but it's too expensive here in Brazil. Apollo is an awesome bird and very inteligent I always laugh when he says shrock or glassk 😂

[@Thiollier_1]

"touch... ball." *sounds of catastrophe* "no, that's bowl."

[@darlenekorson3716]

He threw it. "It's a ball".