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The New Zealand kea's intelligence is put to the test.
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That's One Smart Bird | Animal All-Stars
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[@Yolotuxedo]

The definition of bird brain has now changed.

[@danieluyanguren]

Dhruv Kadiya more like “Parrot Brain”

[@Mr-Ad-196]

Some bird are stupid but some are smart for example those crow.

[@Master_Petes_Theater]

You rang? 😂

[@bl4xkrvng3r18]

😭😭

[@alicedoors4826]

@@Master_Petes_Theater 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@imjinhwanssexymoleandp.osl3164]

Narrator: " Many animals would've given up in frustrations a long time ago " Me: I think he's talking about me..

[@marcosross790]

Dont Take it personally. He did say many animals. No just you.

[@markassko6426]

Yikes

[@redache467]

I had someone i know in mind

[@niwar8yearsago31]

LMAFO

[@iskorpyoboy]

maybe he’s pertaining tonus LMAO

[@sureshadaveni7716]

This bird is smarter than all my friends together

[@mariammohammed9894]

Bundra bundra kitna, bengali?

[@wholeNwon]

One of your friends said exactly the same thing yesterday.

[@olehsmirnov2472]

Including you I guess

[@so_goatylike7268]

and you the same. Similar people band together.

[@sureshadaveni7716]

@@so_goatylike7268 glad you know

[@dusty2good]

I need this bird to set up my wifi.

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

before you know it, it will speedrun zelda games

[@rotciv1492]

But not jumping backwards. It's hard to do it with a curvy beak.

[@Bballer12ification]

Blake Blast 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dumdum7786]

Before you know it, it will be making videos of Super Mario 64 talking about parallel universes.

[@ecstaticpenguin768]

Hilarious!

[@HikoSeijuroXIII]

It's apt because doing that requires no brain activity at all.

[@XDarkGreyX]

My mind adds a "see ya, suckers!" each time he runs away with the peanut.

[@franga7870]

Lol

[@SteveVi0lence]

It's not a peanut

[@judahboyd2107]

I can't unhear that.

[@red__guy]

Mine adds a cartoonish villain laugh distancing away.

[@squeakersthegryphon5338]

So long and thanks for all the peanuts!

[@FutureChaosTV]

That bird understands more about physics than your average flat earther.

[@ephesians3987]

I know right ... what idiot WOULDN’T believe we’re on a spinning ball that holds water? Smh 🤦‍♂️

[@Aleks-js6ki]

@@ephesians3987 nah bro the moon landing was faked

[@FutureChaosTV]

@@ephesians3987 A planet is not a ball. Same as the impact of an ice shelf is different from that of an ice cube. But people like you are happy if they make it over the street crossing without getting run over.

[@rolandet]

pfff the Earth is round...............like a pancake

[@Salty0]

The earth is not round, it's a cube goddamit !

[@jay6817]

I've been blessed to see these birds in the wild and I can tell you they are an amazing intelligent animal and their presence is incredible 2. Let's hope they live on forever and in the wild where they belong.

[@MNZGA57]

Yes indeed and lets hope NZs Dept of Conservation (DoC) stop killing them off with their 1080 poison helicopter drops all around NZ.

[@Longtack55]

@@MNZGA57 Except that where these 1080 drops occur there is a significant subsequent rise in the kea population. They are not "all around N.Z." Just the facts...

[@matiudawg007]

​@@MNZGA57find some actual facts idiot, 1080 kills the predators that would threaten the Kea

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

​@@MNZGA57 why would the department of conservation kill endangered animals?

[@FilipinoViking]

I did the same experiment with my birb. I put my tax forms in front of it hoping he would do it for me, now I'm getting audited for tax evasion

[@croyantrever]

Same🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Brutaltronics]

Worth it

[@aedensheila7552]

Eric Kay so how's goin dude? Keep waitin for ur answer. XD

[@FilipinoViking]

@@aedensheila7552 ahh, sorry, what was the question Aeden?

[@aedensheila7552]

Eric Kay i mean how's ur tax form? Already done ? XD

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

That bird is smarter than 70% of my coworkers.😂😂

[@hendovfr5722]

Dwayne Koblitz 😂😂

[@syedidris8474]

Hahaha😂

[@TNT-ml1ll]

And your 70% coworkers are smarter than you.

[@jacquelinemcgowan533]

excellent, i thought yup how big is that little birds brain and how big is my colleagues brain, lazy yup not brains just lazy

[@blinkblinks2470]

What kind of bird is it?? I'll make him to be a pet of mine.. Hahaha

[@diracflux]

Test 42: Kea uses quantum tunnelling to teleport nut from box directly into its mouth, proceeds to break into Area 51, steals an alien spacecraft and returns the following week as emperor of the universe having conquered civilisations billions of years more advanced than us. Then it finds the researches, bites their shins, and steals all their nuts.

[@muhammadsaadmansoor7777]

Best comments here !!!!

[@muhammadsaadmansoor7777]

Wish u get a thousand likes

[@SSS20025]

That's a bit too far😂

[@fredblair4307]

great explanation of what just happened

[@TheManna2011]

Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂😆😆🤣🤣

[@tinyvr7036]

I thought he was going to close the door after he opened it. Lol Seriously, this bird is impeccable.🐦 A real tool.😊

[@ernestogasulla7763]

Amazing how it understands what to do with the stick, although its beak is not built to handle sticks. If that's not cognition I don't know what else is.

[@thediamonddust]

Seems like genuine imagination. It's incredible.

[@yyohomielack5470]

The bird was trained to do it it’s not a bird straight out of the wild

[@shadi3236]

@@yyohomielack5470 yeah exactly. No other bird would've done what this bird did.

[@BiggieTurms]

Its been held in captivity and forced to do this repeatedly until it remembered.

[@dustigenes]

@@shadi3236 Wild Crows do this, you can easily find video's. Bird's are actually quiet intelligent.

[@anonymbigfox]

I can hear the bird thinking "Hey humans! Are these all the tests you can come up with?!"

[@xx-bg2dj]

One Kea actually came up with a solution that none of the researchers had thought of.

[@yangkong7935]

@Archock Encanto blow? into that tube? (im not a biologist, but i would blow into that tube)

[@doonyoo374]

I remember meeting some kias in new Zealand,they were picking at someones campervan and nobody cared about it because they were so excited about the kias. Amazing and beautiful birds

[@dmac2168]

Kea. And they can destroy cars and make a good mess of anything they want.

[@fairlanewhip79]

After having birds as pets (free in my house) I know they don’t get enough credit for their intelligence! They’re smart, funny and cheeky.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

I know! What birds do you have? I have a cockatiel named Mittens :)

[@zorgonsdinoccolato4719]

A lot of humans cant do this

[@AlbertaGeek]

Hey, I'll have you know I probably could have figured out at least two of the solutions!

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Zorgon Sdinoccolato ikr that’s the sad part

[@valera5689]

Like you.

[@SirBork]

U have no idea

[@TrapGod_JackofAllTrades]

I always get stuck on the yellow string part. Idk how a string could possibly help me get that delicious morsal. 😢

[@bridge4]

Absolutely incredible

[@angusowen9863]

"No worries mate." I never knew that would sound so off in an American accent.

[@jonathanwells223]

Angus Owen it’s even worse with a French accent

[@genericinternetmale14]

@@monique8893 Where do you live? Everyone says that in NZ

[@plexyglass429]

Keas are absolutely beautiful in person. Never realised how lucky i was to live with these creatures

[@pbfloyd13]

I; for one, welcome our new avian overlords.

[@dustonpage1280]

"Treachery!" The arboreal overlords screeched. "We who fed you with our children, shelter you with our bones, stood watch so that whatever ailmentss that come your way will be healed with our very being, and you surrender to those bird brains just like that?!"

[@birdiebear1500]

@@dustonpage1280 kay, first of all: you are my favorite KZbin commenter EVER. Second: birds are my favorite animal 😍

[@carapo66]

Black Pigeon, is that you?

[@gustavgnoettgen]

That's so specicist! Not every avian is good in geometry.

[@jollyrogerhobbies2386]

@pbfloyd13 Of course you do Kent Brockman

[@antheairenedevilliers1657]

How little we humans know about the intelligence of animals. We are so confident that WE know everything! This beautiful and clever creature is a delight

[@lezhaosicne6387]

@Kaiser Isaiah Foo its pretty stupid to me, but based on what they usually do, its smart i guess.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

And that is why this bird is endangered and will probably be extinct in the next 20 years or so. Very much hope not but we humans really are terrible things

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

@Kaiser Isaiah Foo yeah no doubt about it people suckes lol hopefully we will wake up tho and realize what we are and what we need to do to live with the planet instead of on it

[@lynnd1874]

Actually, Kea's can be a bloody nuisance around vehicles. If they are not stealing hubcaps, they're pulling the rubber sealing off car windscreens. Since they are an alpine parrot, it's absolutely freezing in your car once the windscreen falls out. They are also rather fond of destroying car aerials as well. However, these birds can be absolutely hysterical to watch. They love sliding down snowy roofs on their backsides, it's so funny watching them line up to take turns. Ken's are supposed to be the smartest birds in the world.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

@@lynnd1874 imagine what the animals must think of us if those few things are a nuisance and destructive lol

[@racketman2u]

When we chose NZ's national symbol, we decided that the kea is too smart to be truly representative; we settled instead for a half-blind flightless chicken that stumbles around at night feeling for worms.

[@puddles20mike31]

as a NZer I can confirm that, they are the smartest animals in the country, that includes humans

[@juliashireen6195]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hitts8928]

this bird is about to start coding 😂😂

[@joshypoooo]

Tbh this bird is smarter than me

[@valken666]

Kea for POTUS.

[@anupv63]

Respect your honesty

[@hendovfr5722]

Tello 64 LOL I thought the same

[@pedrogonzalez5040]

Buff Daddy just shake the box and the peanut will fall over

[@eurasianlynx5584]

I feel you.

[@rashidkadhem2130]

This bird is a payed actor 😂

[@staffylover1950]

hahaha

[@invictus88]

How about paying for a new brain?

[@TheLast-One]

Paid*

[@TheGermanElectrician2000]

Rashid Kadhem Looked for that comment

[@ainsleepittner140]

1:47 “many animals would’ve given up in frustration a long time ago.” Me

[@brunonumerouno]

So adorable how it scurries off every time it secures the nut.

[@DogsChickensPeacock]

No cars were hurt in the making of this video

[@fayearendse3898]

Lol

[@VioletSkye19]

That’s funnier than you know, Keas have a naughty habit of getting rough on the outside parts of cars like windshield wipers, aerials etc and will wreck them .. maybe they’ve seen this and think there’s a nut inside ... 🥜

[@thatgabeitchinyourcloset6292]

This just goes to show that their ancestors the dinosaurs weren’t as stupid as everyone thinks

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Smartest non avian dinosaurs were about as intelligent as rabbits are now. Not the giants of thought i'd say.

[@thatgabeitchinyourcloset6292]

No animal is dumb

[@wholeNwon]

"Everyone"? Well, they were here a LOT longer than we've been around.

[@gongsbrandorigami5302]

It’s smarter than humans at that,level 10 problem solving skills,

[@KTChamberlain]

The Kea: Nature's MacGyver.

[@eclipse-xl4ze]

dorf fortress players are freaking out right now

[@LadySamurai88]

So amazing to see videos like this! I love it how smart they are

[@jmatt4life]

WoW!!! Totally impressed by the ingenuity of the Kea!

[@ZizzleTheKakapo]

ItS KEa!! HOwW MAnY TImEs DO I HAvE TO sAY. but seriously its amazing how many misspellings i have seen

[@abk407]

Smarter & clever than most of instant celebs nowadays.

[@RJ643]

Totally impressive!! Nature is marvellous!!

[@Starkiller160793]

They take a lot of Artifacts from the Dwarves, so they are smart.

[@dragonboimmdvideos]

ÒwÓ I have artifacts from the incubi uwu

[@mariosanders4515]

The suspect pool for "Who stole the last cookie from the jar" just got larger

[@andreagarcia3934]

Wow, life with one of those would never be boring. What a smart creature ☺👍.

[@darkknight7403]

that parrot looks so badass expecially with that beak

[@AhmadAhmad-qx6fp]

Whole new meaning for the used-to-be insult: "bird brain"

[@Master_Petes_Theater]

You rang? 😂

[@AhmadAhmad-qx6fp]

Bird Brain What up, birdy? That's some beak you got there

[@Master_Petes_Theater]

@@AhmadAhmad-qx6fp What up, friend! Thank you for the compliment! I've bitten ears, noses, lips and fingers with my weapon, lol! Well, especially during the first 13 years of my life. I'm been much more chill for the past 12 years now, hahaha! My mom and I wish you a super weekend ahead! Be well, Ahmad! ☺🐦👍

[@AhmadAhmad-qx6fp]

Bird Brain Well thank you Birdy n Mom! I'm curious how you managed to type those words using your beak. Such multifunctional beak indeed (:

[@mace8873]

You know, being able to get nuts out of boxes, isn't really something most humans consider the epitome of intellect...

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

Why people think animals are stupid is beyond me grasp of knowledge. They have been successful here far longer than us.

[@TheMrKeksLp]

When's the last time you saw a cow fly to the moon and back?

[@bjw6877]

I think it would have been cool to see more footage showing how fast the kea realized the previous solutions no longer worked.

[@sue195423]

I LoVe these birds😍 Keas are incredibly intelligent and beautiful as well❣. Their curiosity is another cute trait💕 I could watch their antics for hours❣🤩💖💝

[@GoodJob7117]

A kea once hacked my credit card to illegally purchase peanuts online.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Proud of our cheeky little parrots. 😊

[@MNZGA57]

Its very interesting to watch Kea try to break into cars if you didnt give them food when they came up to you and they do come up to you There are signs up saying DO NOT FEED THE KEA and then when you dont they seriously attack your vehicle. So ignore the do not feed signs coz they love people food like icecream lollies sandwiches chips they love it all. Even if you drive off and park up your vehicle a few miles away they ABSOLUTELY REMEMBER that YOU didnt feed them. These birds are the most hilarious and entertaining birds we have in NZ. Love them.

[@panatypical]

Award that bird a degree. He can replace Bill Nye.

[@a.z.a931]

Bird Nye the science guy?

[@panatypical]

Endless Nightmares. The bird is the word. Bird up....

[@a.z.a931]

:D

[@misssincere5762]

He ran away so fast when he got his nut!!! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@blackbeltjones2903]

Just like my one night stands.

[@aroha9090]

I just love kea so much. They're amazing birds. & total rascals

[@mguarin912]

I was once amazed at the thought that some primates used tools to solve problems, now I see it all over with different animals and it amazing.

[@Boredaff]

It’s almost like this bird was familiar with the puzzle

[@lincolnoliveira3041]

M O T I F

[@eciesz]

He was ease dropping when they were setting it up🤔

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Yeah. I'm curious how many attempts it took before bird figured out the puzzle. Attempts we weren't shown, because it would kill "Wooooow!" factor of this video.

[@ZizzleTheKakapo]

@@FrikInCasualMode Keas are smart, trust me, im a kiwi, ive seen em do stuff

[@mg2428]

HOLLY! THATS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

It's less impressive to me that he figured out the physics puzzle and more that he *immediately went for the solution*

[@CNUVAS0236]

A great lesson to human beings... If one way/Idea fails there are so many ways/Ideas to succeed in life... Thank you birdie... Love you... 😘😘😘

[@navinr.johnson8128]

That bird is smarter and harder working than my sixteen year old son.

[@sebast2002]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@Tumppi88]

But intelligence is 80% heritability 🤔

[@familleeatyourmails4205]

EnKeksiHyvääKäyttäjäNimeä you mean your dad is a Moron too ?

[@silverhawk7324]

Learned your lesson the hard way. Don't have kids...

[@Tumppi88]

@@familleeatyourmails4205 yes

[@StupendousJia]

My only problem is he LEFT THE DOOR OPEN

[@MeMe-hu8wx]

lolol. I didn't even notice that and I OCD practically everything

[@jacobferstl7]

Wow!! I love it! Such complex little creatures

[@tiggerbiggo]

I would be willing to bet that as well as the reward for food, the bird probably also feels some sense of accomplishment, look how happy he is when he grabs it and bounds away, must feel very pleased with itself :P

[@Longtack55]

Yes, a kea "smiling" is anthropomorphically a sight to see.

[@absinthexiii4376]

Birb: if I stick it in like this, wang-jangle it like that, poke it around with my foot aaaaand.... TADA! I gets the noms!

[@faceoff3315]

Smart bird 👏👏👏

[@Kayshots]

He’s so cute and quick thinking

[@hobgoblin8038]

I found myself getting excited and cheering the bird on throughout the video

[@ikaeksen]

Me: That bird cant get the food. Bird: Hold my feathers..

[@OceanicGyogō]

This bird is smarter than some humans I know lol 😆

[@magoalbo]

That’s why it is so important to have foraging toys for your pet parrots or any type of bird, if not they just get bored. They can eventually get depressed and even hurt themselves by plucking their feathers. Their brains have to be constantly stimulated to remain happy as pets.

[@uaeskils]

I need to hire one

[@bryn6844]

Shut up

[@alfredopaloma3411]

Bryn why u so tour for?

[@bryn6844]

@@alfredopaloma3411 cuz he’s so ugly

[@thatskyparrot-turtle5052]

@@bryn6844 k zoomer

[@AlPootis]

@@bryn6844 Racist or raging cause you lost in Epic's most hated game?

[@solarflare1008]

This is one of the most smart and destructive bird on the planet.

[@adamlutsch1975]

Wish I had this much determination.

[@bosstradingpro1910]

I love how he just runs after "stealing" it 😂... C'mon naa. He doesn't know about the experiment.

[@chriswinspear7965]

What they don't know is the bird was on you tube watching solution videos prior to being tested! 🧠

[@user-vl7fq3mr6h]

WTF! 1,000,000 years later, Birds will be ruler of Earth at this rate LOL

[@francoismorin8721]

The one using gravity totally blew my mind!

[@Gruvmpy]

Birds are alot smarter than some give credit, there's an experiment that was conducted on Crows (may of been ravens) where they had to understand that putting rocks in one tube would raise the water level in the other, letting them access to the food. They figured it out fairly quickly too,

[@WHITELIONNYC]

That bird is smarter than most humans...including me. 👋🏿😳😇😳😇😳😇😳😇😳😇😳😇😳🖐🏿

[@julianivanov3058]

No, it isn't.

[@SSS20025]

yes, it wasn't

[@winvsdroid]

The bird can understand our language.he heard the people who placed this set up talk about the solution to each problem :p

[@eseguerito2629]

This bird could solve the shrine puzzles in Breath of the Wild.

[@mr.boostang2064]

I find it funny and cute how sneaky its mind is, probably thinks its stealing food from the humans and dashes away like "see ya suckas" 😂

[@thecraigpaul6799]

When a bird is smarter than half of young people nowadays

[@nathanielbradford548]

thecraigpaul paul half? Try 95% 😂👍

[@koreykore4482]

That bird probably had prior experience and months if not years to go over each of those situations each.

[@nasimacdnanovic1196]

80% 😂

[@AlPootis]

@@koreykore4482 Nope.

[@rok4750]

“many animals would’ve given up already” Hey don’t forget me

[@nickthenoob4968]

Wholesome video of birb trying to get nut. 350 people "I'm dislike that"

[@chigukhan1275]

Mashallah so intelligent bird... Mere Allah Pak ki Qudrat ha...

[@danielesslinger9884]

I wanted to see a hundred of them drop when he got that last one. Like hitting a slot machine!!!

[@lionedas22686]

How much time it takes to find the solution?🤔 And does it solve the problem from the first try? 🙄

[@Arsenic71]

Proof that the term 'bird brain' would be a compliment so some humans.

[@cherrywospakrik4538]

Kea is def my spirit animal

[@markuse3472]

As beautiful as they are, this bird was without questioned trained before the making of the video.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

Was kinda wondering about that myself or if not trained the video was shortened to just the completions

[@ZizzleTheKakapo]

False, Wild Kea are this smart! And as said, this kea had not seen these puzzles before. Please dont try to make yourself look superior, it really doesnt.

[@markuse3472]

@@ZizzleTheKakapo Yeah, and if they told you the Earth were flat and big foot actually were your neighbor, you would say "as said" and believe it all. Get a brain.

[@kandiwolfe1125]

Quite remarkable!!;)

[@rborough6194]

That's the animal spirit society deserve me!

[@xfjsi1430]

1:15 "There is one last way to reach the nut." ;)

[@teddayer6523]

Hahahaha you nailed it! It’s addressed to an armless hobbit girl dating a giant ahahahahaha

[@KatherineUribe-1]

OK, definitely a smart bird, but had it run tests similar to those in the plexibox before? It seems like learned behaviors.

[@sweetbeeurbanpottery4423]

Katherine Uribe They said at the start he hadn't seen it before. But what the bird /has/ learnt is that there is always a way to get the food if he tries. To reverse the question on you, how would you have taught the bird to do this? Intelligence is measured by the level of behavior offered, not by initial success.

[@ernestogasulla7763]

No, they said it was a new setup, plus there are many videos of keas and Caledonian crows solving the four methods box.

[@raykarpp]

Wild keas can solve things like this, they can even observe other keas and learn from them quicker

[@racketman2u]

yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw a cheatsheet taped under one wing.

[@pranjalvw2193]

Bird be like, Give me sonething challenging Hooman

[@homerdrumpf4877]

1:30 our box for humans is when you leave your keys locked in the car.

[@hvm85]

"many animals would have given up in frustration a long time ago", especially humans

[@randommm1516]

This bird is smarter than my neighbor's dog. Huh.

[@arfanullah]

I bet this bird is smarter than trump.

[@DarkShooper]

*than

[@mirandan]

aaxxaa I bet this bird is smarter *than* you

[@sjakierulez]

I bet trump is smarter than your mom.

[@caroleller9414]

I bet this bird is smarter than you and Hillary Clinton thank God for the Electoral College.

[@michaelbauers8800]

Whether or not the electoral college is a good idea, can be endlessly debated. Trump's public behavior is pretty awful, and his speech patterns are of someone I would consider not very bright. Perhaps he's just trolling us all though. Maybe he's really a genius, and just talks and acts stupid.

[@nicktheodoridis1667]

I struggled solving the last two, thanks for the walkthrough

[@FurlowT]

I love how the bird is like "MINE!" takes off

[@MrMarttivainaa]

Yeah imagine if this thing was many times your size, had 5cm long teeth and you're the nut in the box.

[@immortallord2265]

That doesn't sound pleasant at all...

[@emperorclaudias3316]

Nice

[@SSS20025]

🆒