This Parrot,s no birdbrain when offered the choice between a black token and an orange token Neo the kea a type of parrot that lives only in New Zealand chooses the black one that because over time figured out that choose the place toke more likely to get him a tasty treat. Scientists have observed primates using math to make diversion it the wild but no one had ever observed birds using math before. We knew keas were smart researcher Amalia Bastos says but we wanted to test their knowledge of probability or their ability to figure out how likely an event would happen. for the first part of the experiment Neo and five other keas were encouraged to use their beaks to pick up black or orange tokens from the ground. They were given traits if they picked up black tokens and nothing if they chose orange. Next researchers mixed up the tokens in clear jars. they pick up one token from each jar and hide them in palms before offering them to the birds the keas preferred tokens form jars that had more black ones then orange showing they were playing the percentages.That makes kea the first animals outside of the great ape family (and humans) that use probability in their decision making process all those black tokens add up some seriously smart birds. New the kea uses his black to point to which hand he thinks is holding a black token. The kea is the world's only mountain dwelling parrot from called book national geographic kids
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