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“Glass”

Heavy metal

Apollo needs a metal tshirt

Indeed! He is very smart!

I'm proud of him too, it's really impressive that he was able to recognize and apply older concepts to new things!

Pour water! Pistash?!

Even before watching this video, I knew that’s how he’d react

No he doesn't understand... You don't need to redirect human understanding on a animal. He just repeats noises he hears, but has no understanding of them. He surely is trained enough to know if he does something at a specific sound/command he gets a reward but he is not aware of the actual meaning. That's not saying those animals are dumb. That's probably saying that the animal is more smart then the people who think a random noise a parrot learned to say that coincidentally aligns with what happening is it being aware of the situation and the word. So yeah he's probably smarter then a person saying "he understands that is raining hard outside" because no. He don't understand in a way we humans would understand. Just because you wanna think that he does, and it makes it cuter and more magical for you, does not makes it scientifically true. Facts and logic doesn't care for your feeling.

IIRC, they teach him using the "model/rival technique" developed by Irene Pepperberg, where one of the trainers asks questions and the other gives answers to model correct (and incorrect answers) and to act as a rival for attention.

@@jaxl1931 She is his legal guardian. Birds can't get married.

​@@pauliesgamingstuff😂😂😂

@@pauliesgamingstuff😂😂😂 Perfect

​@@pauliesgamingstuffonly in America

Can't wait for the day Apollo starts correcting him. 😂

​@@MaryDunford It happened actually One of the videos he's asked what the tiles behind the oven are made of, dad says rock, Apollo says glass, and dad taps it and realizes... you know what that is more like glass

​@@MaryDunfordhis owner isn't exactly intelligent. He always asks the cat simple stuff like "what is this?" when referring to stuff like books, and then asks what material it's made of. Like how can you not know?

@@ninjaguyYT😂 I hope your comment is a joke

​@@ninjaguyYTDude is completely clueless. Doesn't know what things are made out of, doesn't know what things are called, dude can't even distinguish most colors without asking... Apollo's got patience.

I'm surprised to hear so many wooo sounds and whistles from Apollo that were exactly the same from my grandparents' African Grey. These sounds are so human, so I wouldn't think they're "generic" African grey sounds, but maybe they are? 😳

Woo~

I love his little "woooo" sounds!

I wonder if that's because Apollo is taught to identify things visually & verbally, so he can see lightning & may understand the word "noise" already.

He's using what linguists called "infant directed speech". I think in this case, it's to help Apollo's more simple brain to conceptualize the absolute weirdness going on outside 😂😂

They most just repeat what they associate with items. So any material that clinks is "glass"

@@arghpee yeah that thunder was clinking just like glass.

@@TempleoftheSon he couldn't call it thunder because his owners never trained him on it and call it lightning noise lol. case in point, he clinked a tile and called it glass because it made a clink noise. "Parrots do not possess the same depth of language comprehension as humans. When parrots mimic words or phrases, they often do so based on associative learning, where they learn to associate a specific sound with a particular action, object, or context. This is similar to how a dog might associate the sound of a bell with mealtime or how a child might learn words through rote memorization. In some cases, parrots may appear to understand simple concepts like color, numbers, or materials, but this understanding is usually limited to the specific training context. They may recognize that when they produce a particular sound, they receive a reward or attention, rather than having a deep comprehension of the abstract concepts themselves." We need more research but I am still amazed by parrots.

I love how Apolo enunciates..adorable!

I like how he says “paper”

my favourite is hat

meTAL

It's the way he was taught to say it

Hes not going to do tricks at the vet.

@@MrJdubz100????????? Animals do actually follow commands

Getting a parrot to do tricks at the vet is highly unlikely. Getting an African Gray to do tricks at the vet is even more unlikely. As someone who has 3 parrots and has brought them into the vet over a dozen times over the past 15 years I can assure you of this.

I understand your name now. Your brain is a squash thats why your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills don’t exist.

@@MrJdubz100 Your experience is not universal.

Me as well. Love this bird.

Pour lightning

And instantly shat on the kitchen floor, rofl.

​@@NecramoniumVideoyou could say it. Scared the shit out of him

1:34 “pour water” *thunder in the distance* why is this so menacing 😭😭

Now to teach him "AAAaaaAAAAH AAAaaaAAAAH!"

no one uses emojis anymore

@@trentinstudios cry about it 💯😥😭😆😠

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​@@trentinstudios *_G L A S S K ._* 🗣🔛🔝💯🔥❤️‍🔥

Thunderstorms are pretty metal tbf 🤟

BRO

exactly

I am also loving the rain and thunderstorm sounds

Time for "8 hours of rain and thunder occasionally interrupted by Apollo making the bad noise".

i think they probably want him to know one is caused by the other

@@zubetp yup & beyond that, if you notice, he used "lightning noise" after seeing the lightning as a warning the noise was coming, so as to desensitise him to the noise, cause he's learning that when he sees lightning, thunder, aka "lightning noise" is coming

I was gonna say!!!

I think they figured the associative boost that "lighting noise" would give for memory retention is better than teaching a completely new concept by labeling it as "thunder," as many others have said.

aw thats so sad, what a precious story, thank you for sharing

I’m so sorry you didn’t get to say goodbye to Bubbles, that’s heartbreaking! I’m sure he knew you loved him a lot ❤

Awww 😢 🫂

It’s basically required for this kind of bird. Parrots, especially grey parrots, are very high maintenance and will get depressed without constant attention or enrichment

I thought my GSD would be afraid of thunder but we just had a flooding thunderstorm here in Ontario, and she played in the puddles and jumped over the waves every time a car passed by! 😂

My canary birds never seemed to be bothered either, they were curious about the light but not scared, and they took the thunder as a cue to start singing. Same goes for fireworks. Very different from dogs and cats. 😃

It's just average Florida

He is protected by the almighty G L A S S

​@@Leopoldsharkexcuse but it's actually pronounced GLASK

That landing on the fridge after asking want a snack is too majestic.

Yeah haha, he was halfway there and kept hyper fixating on it, so we just ripped it off

Instructions unclear, bird is in microwave

The sky is pouring the water

God is pissi--

@@simondezombie9001 😮😅

@@Here_This s o r r y

@@simondezombie9001 😄

It does sound quite nice

Ikr! Underrated comment! 😂😂😂

You maintain hair … You don’t maintain a beak 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ The don’t polish or put anything on it.

@@GourSmith They actually grind their beaks down to keep them trimmed up properly.

@@toscadonna The owners of Apollo have said they do nothing to tend to his beak. They’ve been asked about this. Stop the bull. Other bird owners might do that but these guys have said they don’t.

maybe like it is staged, like with attracting his attention with a laser pointer in 1:44?

​@@jens3309nah Watch the live streams He is like that