Absolutely! And their life span is that of a human or longer.

Yes I have one. Just a baby yet but very aware of everything. Since he is so young he whistles and does a clucking sound for now. Not talking yet, I can't wait as we have 9 ppl in the house. I'm sure it will be interesting 🥰

@@deecarpio53 he'll start copying random words or sounds. Mine loves making sneezing and coughing sounds 😆 but he does speak as well especially when he's cleaning himself he'll have entire conversations

@David yes mine hasn't said a word yet but he's only 6 months old. When will he start saying something? My son & daughter in law talks to him all day

@@deecarpio53 usually by a year old atleast mine started by than. When my mom would come visit me he would copy her. That was the first time i heard him speak. Just keep saying his name or hello etc. And he'll eventually surprise you. Is he attached to one person?

kathleen dudek, look at bird bath

🤣🤣🤣OMG it's like he graduates college😅

And he loves the phrase "touch purple"

He’s probably too well behaved for kindergarten lol

can he use a toilet though?

Accomplished? The bird does a lot of guessing and they keep pushing the bird for the correct answer. This isn't any fun for the parrot; they're just garneshing attention and money. People really don't understand animals and these sp-called Tiktok 'celebrities'. They only show the majority of good guesses; you don't see the 80% failure rate.

Tori is a great bird name lol

@@TheLucidChiba True, but Tori is the woman LoL

@@ihatesansseriffontslmfaoooooo

Maybe one day, Gizmo and Cosmo can make it on TV as well.

@Isabella B I don’t think anyone was planning on giving them negative reinforcement lmao

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purple

Shrrrock

pour water

A lovely friend, hard to let them go. Goes to show how close you guys were and how dedicated you must have been. Thank you for your kindness.

that is remarkable, what a special bird and bond

That's so adorable! Thank you for sharing.

@@angel2000317 yeah my old boy use to do the same with words and make up his own. First proper word I ever taught him was "boobies" and over the years he learned other various words with no context, basically mimicking. He learned "Stinky Birdie" and would shout it occasionally... and one day he corrupted the phrase with "stinky boobies!" "Telephone" also became corrupted at one point and became "Jelly" followed by a **pop** sound. The thing with Sh*tbox (yeah his name was Sh*tbox)... was he learned so quickly, he got obsessed with keys. Jangle the keys, and he say "keys" and he was so obsessed, he began to call everything "keys" to which I'd correct him and say "No, not keys... spoon" (or whatever the object actually was)... and for about 3 weeks, keys were called keys, and everything else was called "Not keys". Too smart for his own good. I used to breed budgies, and he was by far the smartest I've known.

What was his name! And where are the pictures? Videos? Please?

Yeah there was a video I saw of him watching rain through a window, he was asked what was happening outside, and he said, _”pouring water”._ Which technically is correct, as pouring rain is pouring water. Pretty impressive.

Apes have never actually learned sign language. That was a hoax.

The apes that knew sign language while it was impressive and they did know some words it was more or less faked and exaggerated. To me it seem Apollo is more real.

there's a video where dalton gives him a leaf, and when asked what it was made of, he said "paper". he then said "plants!". i like that one, it shows that he isnt just spouting words for pistachios, it makes sense why he would think a leaf is paper.

The video where unprompted, he was alone in the cage and states that *the guys name, sry I forget just now*" is outside" and also says fire and they were making a fire outside. Amazing.

Dark Fafnir, look at bird bath

The twist: The guy is a ventriloquist.

Tbh, African greys are the most intelligent parrots. Alex (the parrot they mentioned) had the intelligence and awareness of a 6-7 y.o. child and would try to emotionally manipulate his owner.

@@unterdessen8822 keas, ravens/crows/magpies, cockatoos and macaws are also really smarter too.. They say songbirds and others have more neurons then monkeys... pretty crazy to think how smart Dinos would have been

@@darkfafnir4389 🤣 I just wrote a comment on dinosaur intelligence today. I saw a documentary about Velociraptors and the palaeontologists said, they were among the smartest dinosaurs, and their intelligence was on the level of a chicken. As a chicken owner, I can tell you, that chickens aren't smart. Don't get me wrong, I love them and they're fascinating animals, when you don't lock them up in little cages, but let them roam around and snack on worms and insects. They're really skilled hunters, they have great eyesight (but only in daylight), they learn to recognise their people and can even differentiate between me and "daddy" - they treat him differently, because he's the one who brings goodies like cheese and talks to the rooster. And the rooster answers. They're very cute together, my two guys. But chickens are also absolutely moronic. They would rather try to sleep in a bush, on twigs close to the ground, where any fox or marten could easily kill them, than check out the new coop. They run head first into the fence when you try to catch them, which makes it very easy to just grab them... but somehow they think they can do the Harry Potter railway station trick and magically break through the fence, if they just hit it in a straight line. They don't understand water bowls. It takes them about 3 minutes to topple them over or get the water so dirty, that it needs to be replaced. Even the special water domes, that you can hang from the ceiling, so they can't contaminate the water with random sh*t. Sometimes I think they bathe their feet in it, when I'm not looking. So, no... if Velociraptors were as smart as chickens and most other dinosaurs were significantly dumber than that, there were no dinosaur geniuses. But I think modern birds have an advantage in comparison to mammals: Mammals aren't as ancient as them. Birds have had much more time to evolve and adapt and become smarter. The earliest birds showed up, when dinosaurs were still around. So bird intelligence is probably that much more developed in some species, because they've had more time to practice.

Check out Gizmo, too. He's also a VERY happy bird!

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I don't know, Gizmo is pretty damn happy and hilarious. My own eclectus is also just as happy and does tricks as well like fetch (down the hall, on counters, etc), roll over, high five, wave, turn around, puts food in a grocery cart, etc.....we just don't all put videos online since privacy is more important than likes.

​@@smz5302gizmo is incredible

​@@briarrose7016Ok? there's nothing wrong with it

fr though, it's kind of heartwarming to see how much love and effort they're putting in!

We call ourselves parronts! One 25 year old macaw and an almost 30 year old grey!

Parents? They just push him for social media content for attention and money. Yeah let's just promote stuff like that. You don't see the 80% the parrot takes the wrong guess. So naïve.

@@PhyrexJ If social media enables them to pour money and time into their animal, that's a good thing. You must be fun at parties 😂

​@@PhyrexJyou don't know much huh?

SPERTS, look at bird bath

Same, I've never heard them mention any interviews before

I watch them most days and I didnt know they did work with bbc x

IndoDINO KZfaq, look at bird bath

And don't they live really long too? I rescue cats but was contacted by a family member of a 75 year old woman's family who was trying to rehome her parrot that she had forever. They said she got it as a teenager. I always thought they didn't live long because I never been around them or anyone who had them. I've always thought it was so cruel to take an animal that's meant to fly and put it inside of a house. It's like prison when you're innocent and committed no crimes. 😩

​@@rebeccaspratling2865 they can live as long as humans

Yes! One day I want one and it’s one of the things I’m doing research before I get one and you have to be very attentive and not travel or be home a lot or else the relationship with the bird is non existent.

our family grey is 22, still a little rascal. His favorite person is my mother, but when he's with me he's very relaxed like Appolo is at 1:21

Marty Richard, look at bird bath

why are you saying thanks to them? this isn't @apolloandfrens, this is someone else's channel lmao

Probably not the case but they do live for some time so it's possible it out lived the owner

Pawn?

​@@RctdcttecededtefYeah, in this case Apollo was only 8 months. All sorts of reasons why a person can't continue to care for a pet, but death's less likely here

carl poppa, look at bird bath

Late to the party here, but two more, he gets a pistach!

Tony Cropper, look at bird bath

There's a video on here... can't find it rn, but it's a cockatoo, who was scared of the neighbour's terrier, until it learned, that the terrier is scared of large dogs. So the cockatoo started to imitate "big dog barks" to intimidate the terrier. It worked. Meanwhile the African greys in an English zoo had to be removed from their exhibit, because they kept shouting ni**er (yes, exactly... with gg) and laughing about it. So... kiss your parrot. It could be worse.

The African Grey Parrot... smartest known bird, and up there with dolphins, simians, elephants and octopuses. They can do arithmetic, too, and they are the only animals that pass the mirror test that can make human phonemes and actually speak to us. Makes it much easier to really get a feel for what they're capable of.

Yeah, the Knoxville zoo one. The other one on youtube is different. Still alive I hear.

​@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTrackingEinstein just has a routine. Apollo's intellect is for real.

@@JanusHoW Exactly. What "Apollo is ALSO very smart"??? Are people too stupid to comprehend Apollo is a dimension smarter than Einstein? Apollo is comparable to Irene Pepperberg's Alex, who could also identify materials. If their favourite is Einstein, bless their brain...

..or maybe that's how the English speaking humans taught him? He probably thinks it's called "abell" Still amazing, but use some critical thinking

"Bird outside" and "whoa it's a squirrel" are both mind-blowing

Absolutely not lol. They just say "it's a bell" to him. He has that chunked as a phrase.

It's more like he's learning these sentences as if they're one word. You don't hear him say "it's orange" for the colours. He usually only says "it's a" before he says bell. The more amazing thing to me is that he's learned to ask "what's this" and "what color is this" when he genuinely wants to know the answer

@@Eval999 if you watch any video of him he uses both "this is a x" "it's a x" and just "x". He absolutely has some sense of sentence structure.

Rudy The Soviet Cat, look at bird bath

He's already got a serious pistachio addiction...

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@@bradsimpson8724 omg🤣🤣🤣

@@bradsimpson8724 stash?😭😂

And as mischievous

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Look at bird bath 😋🍉

I think he knows and he's just pulling their leg, being silly. A bird's gotta have fun too!

No hes not, he's being silly. He often says the wrong word on purpose then bobs his head up and down like he's laughing

At one point, his trainer says “what is this?” And Apollo replies “that’s a bell”, using a conjunction in the correct context when his trainer hadn’t used one first for him to mimick. This seems similar to what you’re describing!

NERD

It's absolutely fascinating! I don't claim that my budgie is anywhere near this, but he has combined words to make up his own. It amazes me. For example, he combined "bird" and "angel" into the separate word "birngel." He'd never heard it before, and he says all 3 words separately.

Check out "Gizmo the Grey (Gray) Parrot" his owners have general conversations as opposed to "what is this colour".

Apollo's created the word "shrock" (there's a video of him saying "Shrock. Shrek, rock." somewhere; this isn't something he was taught, but rather a combination of words he's learned), and he's learned that some bits of sentences aren't needed ("This is a" before bell, which is interchangeable with "it's a bell" or just "bell"). He knows that "what color" means asking for a color, "what's this made of?" means asking for a material, and "what is X" asks for the shape. Whether or not that's true understanding of grammar or just knowing that there's more than one acceptable reply is... hard to say, but he does seem to know that you can have multiple ways of answering correctly, and that certain combinations of words mean different things!

Whirl Wind, look at bird bath

Not all of them are trained though

True! I have an African Grey since she was 4 months old. They are amazing.

I believe they are the smartest parrots, and parrots are already amongst the smartest birds

@@nibulsheep8214 look at bird bath

My girlfriend and I do that too!

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Patience

That's not how it works, genius

that's a f*ing weird thing to say

😂😂😂

Think you might be underestimating… it’s probably closer to 80%.

I'd say hes smarter than 80% of Americans.

What part did you not understand?

So then 90% of CNN and MSNBC viewers?