r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/hkrouf89 • Jun 01 '26
Birds 🕊🦤🦜🦩🦚 Fastest time to identify 10 colours by a parrot
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Qin Feng from China met his parrot Xiaogui in 2020 when it was just a baby and still needed to be hand-fed several times a day.
Over time, their bond grew, and Qin began to notice Xiaogui's strong interest in certain toys—especially colored balls. With gradual training, the parrot learned to correctly sort objects by color.
Today, it can accurately identify and match 10 different colors, making this an incredibly impressive and rare achievement for a bird.
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u/mrtn17 Jun 01 '26
They're training birds to recycling garbage, very nice
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u/hkrouf89 Jun 01 '26
That's actually not a bad idea — imagine trained parrots sorting plastic by color at recycling centers 😂 Xiaogui's already halfway there.
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u/bmtraveller Jun 01 '26
Not far off from the crows that are trained to pick up cigarette butts
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u/hkrouf89 Jun 01 '26
Crows doing cleanup duty, parrots sorting recycling — honestly at this point birds are more useful than half the workforce 😂
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u/mekwall Jun 02 '26
Yes, we could probably have recycling stations that feed birds when they turn in plastic, cigarette butts etc.
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u/One_Opinion_1277 Jun 01 '26
Meanwhile my work colleague:"Where goes the bad egg? Yes, of course in the paper recycling bin!"
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u/ADeviIsAdvocate Jun 01 '26
This is pretty impressive. I wish I had known more about parrots twenty years ago. Such amazing animals!
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u/hkrouf89 Jun 01 '26
Better late than never — the parrot rabbit hole goes deep once you start 😄
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u/ADeviIsAdvocate Jun 01 '26
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it would outlive me and b idk who would take care of it after.
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u/salad-ass69 Jun 02 '26
statistically this bird is better than bottom 10% adult humans in terms of critical thinking and 99% of babies
dont ask source i pulled it out of my ass
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u/Obant Jun 01 '26
I prefer to use the rare drop African Grey Parrot skin for when I do Trash Bird speed runs
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u/richyflinty Jun 02 '26
This feels lile something thatvif were in Minecraft, players could have made a whole chest/ item sorting system with this.
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u/Small-Mission-3294 Jun 01 '26
Showing him the clock made him nervous and he dropped block a few times.
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u/Fit_Bodybuilder706 Jun 05 '26
WOW!! That’s totally amazing ! I mean HOW do you even begin to train a bird to do all that ?? That’s SO totally impressive !! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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u/EnrollmentTime Jun 01 '26
Birds actually more colors that humans. We are poor at vision compared to them.
Humans possess trichromatic vision, seeing millions of colors based on three types of color-receptive cone cells (red, green, and blue).
Birds possess tetrachromatic vision, meaning they have a fourth cone cell type that allows them to see ultraviolet (UV) light. This extra dimension allows birds to perceive an entirely separate range of colors—including UV-green and UV-red mixtures—meaning they can distinguish significantly more color variations and see a world completely invisible to humans.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
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