[HN Gopher] Pet parrots prefer live video-calls
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Pet parrots prefer live video-calls
Author : agiacalone
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-05-02 18:00 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| Shermanium wrote:
| "animal internet" sounds like a future bubble. who funded this
| besides U Glasgow? imagine having to pay another monthly bill for
| pet internet!
| idle_zealot wrote:
| Apparently the parrots got along fine using FB Messenger to
| call each other, so rather than a distinct "animal internet"
| it's more "animals on the internet". I suppose that's what
| happens when you invest effort in designing UI that a toddler
| can use.
| simcop2387 wrote:
| This is why years ago I bought the domain www.omeowgle.com that
| I never got something working for at the time. I was going to
| setup a video call system for my family to call my cat (and
| maybe eventually some friends cats too). Now I'm just hosting
| some social media for my cat on the fediverse there.
| https://www.omeowgle.com/@buzz
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| Omegle for parrots would be called parrot-dice right?
| itishappy wrote:
| how about Stochastic Parrot?
| Freebytes wrote:
| I have totally wanted to build out "pet VR". Put an animal on a
| type of treadmill in a virtual world and let them run around.
| The major issue with the idea is that dogs rely on smell quite
| a bit so it would likely not be a decent replacement experience
| for them versus going outdoors.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| "animal internet" is no where near as interesting as the idea
| that pet parrots can recognize the images on a tablet as another
| parrot that they are interacting with in real-time.
| a1369209993 wrote:
| Why wouldn't they? Humans can recognize black and white images
| on a 1960s-era videophone prototype as another human they are
| interacting with in real-time, and it's not like parrots have
| any significant difficulty recognizing other parrots in
| general.
| TomWhitwell wrote:
| "Birds don't see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens--their
| flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours" https://news.no
| rtheastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
| ceejayoz wrote:
| Passing the mirror test is pretty rare in the animal world
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test). Birds aren't
| widely good at it. They may have similar challenges in tying
| a depiction of something to the 3D physical real object.
| rqtwteye wrote:
| One of our foster dogs would bark and growl at dogs on TV. I am
| pretty sure she would have interacted with them if the TV dogs
| would have responded to her.
| astura wrote:
| This appears to be a different study about parrots making video
| calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219
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| Same researchers though, or at least appears to be.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Someone should make "Omegle for Parrots" and let them hang with
| random parrots from around the world online whenever they feel
| like it.
| parpfish wrote:
| tangent:
|
| i remember when chat roulette went viral in ~2010 and it
| introduced the general public to the 'video chat with random
| strangers' app concept. It was _everywhere_. My grandparents
| knew about it.
|
| but now whenever people talk about 'video chat with random
| strangers' they always use omegle as the reference point. I
| don't recall it ever breaking into the public consciousness.
|
| did everybody forget chatroulette? what happened?
| mikestew wrote:
| _did everybody forget chatroulette?_
|
| After the first couple of penis shots, I'm sure ChatRoulette
| users have done everything they can to forget ChatRoulette.
|
| Having never used it, did Omegle somehow avoid this fate? If
| so, how?
| bagels wrote:
| No, it did not. It shut down due to accusations of not
| doing enough to police users.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Omegle had the same problem.
|
| I'm pretty sure it would be the same problem on a parrot
| oriented anonymous random video chat network.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Omegle had text chat, too, which I would guess had a lot more
| users than the video chat (= more name recognition overall).
| Plus it's easier to say and type :P
| abruzzi wrote:
| Kind of off topic, but my pet parrot (a Mitred Conure) gets off-
| the-hook loud whenever I try to watch Hitchcock's The Birds. The
| movie has a lot of bird noises (and strangely enough an
| electronic music score thats not really audible as a score--it
| just makes the squawks denser) but I don't know if he's trying to
| engage or mimicking.
| yareally wrote:
| My parrots (Green Cheek and a Budgie) can't stand hearing other
| bird calls. Freaks them out (even the ones in the console/pc
| version of WingSpan[0]). A majority of bird calls in the wild
| are territorial and it seems to freak them out the most in the
| Spring when their hormones are at their highest, so it's likely
| related.
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| I haven't thought too far into it, but I imagine they freak out
| more when it's a hawk/falcon call than a songbird.
|
| [0] https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/
| 1-6 wrote:
| I'm curious now, can a parrot tell the difference between a real
| parrot and an AI generated one?
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