Laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler’s famous box-and-banana problem, which he studied with chimpanzees in the early 1900s. Depending on their previous experience, pigeons could solve this problem in a human-like fashion in as little as a minute. This pigeon has learned to push boxes and to climb, and it has been rewarded with grain for pecking at a small toy banana.
In this situation, the banana is out of reach and the box is not beneath it. At first the pigeon looks confused, then it begins pushing the box – sighting the toy banana as it pushes – and then stops pushing when the box is beneath the banana, then climbs and pecks. This and related studies were summarized in Dr. Epstein‘s 1996 book, Cognition, Creativity, & Behavior.
This is another example of interesting thoughtful bird behavior.
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It is a bird. Did someone forget to tell it it could fly? Forget the box. 🙂
That is what I thought too.
I bet if given the chance, all animals would be able to prove how smart they can be. Good video.
Lol that’s one of the weirdest videos I’ve seen in days now.. next time they should put a talking dog and I’m on the floor hehe:)
Now that is great! I guess having a bird brain isn’t such a bad thing. It amazes me that the bird didn’t think to flap it’s wings.
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