Bird works door motion detector - GIF

[Jon]

Bird works door motion detector.




Previously:

Jet bird strike + payload dump + explosion - video
Floating dock bird repelling robot - GIF and video
bird strike through windshield of Cessna 210
Bird makes tool to get food pellet GIF
Feeding birds out of your hand - GIF and photos

[Toolmaker51]

If that's learned, does he get a frequent customer card?

[Ralphxyz]

learned? you mean birds have intelligence?

Ralph

[Toolmaker51]

Possibly.
For Starters;
http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/b...umbs-gif-73213
http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/b...llet-gif-54401

[Ralphxyz]

It would have been interesting to see how it learned, or is it just flapping around and the sensor picks it up. We need to see it do it again!

Ralph

[Hoosiersmoker]

There are a number of videos showing crows using cars to crack nuts for them. They deliberately drop or set the nut on a road and wait for a car to run it over then swoop in and eat the nut meat. Interesting that they have made enough logical connections to develop that particular method.

[Toolmaker51]

Different animals adapt to their immediate, likely unnatural environment. It just has to be, that one discovers or observes something it can duplicate and others pick up on it. Great proof toward 'survival of the fittest'; if not evolution, because same species elsewhere haven't developed same trick.

Can report one instance, repeated everytime I mow. Of all the birds common to our area, robins and orioles follow me, where shorter grass reveals all kinds of treats. I suspect its bugs because various random seeds are evident, mown or not.

[Ralphxyz]

Check out the videos on youtube of the octopuses intelligence and adaptability.

Ralph