Sneaky Kea Raids A Garbage Bin | The Smartest Parrot | BBC Earth

just watch this Kia raiding a wheelie bin it's using its brain as a chess player does to work out a sequence of moves which logs need to be shifted in what order to allow it to open the bin and it isn't just clever it has Brawn as well as brains this isn't a trick the bird was taught this Kia is a wild creature it figured out the problem without any human prompting the perfect opening [Music] Gambit observations of intelligent Behavior like this have brought scientists from across the world to test the Kia's abilities in its natural habitat in Mount Cook National Park in this test the wild Kia is offered some butter a favorite Kia treat sandwiched between two plastic cylinders it can only get the reward by dismantling the apparatus in exactly the reverse order in which it was assembled this would tax the Ingenuity of a monkey or even a young child after a bit of trial and error the Kia has solved the puzzle meanwhile another bird is watching and learning from the first Kia's moves [Music] when it comes to the onlooker turn it emulates the first Bird's actions solving the problem to claim its own reward

Channel: BBC Earth

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Length: 2min 32sec (152 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2009