Can Wild Parrots Solve Puzzles?

We all know parrots are smart, but can they solve puzzles? I wanted to test the intelligence of my local Sulphur-crested cockatoos so I designed this puzzle using 3D Printing and Laser cutting. The results were really, really interesting!

You can find the files to create this puzzle on my Patreon (coming tomorrow) -

Eastern Long Billed Corella works out his puzzle box

[gwammeh]

“...and he eventually just tips it over.”

Bird: 1
Human: 0

[DJBlfry]

"Eventually he just tipped it over"

I mean, he solved the puzzle, just not by your rules.

[JeremyPayne]

I feed wild cockatoos in my backyard in a bird feeder, they soon watched me and where I got the seeds from which i keepet in a tub with a lid on, came.home on day lid of bird seed everywhere and three cockatoos sitting on the fence looking at me.

[LilliCherry]

My uncle, who lives in Australia, told me that his neighbours fed the cockatoos everyday. Then they went on a vacation and the cockatoos destroyed the wood on their windows

[alnimri]

The gasp of a proud father when he first solved it is priceless.

[nyther]

"In the next morning I woke up and found my door has been lockpicked open and my kitchen was a mess with empty seed bags all over the floor. I also noticed my phone was missing and after I got a call from my bank via the landline about some weird transactions on sunflower seeds, I then went to my computer to investigate furthen and I found out that all my passwords have been changed"

[Francis-ofcw]

These guys are so incredibly smart. They are cautious because they probably know humans can make traps and they might have been trapped before. Even the way they move, everything is so human-like

[notmyrealname]

Parrots have incredible intelligence and the emotionally capacity of a toddler. A toddler that can live for 80 years and bonds with 1 particular human (if kept as a pet) more than anyone else.

Incredibly high maintenance pets emotionally, physical needs, and in time. Huge respect to those who can give them a good home, and those working in the field of conservation, and protecting wild habitat!

[vatra]

Something tells me a kookaburra had something to do with his eye injury.

[bernhardgro]

First step: Lick the glass
Parrot: Ah yes, I understand everything now.

[Katharoni]

Watching animals doing these sorts of things is always so fun and fascinating. You can see them think, you can feel what they're thinking.

[CaIIMeTree]

It's so adorable how they hold food, I actually have a parrot myself named loki and when he gets done finishing, he closes his little hand and looks like he is getting ready to fight me, and he will scream and it's just scary..

[Crazybirbhooman]

This cockatoo: smart
My lovebird: smart
My cockatiel: flies into walls

[nathanielli]

The lock picking bird: “ One is binding, two is also binding, let’s go back to one and try again.”

[notoriouscruyff]

My man literally made an all-in like: "I'm going to pull out this thing. If I die, I die with my stomach filled"

[ClingyParasite]

8:10 "Adopt Denmark" As a swede, i fell like it is my duty to adopt Denmark

[elizabethhenning]

I love how the second bird raises and lowers his crest like he's thinking.

[Toolgdskli]

One year later, Popeye gets his seeds after solving mathematical equations.

[ridiculousrandy]

My favorite thing about these birds is how well their eyes convey emotion. My dad has a Moluccan, and the look of ">:( what the hell" is his signature expression.

[EnzoZambrotti]

The guy who failed the Tutorial in Cuphead seeing a bird solve this puzzle: “shit”