{"id":892,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/clever-parrot-breaks-identification-world-record\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","slug":"clever-parrot-breaks-identification-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/clever-parrot-breaks-identification-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever parrot breaks identification world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-09 10:03:34<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A brainy bird has broken the Guinness World Record for the most items identified by a parrot in three minutes.<BR><br \/>\nApollo &#8211; a four-year-old African grey parrot from Florida who boasts 2.8 million TikTok followers &#8211; secured the record after correctly identifying items such as a rock, a block and a sock last December.<BR><br \/>\nThe parrot&#8217;s owners Dalton and Victoria Mason hope that the record showcases the &#8220;natural intelligence&#8221; of animals that is sometimes underestimated.<BR><br \/>\nThe couple said: &#8220;Our mission is to spread awareness of the natural intelligence found in animals. We hope that our title can change the meaning behind the phrase &#8216;bird brain&#8217;.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe pair keep Apollo stimulated with his favourite treat of pistachio nuts and have taken inspiration from the work of animal psychologist Dr. Irene Pepperberg &#8211; whose methods enhanced the brainpower of an African grey parrot called Alex.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-09 10:03:34 A brainy bird has broken the Guinness World Record for the most items identified by a parrot in three minutes. Apollo &#8211; a four-year-old African grey parrot from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}