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New Zealand parrot intelligent enough to use touch screen, yet incapable of differentiating between reality and the virtual world

Three researchers at the University of Auckland have found that New Zealand parrots are intelligent enough to operate touch screens, but not enough to understand the difference between virtual and real images. In a paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Amalia Bastos, Patrick Wood and Alex Taylor describe the various experiments they conducted with the endangered birds. New Zealand parrot intelligent New Zealand parrots are well known in New Zealand for their intelligence and curiosity. They are known to steal car windshield wipers or rummage through tourists' luggage and steal their passports. Unfortunately, they are at risk of ingesting lead from humans and other interactions with humans, such as wandering around in traffic. In this new experiment, the researchers wanted to know if the birds could tell the difference between what they see in real life and the images on a computer screen. To find out, they

Watch As an Unknown Space Body Crashes Into Jupiter | Video

Amateur astronomer José Luis Pereira recorded a collision with equipment installed in São Caetano do Sul (SP) It seems to us that space is a rather boring place where nothing happens. But really, you just have to be in the right place at the right time! It is amazing to realize that today both scientists and amateurs can follow distant planets in such good quality. VIDEO: Brazilian photographer films celestial body impact on Jupiter On September 13, 2021, at 22:39, amateur astronomer José Luiz Pereira from Brazil noticed a flash on a gas giant that was caused by a crashing space object. This was later confirmed by scientists in Germany, Italy and France. Astronomer Harald Paleske, who watched Io's shadow cross the surface of Jupiter that day, said: "I was surprised by the bright flash of light. It could only have been an impact." If it is indeed an impact, it would be the eighth similar event observed on Jupiter since the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 . Comet