Measuring Discrimination Abilities of Monk Parakeets Between Discreet and Continuous Quantities Through a Digital Life Enrichment Application
J\'er\'emy Barbay, Fabi\'an Ja\~na, Crist\'obal Sepulveda, \'Alvarez

TL;DR
This study demonstrates that digital life enrichment applications can effectively measure discrimination abilities in Monk Parakeets, reducing bias and cost compared to traditional experimental methods used with African Grey parrots.
Contribution
The paper introduces a digital method to replicate and extend discrimination experiments in parrots, improving bias control and scalability over previous protocols.
Findings
Similar discrimination results obtained for Monk Parakeets as in previous studies with African Grey parrots
Digital approach reduces experimental bias and cost
Method enables large-scale replication of avian discrimination experiments
Abstract
Ain et al. measured three African Grey (Psittacus erithacus) parrot's discrimination abilities between discreet and continuous quantities. Some features of their experimental protocol make it difficult to apply to other subjects and/or species without introducing a risk for some bias, as subjects could read cues from the experimenter (even though the study's subjects probably did not). Can digital life enrichment techniques permit us to replicate their results with other species with less risk for experimental bias, with a better precision, and at lower cost? Inspired by previous informal digital life enrichment experiments with parrots, we designed and tested a web application to digitally replicate and extend Ain et al.'s experimental setup. We were able to obtain similar results to theirs for two individuals from a distinct species, Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta Monachus), with…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Insect and Pesticide Research · Plant and animal studies
