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Is it possible to teach a parrot (goffin) to do loops and barrel rolls in flight? Or things like flying upside down or backwards? Can't find much online. Thanks. 146.200.128.134 ( talk) 04:22, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Generally teaching tricks to an animal that doesn't have a trained animal to imitate involves immediately rewarding any random behaviours that are close to what you want (either by showing praise/affection if the animal is used to that or by food treats). Then you carry on rewarding that behaviour every time it happens, combined with giving a signal (hand gesture, whistle, voice command, etc). This can take a long time, but eventually you will be able to give the signal first and the animal will respond with the "trick". With training chimpanzees and gorillas, you would usually give a signal first to say "now we are starting work", then after the training session is ended, another signal to say "now we can play". This takes a lot of patience, and you have to be very careful not to wear the animal out by endlessly repeating signals, initially you should only use them when you think the animal is going to respond correctly. There's no reason why you can't train a parrot to do flight tricks if it's something they can normally do. Good luck. 49.197.49.86 ( talk) 23:32, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
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Is it possible to teach a parrot (goffin) to do loops and barrel rolls in flight? Or things like flying upside down or backwards? Can't find much online. Thanks. 146.200.128.134 ( talk) 04:22, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Generally teaching tricks to an animal that doesn't have a trained animal to imitate involves immediately rewarding any random behaviours that are close to what you want (either by showing praise/affection if the animal is used to that or by food treats). Then you carry on rewarding that behaviour every time it happens, combined with giving a signal (hand gesture, whistle, voice command, etc). This can take a long time, but eventually you will be able to give the signal first and the animal will respond with the "trick". With training chimpanzees and gorillas, you would usually give a signal first to say "now we are starting work", then after the training session is ended, another signal to say "now we can play". This takes a lot of patience, and you have to be very careful not to wear the animal out by endlessly repeating signals, initially you should only use them when you think the animal is going to respond correctly. There's no reason why you can't train a parrot to do flight tricks if it's something they can normally do. Good luck. 49.197.49.86 ( talk) 23:32, 19 September 2020 (UTC)