Study: Parrots can make decisions based on probabilities(1/2)

This photo taken in 2019 and released on March 3, 2020 shows a kea, a kind of large parrot native to New Zealand. (Photo/Agencies)

New research, published in Nature Communications, has found this New Zealand native is capable of predicting the likelihood of an event occurring-a trait only seen before in great apes such as humans. What's more, the birds also displayed signs of domain-general intelligence, which combines two sources of information to make a single judgement.

This photo taken in 2019 and released on March 3, 2020 shows a kea, a kind of large parrot native to New Zealand. (Photo/Agencies)