{"id":17160,"date":"2017-07-31T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:26:41","slug":"inside-pepperbergs-lab-catering-parrots-tastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/inside-pepperbergs-lab-catering-parrots-tastes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Pepperberg&#8217;s Lab: Catering To Parrots&#8217; Tastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17161\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17161 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberAthena-grape-juice-4-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberAthena-grape-juice-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberAthena-grape-juice-4-72x90.jpg 72w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberAthena-grape-juice-4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Dr. Irene Pepperberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong><\/strong>What We Do for Science\u2026and for Our Birds!<\/h3>\n<p>The story starts out with a paper on Piagetian liquid conservation that was just accepted for publication (more on that study in an upcoming blog). The success of the experiment relied on the ability of our parrots to choose and drink from the one container of two that held a bit more juice than the other. For example, the equivalent of a choice between about less than a fourth versus a half of a teaspoon of liquid. Given that our birds value juice as a major treat, to which we limit access (we joke that it is like \u201ccrack cocaine\u201d for them \u2014 a concentrated sugar source they can access without any real work), it wasn\u2019t all that surprising that they eagerly looked forward to these sessions.<\/p>\n<p>We would even switch around flavors of the organic juices that we used, so that they wouldn\u2019t get bored by any one type. Griffin, Athena, Pepper, and Franco (two other <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/african-grey-parrot\/\">African Greys<\/a> who sometimes participate in our studies) all succeeded, comparing very favorably with young children. However, one of my colleagues, despite liking the paper as it was, suggested that we do a second, related experiment, comparing the birds with a number of different great ape species who have also been tested. It seemed like a terrific idea, and we recently began the second study.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17163\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17163 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberGrape-juice-3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberGrape-juice-3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberGrape-juice-3-72x90.jpg 72w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperberGrape-juice-3.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Dr. Irene Pepperberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>A Parrot With an Unexpected Problem<\/h3>\n<p>Griffin was happy to participate; Athena, however, was another matter. In the intervening months since we had finished the first experiment, we\u2019ve had to give her a supplement to regulate her hormones. The supplement tastes pretty awful, so we decided to give her some yummy juice after each dose both as a reward for taking her meds and to give her a more pleasant aftertaste. Unfortunately, our ploy backfired: What happened was that she started to associate juice with the nasty-flavored supplement, and began to refuse to drink <em>any<\/em> of the organic commercial juices we provided. What could we do?<\/p>\n<h3>A Student Finds An Unconventional Solution<\/h3>\n<p>Fortunately, one of my students, Francesca, noticed that Athena still likes to eat the fresh organic grapes we obtain from a local farmers\u2019 market, and suggested that we try squeezing them for their juice. We teased Francesca about how we\u2019d all get into trouble for starting a winery, but decided her idea was worth a try. Lo and behold, Athena slurped up that first batch! So, Francesca now spends a certain amount of time every other day, peeling and squeezing organic grapes, and filtering the resultant juice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17162\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperbergGrape-juice-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperbergGrape-juice-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperbergGrape-juice-1-72x90.jpg 72w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepperbergGrape-juice-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Dr. Irene Pepperberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m sure that wasn\u2019t what she had in mind when she applied for a fellowship to work in the lab this summer\u2026and thankfully it really doesn\u2019t take all that much of her time, allowing her actually to perform this and other experiments with the birds. But the experience does indeed demonstrate that, on occasion, what we have to do to get data from our birds can involve somewhat unconventional activities \u2014 and that work of this type doesn\u2019t ever get the appropriate credit in those published papers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pepperberg reveals some unconventional, and unsung, activities needed to get data from the African grey parrots in her lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":17161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday","category-new","bird-type-african-grey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside Pepperberg&#039;s Lab: Catering To Parrots&#039; 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