{"id":28515,"date":"2020-04-20T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=28515"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:21:07","slug":"inside-pepperbergs-lab-parrots-adapt-during-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/inside-pepperbergs-lab-parrots-adapt-during-coronavirus-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Pepperberg&#8217;s Lab: Parrots Adapt During Coronavirus Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Life In The Time Of Coronavirus \u2014 Update<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28525 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Athena_and_Griff-e1587422291782-300x210.png\" alt=\"African greys\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Athena_and_Griff-e1587422291782-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Athena_and_Griff-e1587422291782.png 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athena and Griffin celebrate their birthdays with some homemade banana bread. Courtesy of Dr. Irene Pepperberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m sure everyone is wondering how we are functioning since my last <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/inside-peppebergs-lab-life-in-the-time-of-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog<\/a>, and the answer is \u201cvery well, though not optimally.\u201d As I mentioned last time, we are <em>extremely<\/em> fortunate that one of my research assistants, Diana, offered to take the birds. They are living in a beautiful, sunny third-floor bedroom, with views of budding trees and sky. They have settled in and are adjusting to the new schedule. My senior lab manager, one of my students, and I split shifts with Diana so that the birds have their full 11 hours day of human companionship.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t do much research, because only one person is with them at any one time. We continue with some training, so that they don\u2019t forget their labels and will continue to learn a behavior that we will need for an eventual experiment. At least when I am with them, they are rather \u201cneedy.\u201d Griffin wants to spend almost all of my shift on my hand, preening and demanding tickles. Athena likes to sit on a perch within close reach so that she can also ask for \u201ctick-tick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learned to type efficiently with one hand (in between tickles) and can keep up with emails, though nothing else. Once or twice a shift, Griffin will pause from preening to say \u201cWanna nut\u201d\u2014 his request to do some work. However, once I set up a task that I can do solo (e.g., training on bigger\/smaller), he usually decides to give random answers so that I\u2019ll quit. Athena will occasionally identify the material of a toy that she doesn\u2019t have in her cage so that I\u2019ll give it to her to tear apart \u2014 but, again, only if she\u2019s had enough tickles for the time being. As I said, it\u2019s not optimal, but I\u2019m thankful that all is well.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays Not The Same But Not Forgotten<\/h3>\n<p>One event that was definitely a casualty of the shutdown is the birds\u2019 annual hatch-day celebration. Griffin\u2019s hatch-day was on April 14<sup>th<\/sup> and Athena\u2019s was on April 17<sup>th<\/sup>; we generally pick a day in-between to commemorate their entrances into the world. There are always some treats. Several years ago my senior lab manager, Suzanne, found a recipe for a \u2018banerry-corknut\u2019 cake \u2014 an apple cake made with ground almonds and almond flour, some of the birds\u2019 favorite foods. It has become the traditional \u201cyummy bread\u201d (the label Alex used the first time he ever had cake).<\/p>\n<p>We post pictures of the parrots as they chow down, and whoever is in lab that day also gets to share the dessert. It <em>is<\/em> fun, even though normally it isn\u2019t a huge party. This year, however, would have been of particular note \u2014 Grif turned 25! \u2014 and I was planning to get a separate sheet cake for the humans, put it in one of the common areas in the Psych Department at Harvard, and invite various folks who have helped us through the years to make sure they got a slice. I was also hoping to do some extra fundraising in honor of this milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, things were quite low-key. Suzanne made a simple banana bread for them. Preparation of that banerry-corknut cake is extremely time-consuming, and time is something in very short supply for us these days. She took some pictures of them enjoying their treat that my associate lab manager, Roni, by now should have posted on Facebook (one of them below). A research assistant in the lab, Christian Liu \u2014 who has been responsible for all our artwork for the past few years, is working on a card to post, too. The main message is to find something joyous in all the insanity that surrounds us!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in a few months we\u2019ll be able to celebrate Griffin\u2019s \u201chomecoming day,\u201d when we first brought him into the lab as a 7-1\/2-week-old chick in June 1995. [<em>NB<\/em>\u2014I do NOT support adopting unweaned babies. I was terrified at the prospect of hand-feeding and weaning, but had expert help from a vet-tech friend and for a number of reasons had little choice in the matter. Athena, in contrast, was a fledged, weaned 4-month old on her arrival\u2026] If so, it will also be a very exciting celebration of a return to normal life!<\/p>\n<p><em>You can help Dr. Pepperberg continue the groundbreaking parrot research she began more than 30 years ago with Alex, the African grey parrot that won admirers from around the world with his cognitive abilities. If you shop online through sites such as Amazon.com, you can designate the Alex Foundation to receive a percentage of your final sales, or register with the Alex Foundation at iGive.com and a percentage of sales from companies associated with iGive will go to the foundation. The Alex Foundation also has a \u201cDonate\u201d button linked to PayPal. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/alexfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/alexfoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0and click on the \u201cSupport Us\u201d link for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Irene Pepperberg fills us in on how African greys Griffin and Athena, as well as she and her staff, are handling their \u201cnew normal,\u201d albeit hopefully a temporary one. 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