{"id":47381,"date":"2026-06-24T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=47381"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:07:30","slug":"inside-dr-pepperbergs-lab-video-calling-with-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/inside-dr-pepperbergs-lab-video-calling-with-griffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Dr. Pepperberg&#8217;s Lab: Video Calling with Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47384\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47384 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/login.lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/griffin-01-co-pepperberg-2606-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"grey parrot Griffin connects with Dr. Pepperberg on Facetime call\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/griffin-01-co-pepperberg-2606-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/griffin-01-co-pepperberg-2606-679x900.jpg 679w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/griffin-01-co-pepperberg-2606-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/griffin-01-co-pepperberg-2606.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While video calls can&#8217;t replace in-person time, Dr. Irene Pepperberg has found they help maintain her bond with Griffin and reduce the &#8220;cold wing&#8221; treatment when she returns home. Image courtesy of Dr. Irene Pepperberg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few years ago, I wrote about my intention to <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/inside-dr-pepperbergs-lab-zoom-calls-with-african-greys-griffin-athena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connect to my parrots via video calls<\/a> while I travelled. I realize now that I never followed up on what has turned out to be a very effective way of keeping in touch when I\u2019m not in town.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I don\u2019t travel <em>quite<\/em> as much now. When I turned 75, I decided that the three-trips-per-month schedule of my life <em>had<\/em> to change, and now I\u2019m generally down to one trip a month (although there are exceptions, given that I don\u2019t have any control in scheduling conferences). Even so, I\u2019m gone from the lab more than I would like, and although there is a small army of research associates catering to his every need in my absence, making sure that Griffin knows he isn\u2019t being abandoned by <em>me <\/em>is high on my list of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The ease of calling, of course, depends on where I am\u2026When I\u2019m in the US, arranging for a call generally isn\u2019t much of an issue. I can always take a short break, wherever I am, with at most a three-hour time differential\u2026so making sure that I call before Griffin\u2019s 8pm bedtime is almost never a problem. When I am in places like Dubai, with an 8 hour time difference, or Japan, with a 13-hour time difference (and, of course, international dateline problems), things get a LOT trickier\u2014there are only very short time windows in which to make a call. I\u2019ve found myself calling using an internet &#8220;hot spot&#8221; from a colleague\u2019s car on occasion! (Of course, they\u2019ve really enjoyed seeing Griffin, too!)<\/p>\n<h3>Phoning Home<\/h3>\n<p>As I mentioned in the earlier blog, we are not exactly sure what Griffin observes over the video. Parrots see in the ultraviolet, and cell phone cameras are optimized for human vision. People\u2019s faces probably have little or no UV components\u2014unlike parrot feathers\u2014so probably he does see a reasonable replica of me on the screen. We aren\u2019t even sure how well he can hear and recognize my voice. Maybe it is just that I\u2019m the only one who engages video calls with him, so he has associated the sounds from the phone with me. Nevertheless, he always bends down to touch the screen to give me \u2018kisses\u2019. In any case, he seems to find the experience as something positive and absolutely not aversive, and I definitely like to see how he is looking in my absence. He\u2019s also learned not to request \u2018tickle\u2019 from the phone, thus he understands something about my not really being present.<\/p>\n<p>So, is a phone call a good substitute for my presence? Not really\u2026When I am in town, Griffin will spend at least an hour a day on my hand, getting tickles and preening himself; we spend additional time together in sessions; and while he eats his afternoon birdy snacks, he likes to have me nearby, eating my human snacks (things like carrots, which he absolutely hates\u2014so no sharing!). None of those things can be replaced by 10 minutes on a phone. But is a video call better than nothing?\u2026.For sure.<\/p>\n<p>When I return from a trip after calling, I am much less likely to receive the \u2018cold wing\u2019 treatment, and if he does ignore me at first, he engages in such behavior for a much shorter time period. Thus, while traveling, I am very likely to schedule my day around a short window in which I can \u2018phone home\u2019. Even when such scheduling is truly difficult, I remind myself how much I both appreciated and disliked ZOOM calls with friends and family during COVID: Nothing could replace a real hug, but sharing news and seeing the faces of loved ones certainly made life a bit less miserable!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While video calls can&#8217;t replace in-person time, Dr. Irene Pepperberg has found they help maintain her bond with Griffin and reduce the &#8220;cold wing&#8221; treatment when she returns home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":47384,"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":[81,211,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behavior","category-editor-choice","category-everyday"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside Dr. Pepperberg&#039;s Lab: Video Calling with Griffin &#8211; 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