Devangi: It seems that you have keen interest in birds. Shubhangi: Oh yes, didi. See, Mitra didi is always busy with her projects. Will you, please, tell me more about birds? Devangi: It is my interest and not Mitra's. I will be happy to talk about birds. Mitra, will you, please, bring a book from my bag titled 'Birds of India' by Salim Ali? Mitra: Why not? Sure.
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As bird owners, we are quickly taught that toys are super-important for parrots. We need to keep them busy to avoid boredom and stereotypical behavior, and to keep them healthy. Keeping parrots occupied is indeed an important part of bringing them in to our homes, but it’s time we realize there’s a lot more to a happy, fulfilled life than being busy, and maybe we should start looking at toys for what they really are the majority of the time—replacement.
Same behavior, different experience
There is a fundamental difference in the quality of assorted activities, even ones that would look very similar if someone else observed you doing them. Reading a book that I like because I really want to read it is fundamentally different from reading the back of a shampoo bottle because I don’t have much else to do. In both cases I am engaging in reading behavior, and to an outside observer looking at my behavior it looks pretty much the same. But I am engaging in those reading behaviors for very different reasons, or, in other words, my reading behavior has different functions.
Many factors can affect the quality of an activity, or rather how much and in what way that activity will affect my experience of engaging in it. One example is how often we engage in them. I really like reading a good book or watching a good show for an hour or two, and during that time I’d feel the activity was really fulfilling. If, however, I had nothing else to do except read the same book for eight hours a day, I would probably not be quite as pleased. However, as there are no or very few other reinforcers available to me in this scenario, I’m still likely to keep reading most of the time. The reinforcing value for reading a book for that long is low, but it is the only reinforcer available.
The quality of an activity depends on the complexity of the situation, and what other reinforcers might be available at the same time. Eating a meal is a drastically different experience depending on if we do it alone or in the company of others. By including other individuals, we have increased the complexity of the situation and possibly added many more available high-value reinforcers in the shape of active or even passive interactions with others—just quietly being in the same space can be very reinforcing to social animals like ourselves, as well as to parrots. The observable activity of eating is the same, and it also has the same function of ingesting food, but the subjective experience is still different. Of course, there is also the fact that getting to choose what food to buy and when to eat it will likely increase the reinforcing value of ingesting that food, as opposed to just passively being served what someone else thinks I should eat at a set time.
So what has this got to do with parrots?
macawsA common mantra in the companion parrot world is that a busy parrot is a good parrot. The thing is, there is so much more to enrichment that simply keeping
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