- So, I wanted to give you guys the latest update on Morgan.
Morgan gained a lot of weight (laughs),
and she's incredibly heavy right now.
So, she, I brought her out for the first time
to do a session, but Patty had already fed her,
and, um, I decided to just try anyway,
and just see where she was at enthusiasm-wise,
and just kind of overall mood and get a
get a reading on her basically.
And I could tell, just based from the touch training
that she wasn't interested in training
and that she wasn't going to be responsive.
Um, so I brought my macaw Jinx out
um, because I figured worst-case
if she didn't want to participate he probably would,
because I've been training him more recently
and I figured he would be excited by it,
so it wouldn't be a loose situation
it would just be more of a Morgan-fail day (laughs).
And when she took a couple flights
I could tell just how heavy she was.
So she's not in the right set, like,
not set up for success to be training right now.
So I need to get her back on track with her two meals a day,
get her back on the BirdTricks diet and that sort of stuff.
So I will be working towards that,
but anyways, I wanted you guys to have a heads-up on that
so you could understand the major change
that you're going to see in Morgan the lazy-bird here.
Um, but at least you get to see Jinx excel,
and the cool thing is, in the end,
Jinx totally ends up training Morgan for me.
I did not do anything, he is the parrot trainer (laughs)
parrot in this video, which I'm really excited about.
So, um, yeah, enjoy the footage.
(Whispers) Okay.
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Good boy.
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Good boy.
Morgan!
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Morgan!
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Good boy.
Morgan!
Good boy, Jinx-y.
Good boy, Bubs.
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Good boy, Bubby.
Morgan!
(Click)
Oh, you're heavy.
Morgan!
(Click)
Jinx-y!
Come on!
(Click)
Morgan!
(Click)
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Morgan!
Come on!
(Click)
Good.
Jinx-y.
Good job!
Jinx-y!
Good job, it's all right.
Op, you missed one, get you one.
Good job, guys.
(Click)
Good job!
Jinx-y!
(Click)
Good!
Morgan!
Come on!
Jinx-y!
Good boy.
Morgan!
Good job, little jackpot for you.
Down immediately, don't worry about him.
Ooh, hey.
Guys.
Guys and gals.
Remember it?
Nope.
Come on!
You and I'll work on your new thing, how about that?
So, I've been working on with Jinx, only one time,
his head-nod, so, or his head-shake, I should say.
Okay.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
Bubba!
- Oh, but here comes Morgan.
(Click)
Good job.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
(Click)
- Remember?
- [Jinx] Bubba!
(Click)
- Good job (laughs), it's scaring them,
because they aren't expecting--
(Click)
Oh my gosh, she just learned.
(Click)
So trainer geek-out moment, um, and I'm not ashamed,
but literally, Morgan was very uninterested in training.
I don't know how many of you guys picked up on it,
but like, her slow-mo character
was just like, not interested.
She was willing to do her favorite flight a couple times,
but it was like, nah.
And then once I started training just Jinx and ignoring her
she started becoming really interested
in how he was earning treats without flight.
And so as she heard the click
she became really interested and even startled
but that was just more exciting and more interesting to her.
So, throughout my session with him
she would come close and stare at him and pin her eye
and would just study him and what he was doing,
and then she would kind of walk away,
and then she would walk back and just do it again,
and this time she picked up on exactly which behavior
he was doing that was earning a treat,
which is amazing, and it's observational learning.
It's where one animal literally watches
or observes to learn.
Um, I had this with Bondi and Bandit with the "Rock Out".
Bondi I taught the "Rock Out" to,
Bandit just watched and mimicked.
So this is a very, very powerful training tool
as you can see, um, I'm going to show you
and continue with the footage,
but I wanted to make sure you guys saw
how subtle it was that she tried it and got a reward.
(Click)
Holy crap, I can't wait to look at this video.
She just used
observational learning. (Click)
Trying to figure out what Jinx is doing to earn the treat.
(Click)
He just figured it out.
Oh my gosh, I have to get a different angle for you guys.
Okay, I'm going to video tape straight on.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Blows)
(Click)
- [Jinx] Bub!
- [Jamie] Gonna see if he'll do it without me blowing.
(Click)
- [Jinx] Bubba!
(Click)
- [Jamie] Ooh, she got mad.
(Click)
See if you want to earn one?
Oh.
Yep, Jinx-y knows it.
(Click)
Good job Bubs.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Inhales)
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Blows)
(Click)
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Inhales) - Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Blows)
(Click)
I'm not even hitting him with air now.
Ooh.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] (Blows)
(Click)
Okay, last one.
- [Jinx] Bub.
- [Jamie] (Blows)
(Click)
All right Bubs, good job.
Oh my gosh, you guys have to see this.
Okay.
Should not have put all the treats in here.
Did you guys see that?
Jinx just did it without me having to blow at all.
Okay, let's wait.
- [Jinx] Bub!
- This is the begging phase.
This is what we look for to add a cue.
He's just doing it without me having to do anything,
I'm just getting the head-shake.
Good girl!
You see her just watching him?
Trying to figure out why - Bubba!
he's getting treats.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] She has it partially figured out.
That's just the clicker.
(Click)
Good job, you guys both got it that time.
This is cool, I didn't do anything.
All I did was let Jinx teach her.
She really taught her, she watched him
and figured out what he was doing to earn the treat.
Let me see if I can get more video of this, all right.
Yeah, you too, Morgan.
I need a different angle.
I want you guys to be able to see both of them.
Good girl.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- [Jamie] Come on, girlie.
- [Jinx] Bubba!
- She was more comfortable doing it on me.
You can do it on me.
- [Jinx] Bub!
Bubba!
- [Jamie] Waiting for you both.
Good.
Did you guys see that? That was awesome.
(Laughs)
Good. I gave her a big one.
All right we're going to end it there.
Up! What the heck? Can I put you away?
No? (laughs)
He's like, "No you can't put me away!"
Come on, Bubs!
Let's go.