- I'm like, today I thought,
"They're gonna be so angry today."
- No, it's gonna be like this right,
- Well, I thought they were gonna be angry today.
I'm like thinking,
"They're not gonna wanna do anything for us
because they're gonna be mad, because they haven't had
anything to eat since last night,
and normally they have food all the time."
And they were great and they weren't even
that interested in the food.
I'm like, "What, you're not starving to death?"
(upbeat music)
- [Camerawoman] We told them to surprise us
with this next one.
She wake up?
Oh!
- [Woman] She did come to you!
- She came to right to me.
- [Camerawoman] Nobody guessed the ekkie!
- [Female Trainer] So you'll just wanna see
how she reacts to the stick in general.
She doesn't seem afraid, so if you wanna hold it
near her so hopefully, out of curiosity
she just touches it.
You can raise it a little bit closer to her
for this first time.
(clicking)
Great!
And you're gonna wanna take the stick out
of view after she touches it.
Perfect!
So that's the reaction that we normally get,
is just a natural curiosity of,
"This is within my reach, I'm gonna touch it."
Because birds explore with their beaks.
But yeah, as soon as she looks ready again you
can go ahead and present the stick again.
(speaking indistinctly)
(laughing)
- [Alex] This is brutal.
I have it broke.
I have it broke into a little tiny piece.
Of course its gonna have to be
fast forwarded in so many sections.
- [Male Trainer] Its gonna be like 5 minutes of
training explained over seven hours of video.
(laughing)
- We should, eclectus course,
nine hour, 47 minute runtime.
- [Female Trainer] In slow motion.
- [Male Trainer] And then at ten times speed
- [Female Trainer] Yeah.
- [Child] It's already in slow motion.
- [Male Trainer] Right?
- [Female Trainer] That's the joke.
In the beginning we make extremely easy,
so if you feel like you need to go closer
and closer you can.
- [Male Trainer] You may end up actually--
(clicking)
And move the stick out of the way.
Slowly.
- [Female Trainer] That was a little too fast.
You should probably do things in slow motion.
Did she take the treat?
Or she really doesn't seem interested.
- [Man] She got something, I think.
- [Alex] No she didn't.
She was biting my fingernail.
- [Man] Oh.
- [Alex] Just one.
(laughing)
(clicking)
- Hi.
Oh, I didn't say you could keep it.
- [Female Trainer] Now, see if she'll take a step or two
to touch it.
Even her fluff up is in slow motion.
- You sort of have a nut hanging on your face.
- [Male Trainer] There's a joke there.
(clicking)
Nice.
- [Man] She thinks the nut came out of the end of the stick.
(laughing)
- [Female Trainer] So with the target training,
when you guys go to train it
for the other birds or continue it with these birds,
make sure that you're only
presenting the tip for her to touch,
and also, I would rather you reward a reach,
and just barely touch it, than a full grab.
- Okay.
- [Female Trainer] And the reason is that it can escalate
pretty quickly, and they might exaggerate
the behavior by grabbing onto it one of the times,
biting down harder, and we wanna
make sure that the behavior stays really gentle
and it's just a simple touch.
It's not a bite, it's not a grab.
There's no pressure.
It's really gentle.
It might be asking too far, but go ahead.
Nice.
(clicking)
(laughing)
- I know, I gotta get it out of there faster.
I'm gonna give you just the end.
Yeah.
Did you even get anything?
- [Female Trainer] Okay, so let's end on that one.
She's chewing something.
- Did she get that piece?
- [Female Trainer] Yeah.
- Did you get that piece?
- [Female Trainer] She did. - All right.
(clicking)
- [Male Trainer] So, where that little dimple is,
is where it's mounted to the box,
you're gonna push opposite of that.
So up here.
- Okay.
- [Male Trainer] So we just hold that kind of like that.
Yep. - [Alex] Like that?
- [Male Trainer] And then just be really mindful of,
kind of, think back to that flash photography right?
You wanna click the exact second,
the exact moment she touches the stick
- [Female Trainer] And I would try and get her
to at least go halfway across that--
- [Male Trainer] Yeah, so I'll have you
come back over here and bring her to like, this area.
(bird squawking)
- I know, I'll wait till you're done eating.
- [Male Trainer] Perfect.
Yeah, she's interested.
Bring her as far over as you can.
(clicking)
Nice, good job.
- [Alex] No, no.
There we go.
I wasn't trying to get you to step on that!
- [Man] Having some people over for dinner,
that's 13 different hands that
washed their hands on that towel.
- [Male Trainer] Yeah.
- [Man] I made her start putting together--
(clicking)
(laughing)
- [Alex] She's running away from me!
- [Female Trainer] What is she scared of?
She's scared of like--
- [Alex] I don't know why she's running.
Running away from my hand.
- [Man] I got a little problem with germs.
- [Alex] Because I have my hand open?
I gotta feed it to you like that?
You didn't even want it.
- [Female Trainer] What was that?
What treat was that?
That she didn't want?
- [Alex] I think it was a pine nut.
- [Female Trainer] Okay, lets try the other one.
And you can just try handing it to her.
Oh, did she touch it?
- [Man] (indistinct) later?
You seem a little bit distressed.
So you like--
(laughing)
Okay, Alex, make sure that this next one goes in,
even if you have to almost bump her beak.
(clicking)
- [Female Trainer] Are the nails new?
- [Alex] Mm-mm.
- [Female Trainer] Huh.
- [Male Trainer] Okay, so those two birds
that have been great examples of allowing failure,
and how enthusiastic is that?
That right there?
- [Female Trainer] Right instead of ignoring it,
she came right to us.
- [Male Trainer] A lot of people are afraid
to let the bird fail, and you have
(bird screeching)
two really great examples of how important that is.
- [Female Trainer] And she's taking the walnuts fine, right?
She seems to like that? - [Alex] Mm-hm.
(indistinct chatter)
- [Female Trainer] She's already anticipating it.
(clicking)
You're obsessed with your nails.
- [Alex] What is your deal?
I know, you don't want it from me that way.
- [Male Trainer] So you almost did something
that a lot of people do, but
I don't know if you caught yourself or what happened,
but a lot of people I see tend to pull the stick back,
to try to get more distance.
- [Alex] Mm-hm.
- [Male Trainer] that comes off taunting.
It'll irritate the bird.
So what we suggest is pick a spot.
If you have to, go closer, but don't pull back.
Like, you fought the tendency, or the want,
but you held it there which is good.
Definitely showing interest.
- [Female Trainer] Yeah, go ahead
and ask for another one, when you want.
Nice.
(clicking)
Sorry, couldn't see as well.
(laughing)
- [Male Trainer] You were good.
So that's five wraps.
Guess we'll probably get one more
full length of the perch--
- [Female Trainer] And then stop?
- [Male Trainer] And then we'll stop.
(clicking)
Good.
(clicking)
(bird squawks)
- [Man] He's like, "What's the catch?"
(bird squawking)
- Morty.
Morty.
(laughs)
(clicking)
- [Female Trainer] Does he not like that type of treat?
Do we wanna try a different type of treat?
- He looked at me like, "I don't want that."
- [Female Trainer] Yeah, what else can we try?
- [Alex] That was a piece of walnut.
(clicking)
- [Female Trainer] Very good.
The last thing I wanna do do is jump in a pool.
- [Scott] So with Rick screaming back there like that,
he's just doing that because we're here.
I mean, he just knows we're here so he's just like--
- [Male Trainer] Yeah.
- [Man] Like a little loud, right?
- [Male Trainer] You know what I said about the bird bubble?
- [Alex] Now he's coming over--
- [Female Trainer] He was gonna touch--