Magpie trades 3 bottle-caps for food

michael59

Celestial
His name is Hans Forsberg and he's teaching Magpies to recycle.

This is current state of my experiment, trying to teach the magpies in our garden to pick up litter, and get paid with food. Right now, the birds pick-up bottle caps and trade them for peanuts in my machine. I plan to describe the evolution of his work together with plans and details of the hardware and software on this channel. There is also some descriptions and files regarding hardware for the experimental rig available on my thingiverse page https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:460...

 

nivek

As Above So Below
I wonder the psychological impact on the birds when/if they can't find any bottle caps nor other trash that they've been trained to find...It may cause depression because of them wanting the food they cannot access because of a lack of trash in the vicinity...

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