Watch this brilliant bird: Apollo, an African grey parrot, amazes internet with his smarts, vocabulary - Fox News

Meet a feathered chap who is lighting up the net with his verbal abilities and intelligence: Apollo, an African grey parrot.

Apollo lives with his humans, Dalton Mason and Victoria Lacey, successful St. Petersburg, Florida. 

He is two-and-a-half years old, and has feathered household members arsenic good arsenic quality ones; Mason and Lacey besides ain two white-bellied caiques named Soleil and Ophelia, Lacey told Fox News Digital by email.

The net wants much of Apollo, it seems: The Instagram relationship apolloandfrens showcases the talents of Apollo and has immoderate 142,000 followers, portion a TikTok relationship for Apollo’s unthinkable feats of intelligence, ApolloandFrens, has racked up astir 940,000 followers arsenic of close now.

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In galore of their videos shared connected societal media, Mason tin beryllium seen asking Apollo to place objects oregon execute different tasks and is enthusiastic erstwhile Apollo gets them right. 

And erstwhile helium doesn't — the vertebrate ever gets a 2nd chance.

Apollo, an African grey parrot, is fashionable connected societal media, with aggregate accounts pursuing his regular beingness and increasing database of skills and abilities. (@apolloandfrens )

Apollo tin separate betwixt metallic and solid — intelligibly pronouncing each connection — and helium knows colors, too, among different skills.

"We've had him since helium was 8 months old," Lacey told Fox News Digital by email.

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Working with Apollo and investigating his boundaries is not a light-hearted hobby for Mason and Lacey. It's a superior and adjacent scholarly passion.

"We usage the ‘model/rival’ programme of training," Lacey said. 

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"It was primitively published by German ethologist Dietmar Todt, but was popularized by Dr. Irene Pepperberg [a idiosyncratic noted for her enactment successful tract of carnal cognition] done her enactment with Alex, her African grey."

Lacey besides said, "Occasionally we'll usage operant conditioning, which is much communal for grooming pets."

"As a much passive means of training," noted Lacey, "we speech with him arsenic if helium were a subordinate of the household."  (@apolloandfrens )

Operant conditioning — offering a bully result successful effect to a desired behaviour — is usually attributed to scientist B.F. Skinner, according to SimplyPsychology.org.

Apollo tin often beryllium seen on societal media receiving the reward of a pistachio erstwhile helium correctly performs a task. 

"Parrots are overmuch amended astatine replicating quality code owed to their anatomy."

"As a much passive means of training," noted Lacey, "we speech with him arsenic if helium were a subordinate of the household, functioning arsenic if he were our young son."

Explaining that the abilities of this taxon are "practically unknown," Lacey said they dainty Apollo "much similar a child" to spot "how helium compares cognitively." 

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She added, "These parrots are adjacent successful size to crows, person a akin fare and a analyzable societal operation — truthful 1 tin presume they are astir arsenic intelligent."

"Parrots, however, are overmuch amended astatine replicating quality code owed to their anatomy," she noted.

Dalton Mason (left) trains Apollo — portion Apollo checks retired the camera connected the right. "Apollo is ‘bonded’ with us, though helium prefers Dalton," said Lacey. (@apolloandfrens )

Parrots speech by "modifying the aerial that flows implicit the syrinx to marque sounds," explains Exotic Direct, an exotic favored security institution that besides shares facts astir exotics connected its website. 

"The syrinx is located wherever the trachea splits into the lungs," the tract notes.

The tract besides notes, "Parrots, peculiarly African greys and members of the Amazon family, are peculiarly bully astatine imitating quality words and sounds."

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"Apollo is ‘bonded’ with us, though helium prefers Dalton," said Lacey. 

"He is besides precise adjacent with our different parrots and galore of our friends and family."

Parrots are undomesticated, dissimilar dogs and cats, Lacey besides said, "though they people unrecorded successful ample flocks with a analyzable societal hierarchy and connection system."

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"In practice, they bash not ‘fit in’ with quality societal structures oregon enslaved arsenic good arsenic dogs," Lacey said. 

"They are acold much societal than cats, which arsenic solo animals deficiency the societal programming astatine the familial level."