Here we have a Spunky the cockatiel and Steve the Lorikeet playing a little whistling game.
Story behind this video:
Someone asked in the comments how the owner taught these two birds this little "trick". Here is what the owner said in response.
PodeCoet wrote:
I guess we didn't really teach them per se. We used to make a wolf-whistle sound every time our cockatoo would stretch her wings out and call her a sexy bird, Steve the Lorikeet eventually mimicked the whistle, Spunky the cockatiel doesn't like to be out-done with whistling sounds, he mimicked it too. Spunky bobs his head down a little while whistling (as cockatiels do), Steve noticed this and bobbed down further being a Lorikeet (they exhaggerate EVERYTHING)... Eventually we all got into a weird head-bobbing feedback loop while wolf whistling. After a few days of that, each time someone bent down to pick something up, or something fell, there'd be half a wolf whistle... and so on
I love how the lorikeet gets bored after a few minutes, so he slowly walks out of the camera, while still whistling, because he still wants to participate. Then few seconds later, he walks back to the cockatiel
Thanks for sharing it- I just love watching cockatiel vids...I love the lorikeet in this one. I never knew that they were funny too!
