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Intelligence tests and feats with parrots

Mark Steiger
     

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Mark Steiger

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Mark Steiger

     
Mark Steiger

Numerous awards:

  • Winner "SUPERPETS - the World's most Talented Pets" on SAT1 Germany (2016)
  • Winner "OBERAFFENGEIL" on RTL2 Germany (2016)
  • Several GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
  • GERMANY’S CLEVEREST ANIMALS elected with 43,6% of all voices (German verson of "Test your Pet"):
    SAT1, DER GROSSE HAUSTIERTEST 2005 - live)
  • Winner "American Birdtricks contest" (most amazing bird trick)
  • 2 medals "Les Défis de l'Impossible" (TV-show NRJ12)
Mark Steiger
     
Best Pets of the Year 2020
     

Mark Steiger's parrot show highlights the intelligence and emotional levels of macaws and cockatoos.

The parrot show lasts around 60 minutes. Intelligence tests and feats are in alternating sequence.

The performances are instructive, amusing and let the audience participate. They are aimed at adults and children from about 8 years. Younger children barely understand the difficulties of intelligence tests. The recognition of colours, shapes and numbers seems too easy for them.

It is however possible to work out different and shorter programs for children's performances with funny tricks like roller-skating, slide, tricycle, skateboarding, basketball, etc. Some intelligence tests and feats are unique. Here the repertoire:

 

Best Parrot Show   Best Parrot Show
Auditorium Monaco (Spectacle pour le Centre Scientifique de Monaco, décembre 2023)

Spreading out the wings by order:

Greenwing macaw

(Photo TV GULLI, "Copains Comme Cochons")

 

Style " Eagle "

 

 

Style " Angel "

 

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco

(décembre 2023)

 

Best Parrot Show
 

Touristenbüro Menton

Show in front of the Menton Casino at the French Riviera (January 2018)

 

Mark Steiger Superpets

TV SAT1 Germany "SuperPets - the most talented pets in the world" (2016)


Best Parrot Show   Best Parrot Show
Scientific Center of Monaco (Auditorium Rainier III), December 2024

National Geographic Kids

- June/July 2013

Hyacinth macaw

Hyacinth macaw Luna also in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC books:

  • 125 True Stories of Amazing Pets(2014)
  • ALMANAC 2015

(Photo M6, "La France a un Incroyable Talent"= "France has got Talent" )

Parrotshowon the skilift....

Parrot Show

on top of the world.....

(Photos TV Val d'Isère)

Parrotshowand the ski-run!
 
 

GEOlino Extra

- February 2017

 

 
Meilleur exploit d'un perroquet

 

Safecracker cockatoo smudge consecutively opens three different doors with real locks!

The idea for the first gate comes from behaviorist Dr.Alice Auersperg (University of Vienna) whose Goffin cockatoos open various mechanical locks in correct order to get a treat.

Mark Steiger adapted and expanded the feat for the presentation in front of an audience.

 
1. Smudge opens various mechanical locks in the correct order to open a wooden door (sequential problem)..........

Cacatoès ouvre serrures

  Cambrioleur Cacatoès   Auersperg Cacatoès

Perroquet Auersperg

  Cacatoès perceur de coffre-forts   Perroquet Rapetou
2....then a real door lock after having selected the correct key (use of a tool, no fake)!

Kakadu Mark Steiger

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3. And finally take off a "closed" panel and turn the handle of an aluminum roller shutter (mechanical understanding).

Cacatoès Smudge de Mark Steiger

  Incroyable cacatoès Smudge   Volet roulant pour perroquet   Cacatoès Smudge
Photos TV SAT1 Germany "SuperPets - the most talented pets in the world" (2016)

 

 Daily Mail


MDR Umschau

Photo TV MDR, "UMSCHAU"

 

A puzzle with seven pieces solved in a few seconds!

Catalina Ara, Mark Steiger's parrotshow, spectacle de perroquets

Photo TV M6 France, "Hitmachine"

Mark Steiger et ses perroquets

(TV RTL Germany; "Die grosse Tiershow - Martin Rütter")

Mark Steiger, Ara Catalina

(Photo TV RAITRE, "Circo Massimo Show 2007")

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco

(December 2023)

Hoisting and lowering a flagMark Steiger

(Photo TV D8 France "Les Animaux de la Huit")


France has got Talent - Mark Steiger's parrot show

(Photo TV M6, "France has got Talent")

Bike

Parrot on bike

(Photo TV TELECINCO, "Guinness World Records")

Tricycle

Parrot tricycle

(Photo TV FRANCE3, "30 Millions d'Amis")

 

Parrot bike

Photo TV "Superpets - les animaux les plus talentueux du monde" SAT1, Germany

 

Parrot bike

Saint Martin Vésubie, French Riviera (July 2022)

 

 
Sorting objects according to color, shape, size and gold or silver
   

Cacatoès Smudge de Mark Steiger

Mark Steiger, parrot show

 

(Photo TV RAITRE, "Circo Massimo Show 2007")

 
Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

 

Slide

(Photos: Alain Mohr)

Slide

Slide

Hyazinth Ara, Mark Steiger's parrot show, spectacle de perroquets

(Photo TV FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")


"Acrobatics" and high wire act

Mark Steiger, perroquets

Casino Palm Beach, Cannes

Saint-Martin-Vésubie (December 2023)

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

 
Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

       
 

Elodie Ageron, Mark Steiger

(Photo TV D8, "Les Animaux de la Huit")

Counting and calculating

with a centennial resophonic bell.

A clear demonstration of the true "mathematical" capacities of animals (Clever Hans Effect).

Mark Steiger, perroquets

Recognizing eight geometrical shapes, shape frame matching
(all shapes have the same grey colour – no fake!)

 

 

Centre scientifique de Monaco (Auditorium Rainier III, décembre 2023)

To find out moreabout intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

 

Dunkelroter Ara, Mark Steigers Papageienshow, parrot show

(Photo TV ARTE, "Kluge Vögel" (= "Clever Birds")


(Photo TV D8 "Les Animaux de la Huit")

Scooter

   
Scientific Center of Monaco (December 2023)

Gelbbrust Ara, Mark Steiger, Saphir, puzzle, parrot

(Photo TV Paris Première, « 93 Fbg St. Honoré » with Thierry Ardisson)

Recognizing twelve colours
(all pawns have the same shape – no fake!)

The video above shows mainly games.To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

 

Gelbbrust Ara, puzzle, Mark Steiger

(Photo TV TELECINCO, "Guinness World Records")

Correction of twelve errors produced by a spectator!


(A spectator places for example the red stone on the brown field, the yellow stone on the green field and the white stone on the orange field. The parrot corrects all errors – no faking!)

The video above shows mainly games.To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)"..

Gelbbrust Ara, Mark Steiger

(Photos FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")


Scientific Center of Monaco (December 2023) Scientific Center of Monaco

 

 

 

Recognizing numbers from 1 to 6

The parrot regognizes the number of points stuck by a spectator on a black board in front of him and raises the corresponding plate (no fake! - no "Clever Hans“ effect!

To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

Mark Steiger, Ana Plasencia, MDR Leipzig

Photos TV MDR-Germany, "UMSCHAU"

French  TV - Parrots

Photo TV FRANCE3,"30 Millions d'Amis"

Otto Köhler, Mark Steiger-Test

 

 

 
Scientific Center of Monaco (December 2023)

Grünflügelara, Mark Steiger et ses perroquets, Papageienshow

(Photo TV PLANETOPIA,"Intelligente Papageien" )

Memory test with seven objects !

Parrot against spectator !

The parrot and the spectators must memorize the seven colors of seven different shapes.

The coloured shapes are withdrawn out of sight - here under the table.
The parrot poses the seven coloured pawns on the corresponding gray forms (no faking!).

The video above shows mainly games.To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

Grünflügel Ara, Mark Steiger, Hitmachine

(Photo TV M6, "Hitmachine")

     

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Memory Test

     

Mark Steiger's parrotshow

 

Mark Steiger's parrot show

Photos TV SAT1 Germany "SuperPets - the most talented pets in the world" (2016)

Twenty geometrical shapes and colours mixed by the spectator are correctly arranged by the parrot (no faking!)

The video above shows mainly games.To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

  Ara Ararauna

 
Shopping and buying "tomatoes"
 
Caddy

Caddie
The cockatoo pushes a caddy and collects all the red tomatoes. The green ones remain.

Tanzen, Mark Steiger Mark Steiger, parrot show Papageien, Mark Steiger
Dancing

Basketball, Basket ball, Mark Steiger, Haustiertest

(Photo TV SAT1 „Der grosse Haustiertest - live“)

Basketball:
Cockatoo against Macaw

Ten red balls and ten blue balls are on the playing field.
The cockatoo collects the red balls and puts them into the red basket, the macaw does the same with the blue balls.

Papageienshow, Mark Steiger

Patins à roulettes, Rollschuhfahren, roller skating, Mark Steiger

(Photo TV FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")

 

 

 

 

 

Rollschuhfahren, Papagei, Mark Steiger, roller skating

(Photo TV SIC, Portugal)

Patins à roulettes
 

Auditorium Rainier III Monaco (December 2023)

Patinage sur "glace"
Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

 

Vol libre

Free flight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jingle bells

 

 

Copains Comme Cochons GULLI(Photo TV GULLI, "Copains Comme Cochons")

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)


 
Blaustirnamazone

Mark Steiger, Ara

Mark Steiger mit Cracotte, die zu Felix Neureuther, Michelle Hunziker und Lutz van der Horst spricht

Mark Steiger with Cracotte talking to Felix Neureuther, Michelle Hunziker and Lutz van der Horst

Talking
 

Skateboard, Mark Steiger

(Photo TV FRANCE3, "30 Millions d'Amis")

Skateboard

(approximate 5km/h)

Skateboard, Mark Steiger, parrot show, Papageienshow
    Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

 
Trust
 

Ara hyacinthe, Mark Steiger

(Photo FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")

Smudge

(Photo TV TELECINCO, "Guinness World Records")

 
Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)
 

Gilbert Rozon, Smudge

(Photo TV M6, "La France a un Incroyable Talent" with Gilbert Rozon and Smudge"

 

Circo Massimo Show, Mark Steiger, pappagalli

(Photo RAITRE, "Circo Massimo Show 2007" with Fabrizzio Frizzi and Belen Rodriquez)

Drinking

 

Martin Rütter, Smudge

(Photo TV RTL Germany, "Die grosse Tiershow - Martin Rütter")

 

Three shell game (gambling):A coin is put under one of three small shells. A spectator mixes up the three shells. The parrot finds the coin immediately and throws it in a piggy bank.

Bonneteau, Mark Steiger, parrot show, spectacle de perroquets

(Photo TV TF1, « Bêtes de Scène » avec Christophe Dechavanne)

 

     
 
Scientific Center of Monaco (CSM), December 2023

Show for the Scientific Center of Monaco at the Auditorium Rainier III (December 2023)
A cockatoo takes off thirty keys of a locking ring in a few minutes – no fake!

Mark Steiger, spectacle de perroquets

(Photo RAITRE, "Circo Massimo Show 2007)

The parrot challenges a young until fifteen years old spectator:
Who is the fastest to remove the keys ?

The winner receives a peanut!

(GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS)

The video above shows mainly games.To find out more about intelligence tests with parrots and to see videos, please visit this page: "Parrot intelligence (videos)".

Parrot Show, Mark Steiger

(Photo TF1, «L’Émission des Records »)


Mark Steiger’s parrots always perform "live". The conditions are sometimes difficult: open air, surrounded by spectators , bad lighting conditions, loud music and different appearance times.

Sometimes the parrots perform before a public, which consists of only few children or adults (children and private parties), sometimes on stages in front of hundreds of spectators. Marks Steiger’s parrots solved intelligence tests live in TV in front of several million spectators.

These abilities differentiate them from other "parrot wonders", who always show their achievements only under ideal conditions in laboratories or in the same environment, to whom they are accustomed!


     
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Information:

Mark Steiger

"Le Tour du Monde"

9, rue de Cannes

06150 Cannes (FRANCE)

Mobile: 0033-(0)6 09 84 05 07

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