Parrot Show

Intelligence tests and feats with parrots

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'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:

Spreading out the wings by order:

(Photo TV GULLI, "Copains Comme Cochons")

Style " Eagle "

Style " Angel "

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco

(décembre 2023)

National Geographic Kids

- June/July 2013

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" )

on top of the world.....

(Photos TV Val d'Isère)

GEOlino Extra

- February 2017

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.

 Daily Mail

A puzzle with seven pieces solved in a few seconds!

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

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

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco

(December 2023)

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

Bike

(Photo TV TELECINCO, "Guinness World Records")

Tricycle

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

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

Saint Martin Vésubie, French Riviera (July 2022)

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

(Photos: Alain Mohr)

Slide

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

Saint-Martin-Vésubie (December 2023)

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco (December 2023)

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

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)".

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

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

Scooter

(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)".

(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)"..

(Photos FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")

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)".

Photos TV MDR-Germany, "UMSCHAU"

Photo TV FRANCE3,"30 Millions d'Amis"

(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)".

(Photo TV M6, "Hitmachine")

Memory Test

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)".

(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.

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

(Photo TV SIC, Portugal)

Free flight

Jingle bells

(Photo TV GULLI, "Copains Comme Cochons")

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

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

Skateboard

(approximate 5km/h)

(Photo FRANCE2, "La Nuit des Records")

(Photo TV TELECINCO, "Guinness World Records")

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

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

(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.

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

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)".

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!

Information:

Mark Steiger

"Le Tour du Monde"

9, rue de Cannes

06150 Cannes (FRANCE)

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

MarkSteiger@ParrotShow.biz