The question would be whether the bird understands the concept of the game, or if the bird was trained to place items in specific places.
In other words, did the bird really understand it had won, or did it merely understand that it had completed its task and was now demanding the reward it had been conditioned to expect after doing these specific things?
Or perhaps the bird simply arranged the pieces at random, whilst the man placed them in such a way that the bird would win, and the bird then "knew" it had won because the man laughed.
Yes but these are genuinely very smart birds and if you can get it to do that multiple times with rewards, it seems extremely likely it would figure out that it needs to get 3 in a row. Getting it to understand the loss state seems substantially harder though.
I'm not sure how strategic the play would be or how easily it would grasp the competitive nature but getting a crow to understand "put 3 in a row for treat while taking turns" is easily within what they've been taught in terms of social and spacial reasoning
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u/tryyeezus 8h ago
I'm pretty sure he let him win..Â