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Type: Senegal Parrot
Genus: Poicephalus
Species: Senegalus
Subspecies: Mesotypus
Sex: Female
Weight: 120 grams
Height: 9 inches
Age: 15 years, 10 months
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Type: Cape Parrot
Genus: Poicephalus
Species:Robustus
Subspecies: Fuscicollis
Sex: Male
Weight: 330 grams
Height: 13 inches
Age: 14 years, 1 month
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Type: Blue & Gold Macaw
Genus: Ara
Species:ararauna
Sex: Female
Weight: 850 grams
Height: 26 inches
Age: 11 years and 10 months old
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Kili's Air Hockey Trick

Comments (6)

By Michael Sazhin

Thursday October 27th, 2011

I taught Kili a new trick in just a matter of a few training sessions. I haven't taught her a new trick in a while. The last trick she learned was pressing a lever to initiate the rube goldberg. However, she has not forgotten how to learn new tricks and is as good as ever picking them up. My main problem is running out of good tricks to teach her and a lack of motivation on my part rather than Kili hitting a limit to how much she can learn.

The greatest challenge was to teach Kili to push the puck rather than pick it up and fetch it. Of course naturally she is inclined to pick up whatever she says to fetch it to where it has to go since so many tricks involve fetching something. But nothing the clicker couldn't solve. This is definitely a place where it was make or break to have a clicker to train. So to all the clicker deniers out there, you are missing out on a tool that facilitates learning where difficult behaviors are required.

To teach the trick I started with targeting her to just touch the puck, click, and reward. Once she knew that she had to do something with the puck, she began trying to pick it up. Well I don't want her to pick it up ever. So if she managed to pick it up entirely I would ignore Kili. Instead, I tried to click when she was just beginning to lift it and inadvertently pushing it forward a little in the process. Thus I trained her that for this trick she didn't have to lift but just push. Then we increased the distance further and further until you have the air hockey trick you see here.

The biggest problem is if Kili begins pushing the puck but isn't exactly lined up straight. Then it always ends up being pushed into a corner and she gets stuck there. She has already learned to make small corrections (pay attention for this in the video, it's quite interesting) but still cannot make substantial turns to line up with the goal if not going in a straight line. This I cannot teach her and she simply has to learn herself through trial and error. We'll keep practicing. Ideally the purpose is to have Kili be able to start with the puck anywhere on the board and be able to maneuver it to the goal.

Now check out Kili's Air Hockey Trick video as narrated by Truman in the background:



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dohcsvt

Posted on October 28, 2011 04:35PM

Thats pretty neat, I like the background music!


ginger

Posted on October 28, 2011 05:55PM

Great job! Is there a verbal cue of any kind to get her to start the trick, or does she just know that she has to go to the hockey table because it is presented to her?


Michael

Posted on October 28, 2011 07:00PM

Mostly it is cued by the presence of the prop. But I do say "push" as a secondary cue. Actually it's kind of funny because she just stands there until I say "push" then she runs over and does everything on her own. The purpose of developing the "push" cue is to be able to apply the concept of pushing to other tricks more easily in the future.


ginger

Posted on October 28, 2011 08:20PM

I had a feeling that there was a verbal Que of some kind. :P


loops and fruits

Posted on January 17, 2012 01:28AM

that was a very awesome trick nice!!!!!


loops and fruits

Posted on January 17, 2012 01:35AM

wait, what kind of treat do you give Kili.

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