Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

[...]

I've noticed that animals, cats and dogs and birds, are sensitive to
eyeball effect too. It's probably a component of their threat
evaluation.

I tried an experiment with a friend's parrot:  The cage had a few thick
bars, so I moved until one of the bars obstructed the direct line of
vision from the parrot's eye to mine.  The parrot moved so that it could
see my eyes again.

I moved again...
The parrot moved again...
I moved again...
The parrot moved again...

I kept this up for some while, with the parrot becoming more and more
agitated.  I don't know whether it thought this was a fine game or
whether it saw me as a dangerous threat.

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