African grey parrots play with their new pPod (2/3)

Karma, my African Grey parrot, plays with the new pPod that I just made for her

and Tiger. Within ten minutes, Karma was able to trigger the switches to change

the songs, although she was doing this by accident. Tiger, the timid one,

remained a bit away from the new and therefore dangerous pPod. Notice how Karma

seems more interested in destroying the speakers (protected by a metal grid) than

she is in playing with the switches! For more information on the pPod, go to

www.jonbondy.com/pPod.htm.

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[yajonbondy]

While my parrots like music quite a lot, they have not found the pPod to be compelling enough to use regularly. I'm not sure why that is. Perhaps I need to train them to use it. I had hoped that they would stumble on the music while chewing and pulling on the switches, but no joy so far. The volume is always the same, but you can control that by changing the level of the recorded music that you provide.

[ZachariahLogan]

k.. i am only saying this b'cause i work in a byrd shoppe. but.. you need to bring your bird in to trim it's nails..

[moonrayz4]

Looks Great!

I'd be very interested to buy one of these for my smart Timneh AG. I understand that you are still in the development stage of the design but it looks great so far. How does one control the volume ?