I forgot to highlight that I think parrot’s general social and physical compatibility with humans — and humans’ general sympathy and respect for parrots—is probably greater than any alternative except dogs. They also can fly. People quickly report and prosecute dog fighting. I bet regular or kinda smart or very smart parrots would all do fine. 100% speculation of course.
Parrots are social animal that frequently are held without any other parrots to socialize with.
That suggests that humans don’t care that much about treating them according to their values.
I forgot to highlight that I think parrot’s general social and physical compatibility with humans — and humans’ general sympathy and respect for parrots—is probably greater than any alternative except dogs. They also can fly. People quickly report and prosecute dog fighting. I bet regular or kinda smart or very smart parrots would all do fine. 100% speculation of course.
Parrots are social animal that frequently are held without any other parrots to socialize with. That suggests that humans don’t care that much about treating them according to their values.
Good point. In fact I can imagine people treating smarter parrots even worse sometimes because they would be extra annoying sometimes