Video calls alleviate loneliness in domesticated parrots, study finds.

Domesticated parrots who were trained to make video calls to other birds exhibited increasingly social behavior, according to a study by animal-computer interaction specialists at the University of Glasgow, Northeastern University, and MIT. The parrots who made the most calls also received the most calls from other parrots, suggesting that the experiment helped the birds be more social. Parrots are known to be highly intelligent animals who live in large flocks in the wild, but in captivity, they suffer from isolation and boredom as they're often kept alone or in small groups.