{"id":1018405,"date":"2022-03-11T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/watch-african-grey-parrot-learns-how-to-paint-at-maryland-zoo\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:25:23","slug":"watch-african-grey-parrot-learns-how-to-paint-at-maryland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/watch-african-grey-parrot-learns-how-to-paint-at-maryland-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: African grey parrot learns how to paint at Maryland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/African-grey-parrot-learns-how-to-paint-at-Maryland-Zoo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tp_St_emb youtube-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Will she be the next bird-casso? Our Embassy care team is training African grey parrot Echo to paint. Painting is a great enrichment activity that keeps Echo mentally stimulated and allows her to use her natural adaptations. She sure is creating quite a masterpiece! pic.twitter.com\/0OFjYCWxpM\u2014 Maryland Zoo (@marylandzoo) March 10, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An African grey parrot named Echo is out to prove that birds can be painters too at the Maryland Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy care team at the zoo is training Echo how to paint and posted a video of the parrot creating abstract art on Twitter.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Will she bet the next bird-casso?&#8221; the Maryland Zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Echo paints by grabbing a sponge dipped in paint with her beak. Echo then takes the sponge to a sheet of paper and moves it in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>Echo also receives treats for taking part in the activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Painting is a great enrichment activity that keeps Echo mentally stimulated and allows her to use her natural adaptations. She sure is creating quite a masterpiece!&#8221; the zoo continued.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will she be the next bird-casso? Our Embassy care team is training African grey parrot Echo to paint. Painting is a great enrichment activity that keeps Echo mentally stimulated and allows her to use her natural adaptations. She sure is creating quite a masterpiece! pic.twitter.com\/0OFjYCWxpM\u2014 Maryland Zoo (@marylandzoo) March 10, 2022 March 11 (UPI) &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}