[oneandoneis2]

Behold the creative powers of boredom!

The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)

[gcheong]

How does bordeom theory explain the tool use of other bird species and other primates in the wild?

[mhb]

Or maybe people spend more time watching captive parrots.

[nivla]

or in other words necessity is the mother of invention.

[brini]

Or, more specifically in this case, captivity is the mother of invention. This reminds me of a video I saw recently about the inventions of prison inmates.

[gmaslov]

There we are, now uplift isn't as hard as it appeared: just introduce agriculture to a population and wait 10,000 years ;)