Rare Parrot Behavior!?!

My 20 month old Congo African Grey (Jamie) has a few toys that fell to
the bottom of her cage (because she untied them). A plastic spool and
a few wooden toys of various shapes. This morning I discovered that
she had hollowed out the plastic spool, and was attempting to insert a
wooden cylinder INTO the hollowed out plastic spool! Essentially, she
was assembling two toys to make a new toy of a different shape. She
worked on this for several hours this morning until she got it just
the way she wanted.

I have read that parrots generally destroy / disassemble toys and
don't usually try to put them back together. Has anyone else seen
assembly behavior like this?

Thanks,
Andy

"Andy Turner" <aturner.RemoveThis@bandag.com> wrote in message
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> My 20 month old Congo African Grey (Jamie) has a few toys that fell to
> the bottom of her cage (because she untied them). A plastic spool and
> a few wooden toys of various shapes. This morning I discovered that
> she had hollowed out the plastic spool, and was attempting to insert a
> wooden cylinder INTO the hollowed out plastic spool! Essentially, she
> was assembling two toys to make a new toy of a different shape. She
> worked on this for several hours this morning until she got it just
> the way she wanted.
>
> I have read that parrots generally destroy / disassemble toys and
> don't usually try to put them back together. Has anyone else seen
> assembly behavior like this?
>
You underrate your bird lol. Several of mine will try to put things into
other things. You might want to look out for a kiddies toy where they have
to put shaped bits into a box through the correct shaped holes. Sounds like
you have an intelligent birdy there.