Pigeons master touchscreen intelligence test

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When trying to open the video, it shows (in Firefox, on Linux): "A plugin is required", and it turns out to be Quicktime.

What makes people choose to host something with this video format above options that actually work? Just curious...

Same in Chrome, it a .mov. Interesting video though, clever girl.

Yeah I can't view it! THIS IS WHY WE HAVE YOUTUBE!!!!

Install mplayerplug-in, it plays QT as well as more common formats.

At least they didn't upload it to some flash site.

EDIT: it seems that mplayerplug-in has been renamed/forked as gecko-mediaplayer.

I installed it. It was not a great success: "streaming" the video went extremely slow (it showed 50kbps), and after a while the video refused to play and the slider at the bottom became un-draggable. What a painful experience.

I just viewed the source and saved the actual video to open with vlc. Here is a direct link:

http://www2.psychology.uiowa.edu/labs/wassermanlab/video/13Y...

Beware, the file is 177 MB.

PigeonRank™[0] is more real than we may once have thought!

[0] http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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