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Yes, Timber perches easily on them, even with his handicap!

I too have been very interested in a Grey's level of intelligence. I like what Sarasota said in one post, "I can't help but wonder if our own birds are frustrated by our limited ability to read their signals and body language, and thwarted by their inability to use full human language with us to communicate!" I often get that "feel" myself with Cosmo. I'd like to reiterate something that I included in one of my posts a while back. A couple of years ago, I bought Cosmo a foraging toy called "Tiki Takeout" It was a small plastic hut that came with wooden dowels of different diameters. The front of the hut was open for you to put a treat inside. On the bottom of the hut was a "secret" door that was secured by a dime screw. After placing the treat in the hut, you'd slide 4 wooden dowels through holes that were accessible by removing the "secret" door and were held in place by the door when it was reattached and screwed down. The idea was, your parrot would see the treat through the dowels, and begin gnawing through them to eventually get to the treat. I set this up in the kitchen, out of Cosmo's sight (and not for any particular reason except that's where my change was for me to get a dime to open the bottom door). I hung the toy in his cage, Cosmo went cautiously and looked it over. He then began to chew on one of the dowels then suddenly stopped. He looked at the hut up and down, front and back and side to side, then he grabbed it and flipped it over. He looked at the bottom of the hut for a few seconds, then took his beak and turned the dime screw, unlocking the "secret" door. He let go of the hut, now right-side up and the dowels and treat fell to the bottom of his cage... he climbed down to retrieve the treat and that was the end the "gnawing through dowels" concept! It took him no more than 2 minutes to figure out that the treat (which was a shelled walnut) had to be put in there somehow. Hard to believe but true! I try not to equate a Greys intelligence to a humans, however I think they have an intelligence that we'll probably never fully understand. ~Rick