This is clearly false advertising. I don't see any pinging going on. This seems more like Pigeons playing pong.
BF Skinner trains two pigeons to perform a chain of behaviors for the classroom demonstration. As a result, pigeons engage in a competition, the so-called "pigeon Ping Pong". Narrated by B.F. Skinner.
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Nice find. I heard about this experiment in class, and spent quite a bit trying to find a video (unsuccessfully).
Posted by: Johan | April 7, 2008 5:04 PM
Hey, where are their paddles? ;-)
There are a few more videos here, too:
http://www.bfskinner.org/video_audio.html
Posted by: Sandra | April 8, 2008 11:46 PM
Wasn't Pong invented after this video?
Posted by: bernarda | April 12, 2008 8:13 AM