A viral video of man's pet bird helping its owner take his laziness to the "next level" by feeding him chips from a bag has left TikTok users in stitches.

The clip was posted to the social media platform by user @benjimiaparrots and has amassed 73.4 million views since it was first shared on April 6.

The footage shows the bird using its beak to take chips from a packet and place them into the mouth of a man sitting on a couch at home. A woman is shown giggling next to the man while observing the scene.

Newsweek has contacted @benjimiaparrots for comment via TikTok. This video has not been independently verified.

The bird appears to be a jenday conure parrot, according to a hashtag shared in the video. Parrots are found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including Central and South America, Africa and Australasia. However, there are roughly more than 350 different species of parrots, ranging from the small and colorful budgerigar to the large and majestic macaw.

The bird's actions in the latest clip are not only hilarious, but also showcase the bird's remarkable adaptability. Parrots are known for their intelligence and ability to learn new tasks.

A study conducted by psychologists from Harvard University, which was published in November 2018 in the scientific journal Behaviour, found that an African grey parrot was able to perform some cognitive tasks at levels beyond that of a 5-year-old.

The study entailed presenting several cups, one of which was hidden with a food reward, and the parrot was made to choose one of the cups to seek out the reward. In one trial, one of the cups contained a bigger reward (a Skittles candy—this particular parrot's favorite reward) than the standard one, which was a nut.

"Basically, we forced him to gamble," Irene Pepperberg, one of the lead psychologists from the study, told The Harvard Gazette in February 2019. "For a small percentage of trials, we would put nothing on one side and show him an empty cup on that side...so he if wanted a reward, and understood the system, he'd know that now he couldn't go to the cup next to the empty one; instead he'd have to gamble on the 50-50 side. And he hated it, but he did it on all the trials in the subset."

She added: "If he wanted that very special candy, he'd have to go to the 50-50 side. A good-enough percentage of the time, he gambled. But what was interesting was that if he lost, he wouldn't gamble on the next trial."

According to a 2022 report from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), 2.5 percent of households in the United States own birds. Around 3.5 million households in the U.S. were reported to have a pet bird from 2017-18, according to the AVMA.

TikTok Users React

The latest viral clip has floored TikTok users, with many impressed and amused by the parrot's capabilities.

User Sahrish786 wrote: "It's my dream to [live] like this, my parrot always try to attack me."

Ricky Gregory commented: "wow nice," while Christina Rasmussen added, "what a good birdie."

Lynette Swanepoel noted: "Now that is service," while SirenityHair posted: "This is next level of laziness."

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