Video calls can spark joy. That’s true for parrots, too, study finds.

Eleanor wanted to call a friend, so she scanned her contacts and touched a picture of Rosie, whom she had met last summer.

Instead of speaking on the call, the pair communicated in different ways: singing, dancing and preening.

Eleanor and Rosie were participants in a new study to judge how pet parrots would respond to video calling other parrots. Researchers said that the 18 monitored birds loved seeing their feathered friends over a screen and that it provided them with a sense of community pets typically lack.