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Sad!
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I'm an unbeliever in the 'talking' parrots. Oh they can make noise! And if you wait long enough (or just want them to badly enough) they'll make some noise that makes some kind of sense. Those researchers are serious folks and all that! ..but from what I've seen of Parrots of several kinds (there's a Congo Grey that watches me most of the day plus a dozen Amazons and a Macaw) they just want attention. They run through their repertoire sixteen hundred times forwards, backwards and all around until they get some response. In this fashion they are trained to make certain noises in certain situations (and their people are trained to make the right offers and responses). That's not the same as speaking.
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There's nothing recogniseable in even a very smart parrot's head except maybe the Looney-tunes theme music playing in a continuous loop!
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