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A lot of people think that parrots just mimic sounds. But it's been proven here lately that, no, they understand and they know what they're saying. Some parrots are slower to learn to talk and that could be from many things, from their intelligence, from their environment or whatever.
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www.ehow.com/video_4951499_parrots-talk.html
www.ehow.com/video_4951499_parrots-talk.html
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6. Birds vs. People ... Q. Why do some birds mimic the sounds of other species? ... Such birds are unafraid of people and learn to associate humans with food, leading to many kinds of bad situations after release. All in all, when even professional rehabbers raise baby songbirds, the chances of long-term survival and a natural...
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www.allaboutbirds.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=1098
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Parrots have a wide range of articulations. Wild parrots do not imitate. Only pets will mimic people and noises they hear. The African gray parrots are the best mimics.
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www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/dixie/parrots.htm
www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/dixie/parrots.htm
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Parrots are not equally vocal, and many species likely imitate for different reasons. For example, African grey parrots in the wild are known to imitate other species of birds. ... Copenhagen and Climate ChangeThe people of the world continue to grapple with the question of how best to combat climate change...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-parro...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-parrots-mimic
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Alex, and parrots trained to have a large vocabulary, have the ability to convey meaningful information to people. A lot of findings suggest that parrots are among the more intelligent animal species; ... Don’t believe those web sites that say parrots only mimic words. Instead read some recently published (later than...
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askville.amazon.com/parrots-speak-mimic/AnswerViewer.do...
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A search on "talking parrots" led us to several variations of an amusing, slightly off-color joke about ... Just as with people, much of a parrot's ability also depends on the individual bird, its teacher, and its environment. Nonetheless, we found free advice and a variety of products for training a pet bird to talk.
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ask.yahoo.com/20021104.html
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Birds tweet and parrots mimic. People do it too for similar reasons. ... The Koori people are right. We are our brother/sisters keepers. "I'm alright Jack (and bugger you)" was a virtually unknown philosophy in Australia outside predator and prey feeding of other species than human, until the whalers, the redcoats,
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www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2601991.htm
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Parrots raised by humans show an amazing ability to mimic people and noisy objects, but in the wild they have never been observed mimicking. ... Because large parrots live so long, and may out live their owners, it is often necessary for owners to put the birds in their wills.
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www.seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eume...
www.seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordates/craniata/aves/psittaciformes/parrots.htm
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"mimic" means to repeat or imitate somebody or something.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_parrots_mimic
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