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Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
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| 2004/01/26
| Alex Kirby
Posted on 01/26/2004 8:36:46 AM PST by aculeus
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To: martin_fierro
"Some people have a way with words, others..........not have way?" - Steve Martin
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:55:03 AM PST
by
michaelt
To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; Piltdown_Woman; RadioAstronomer; Ichneumon
Where's medved when you need him ...
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:55:55 AM PST
by
Junior
(Some people follow their dreams. Others hunt theirs down and beat them mercilessly into submission)
To: bmwcyle
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory!
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:56:17 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Chief Engineer, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
To: tiamat
Sounds like a very special young lady - my congratulations to you and yours. If you can keep a sense of humor, the rest of the battle truly is downhill.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:56:31 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ sounds good to me!)
To: aculeus
i came within an ace of buying a smart bird last year.... it was a conure. Little green guy.
I bent down to look at him and he asked me "Whatcha doin'?"
So I said , "Looking at you! "
"You looking at me?" , said the bird in an Al Pacino sort of voice.
i messed around with him for a bit, and then wandered over to the next set of cages, and just moments later, I hear this little voice, "Here, kitty kitty kitty! " and it's the conure, craning his head and staring at me and trying to get me to come back to play!
THAT boy knew EXACTLY what he was doing and saying!
If i had had 900 bucks, I'd have a green bird today!
Tia
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:00:30 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: bmwcyle
Don't forget: Spam Spam Spam Spam...
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:00:49 AM PST
by
BadAndy
To: aculeus
The new Democratic front-runner?
To: Johnny_Cipher
THANKS! ;-)
We are very blessed in this: she is affectionate ( a lot of autistic kids are not) and she has a sense of humor.
I tell people to think of her as being a couple of years younger than she actually is, and to think of her as being an "english as a second language" person.
Our family is pretty eccentric, so she fits in and is loved.
Tia
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:03:57 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: aculeus
Once I observed a parrot, or a macaw, I'm not sure which, in a pet store. He whistled a neat little tune. When I tried to whistle it back to him, he became a bit frustrated at my poor rendition, and proceeded to repeat the song SLOWER so that I might get it correct! One of the darndest things I ever saw. As a result, this story does not surprise me.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:04:53 AM PST
by
bk1000
(put him back in the spider hole)
To: DMCA
One way some telepathy phenomena can be explained is by what the Bible calls "familiar spirits". In other words they are spirits that are familiar with a certain human and can communicate by interjecting words (thoughts) into the mind.
The Bible of course condemns encouraging this sort of interaction.
In the Old Testament there was an account of God causing a donkey to speak with an intelligible voice.
In this case a spirit could be at work with the parrot and the owner but not of God, simply to cause confusion and deception which God allows.
To: tiamat
Our family is pretty eccentric, so she fits in and is loved. One of my cousins had congenital hearing loss that went undiagnosed until he was four. After it was found and corrected, he went from speaking "Martian" to something approximating English but not quite. His diction continues to improve every day. So naturally, his nickname in the family is "My Favorite Martian."
And "eccentric" is a good thing. You're never alone, and you're never boring :)
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:07:55 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ sounds good to me!)
To: aculeus
My African Grey likes to squawk like my Quaker Parrot just so the Quaker will get in trouble for making to much noise. The Grey also yells at the cats when they start playing too rough. THis guy knows hundreds of words and, when he wants a treat, he asks for it by name. Give him something else and it gets dumped. When he is outside his cage, he has also learned how to unscrew the bolts holding it together. He has also learned how to open the food dish doors on the outside and make them look like they are shut so he can sneak out when we aren't looking. Several times I've come home from work to find the little guy on top of his cage with the door shut and secure and a slightly propped open food dish door. One day, I happened to catch him proping that dish door open. Very clever animal and definitely more intelligent than several people I know.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:17:15 AM PST
by
doc30
To: Johnny_Cipher
Lovely plumage, the Norwegian Blue ... If you hadn't nailed him to the bloody perch he'd be push'in up daises!
To: Johnny_Cipher
YES!
Kudos to YOU guys and your cousin!
Tia
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:24:32 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: MHGinTN
I can attest to birds being smart ... the Blue Jays born in my trees return to pick up broken Black Walnuts from the driveway, then fly up into the tree to find a suitable fork in limbs into which to place the halves so they can peck at the meat inside. When the meat is gone, they pick up the shell and toss it down, then go for another and return to their crook to extract the meat!Try and top this one: some twenty years ago, my grandmother had a problem with birds flying down and gobbling up a row of seedlings in her vegetable garden. So she erected a fence to protect the seedlings from aerial attacks. So what did the birds do? They simply started walking along the row munching the seedlings!
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:28:12 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Death is certain; little chance of success; what are we waiting for???)
To: aculeus
I don't care how smart the bird is, I'll bet he tastes like chicken.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:31:16 AM PST
by
mcg1969
To: MHGinTN
The crows in my neighborhood take the walnuts and drop them onto the road (the cul de sac, no less) to break them open. Very interesting behavior.
To: aculeus
The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
My brother had an African grey. It was awesome.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:34:20 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: aculeus
The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. Pull N'kisi's talon, pull N'kisi's talon. Squawk.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:34:28 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Dean's problem is that he's upset that someone stole his strawberries.)
To: aculeus
They should get his DNA and mix it with other genius birds, creating a super-genius species of parrots that could take over the world.
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posted on
01/26/2004 9:35:24 AM PST
by
Brett66
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