They do, however, pine for the fjords.
Posted on 07/04/2005 5:44:16 PM PDT by upchuck
Or, how 'bout nuthin' from nuthin'?
At Dad's house we watch squirrels and bluejays eat out of Dad's hand. Both squirrels and bluejays pick up the offered peanuts and seem to weigh them--taking the heavier of the options.
Go figger.
Bet he tries to divide by zero.
I wonder how much of our tax dollars went to fund this important research?
... leaves nuthin'.
They do, however, pine for the fjords.
My dog understands a similar concept. Sometimes I throw him a scrap of food from the counter, and he naturally waits for another piece. I put up my hands, palms open, and say "all gone." He goes into the other room and sits down.
Lets see if these researchers understand the concept of zero, starting with their paychecks and grant money.
LOL!!!
Alex must be shown Hillary Clinton, and how much crackers the average parrot will have left after taxes if she is elected President. "Zero zero zero baaawwk! Zero zero zero baaawwk! Alex has zero crackers! Bawk!"
Compare that to the implications of Einstein's special theory of relativity, that you can exceed the speed of light, but you can't come back.
Food for thought. LOL.
Please! Alex is 28 years old. Must not scare an old parrot like that. Just hearing her voice might do him in. :)
Is that sorta like, "You can never go home again?" :)
Sorry to inform you, but Alex is a privately owned pet.
Someone show me their dog or cat with a 1000+ word vocabulary, that can initiate conversations. Not just answer questions, but actually communicate.
After hearing about Alex a while back, I did a bunch of internet searches about parrot behavior and intelligence.
When I finally quit a few hours later, the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up. Straight up!
For an animal with a brain smaller than a walnut, their perceptions, acuity, and reasoning are, well, frightening.
I suspect the reason it hasn't been studied alot more is that it might basically throw 100 years of psychiatry and neurology out the window.
Try having birds for pets.......They're like children. Except they don't grow up and go away - they remain pretty much as children until they get old.
28 isn't old, most large parrots live to be as old as humans.
My two macaws are smarter than some of my college students.
Their vocabularies exceed the average LA Unified School District high-school student.
See, Einstein always said one cannot exceed the speed of light - but his math says, one can.
But your odds of coming back are infintessimally small - like finding a razor-blade, edge on, in the pacific ocean.
Your milage may vary.
high-school student = high-school student's. (vocab.)
Yeah - they're great! Parrots rrrwaa-ck!
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