The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.
Scientists studied a parrot for 30 years and found he had the intelligence…
Scientists studied a parrot for 30 years and found he had the intelligence of a five-year-old human. He had a vocabulary of 150 words and could ask for a banana. If he was offered a nut instead, he would stare in silence, ask for the banana again, or take the nut and throw it at […]
The first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot…
The first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”.
There was a death metal band whose lead vocalist…
There was a death metal band whose lead vocalist was a parrot.