After Nigel the English-speaking African grey parrot vanished from his owner’s California home for four years, making a return fairly unlikely, amazingly he not only returned but could now speak Spanish.
The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South…
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.