It is the same old thing, Parrots talking but is anybody listening. I read an interesting article about Parrot communications. My question is "Do parrots talk in English when they are out and about in the wild?"
It seems this guy invented a parrot house and has an entire field full of parrot houses and he does all kinds of research on them. Why and who gives a shit?, well he was interested in human communication and how that works. I think that is a good reason to have a bunch of parrots in your back yard. I have crack people in my back yard for no good reason at all. Most of them can talk, the mouth is moving all the time but they really do not say a damn thing. Talk about potential scientific subjects.
Anyway, these parrots appear to give their children "names" or at least individual identifiers. It does not appear that any other animals do that. Elephants certainly recognize each other after many years apart but as far as elephant people can tell it is just recognition. Penguins seem to recognize the family in a crowd of thousands. It appears that social birds need some way to "find" their family in a crowd. The parrots seem to give the children slightly different identifier or names. Jr. may be three peeps and a click while the little terrorist may be a click, a peep and a long tweet.
Mom and dad parrot are coming back to the nest with some seeds for the kids. They call them out but the kids don't response immediately. Dad issues a stern tweet with three peeps and a click. Jr. is going to get it when I get there, he tweets. Mom is so upset she chokes on the seeds and spits them out. An opportunistic squirrel gobbles them up. Shit, dad says, it is the same thing every time we try to have a nice family dinner.
Nice research though.
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