Cool Animals And Linguistics Link Of The Day

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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Dude! This parrot is smart enough to say “flied.” Flied! Do you know how cool it is that he can understand past tense and even process the patterns applied to them? So he was ultimately wrong on the correct grammatical pronunciation—the point is the pattern. That is Really Cool.

 

Yet another hint that animals* are smarter than certain people think they are.**

 

But parrots—I often wonder what my budgie is thinking when we talk to her. Maybe we should give her more mental stimulation, unless that blue fluffy prismatic tribble Mom put in her cage is enough. 

 

 

*Except quail. Quail are dumbasses.

 

**Yeah, I’m looking at you, Noam Chomsky

Comments

[luinmir.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I first saw N'kisi in Goodall's documentary about animal communication. It's remarkable to hear her speak!

It always makes me sad when I see African Greys, in particular, shut up in tiny little cages with barely any stimulation in the pet stores. I mean, these are beings with intelligence that is, I think, comparable to ours. (If not analogous. Different types of intelligence for different purposes, doncha know.)

Chomsky can bite it on this issue.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

And domestic turkeys... very very dumb.

Parrots, and especially African greys, are incredibly intelligent. I used to work at the zoo and one of the biggest problems we ran into was people who bought a parrot for a pet and then left it home alone all day, subsequently driving the parrot literally insane. I'd love to have one, but with a lifespan of nearly 70 years, it would almost certainly outlive me and then feel abandoned when I died.

Thanks for the link!

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Whoot! Someone at Starwood last summer had a couple of African Grays, including a juvenile. I didn't get a chance to hear them talk, but other people who did said they were pretty chatty. Maybe I'll see them next summer.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

That's the same article I posted a link to, isn't it? n_n

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Why, yes. Yes, it is. I should've credited you with the link. Sorry. But it was awesome!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

No problem, I was just glad to see you'd have found it interesting enough to repost. :)