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why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart!

06-15-2012, 07:01 AM,

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RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart!

It definitely sounds like your Quaker knew exactly what she was doing, laurasav!

Some parrots may simply be mimicking, but many birds really do know what they're saying. This was pretty much proven from the experiments with Alex the African Grey parrot. For anybody not familiar with Alex:

http://www.123compute.net/dreaming/knocking/alex.html

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why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Thor - 04-23-2012, 10:54 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Mantis - 05-09-2012, 11:03 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by jenb128 - 06-10-2012, 04:48 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by laurasav - 06-10-2012, 05:00 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Ram - 06-10-2012, 05:06 PM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by laurasav - 06-12-2012, 04:49 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by jenb128 - 06-13-2012, 04:41 PM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Ram - 06-13-2012, 09:41 PM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Victor Leigh - 06-14-2012, 12:47 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Ram - 06-14-2012, 02:44 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Victor Leigh - 06-14-2012, 03:13 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Ram - 06-14-2012, 04:19 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by jenb128 - 06-14-2012, 04:46 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by laurasav - 06-14-2012, 05:01 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Victor Leigh - 06-14-2012, 08:26 PM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by jenb128 - 06-15-2012, 07:01 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Rphoenix - 06-22-2012, 01:27 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by andrew320 - 06-22-2012, 05:17 AM

RE: why do people say "bird brain" ? Birds are smart! - by Kronos - 07-02-2012, 05:11 AM

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