Re: OT: Parrot Grasps Concept of Zero

In article <1124676112.039069.304340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"kuff (Isaac Adams)" <kuff00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Phaedrine wrote:
> > In article <1121013264.966108.292100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "kuff (Isaac Adams)" <kuff_1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Alex, a 28-year-old African gray parrot who lives in a lab at Brandeis
> > > University in Massachusetts, has a brain the size of a walnut.
> >
> > Very interesting story but walnut size? Nopers. When you get that
> > feathered little head between your fingers, the head is only about the
> > size of a grape. His brain is much smaller. But brain size may be
> > irrelevant. Parrots are rather smart.
>
> Above a certain minimum size it may be irrelevant. I've heard tell of
> parrots with hundreds of words vocabularies. It may have something to
> do with their lifespans (wonder how smart a 100 year old tortise is?).

Well maybe... grays and amazons live 50-60 years in captivity while
grays, yellow napes and blue-fronteds are among the best talkers.
Macaws live to be around 75 but they don't talk as well. Usually
parrots develop their vocabularies early if they are decent talkers. A
friend of mine had a cockatoo who talked really well. He imitated her
calling her husband and her husband calling her perfectly in tone,
volume and intonation so that each had to listen twice to make sure who
it really was. That was VERY funny and no one can tell me that bird did
not have a little bit of fun doing that.

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