Re: OT: Parrot Grasps Concept of Zero


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?).

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