Why can parrots and parakeets repeat words but not have conversations? What are their brains like?

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I know they’re just mimicking words and attach no meaning to them but can someone explain why they’re not able to attach meaning to them and form sentences in the way that humans do? I guess the wider question is why humans can’t communicate with animals.

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Imagine you only speak English and someone says a line in Spanish to you, you could probably repeat that line back but you wouldn’t know what it means. That’s parrots.

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