Why can parrots imitate human speech, but our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, cannot?
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Parrots evolved to be able to imitate all manner of sounds. Our speech is just another sound to them.
Other primates did not evolve to speak or imitate sounds, their throats, voiceboxes, mouth, tongue etc. are the wrong shape to imitate our speech. They are physically incapable even if they wanted too.
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