Why do birds such as parakeets/parrots imitate things owners say and learn phrases to ‘communicate’. It appears that they enjoy it and even are affectionate.
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They’re too intelligent to be a bird. They constantly need to learn things or they get bored easily.
I read about a parrot where who knows basic words of things, then the owner showed him a cherry, a fruit he’s never seen/tasted before, he called it applemato. To him its a combination of apple and tomato in taste and look. So at least for this one parrot, he’s not just imitating, but have the intelligence to do some manipulation with our language.
In Australia, where there are wild parrots, the pet parrots that got lost goes back to teaching their wild parrots friends English words they picked up during time as a pet. So they can teach it as well!
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