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Thread #97645   Message #1923552
Posted By: Alice
31-Dec-06 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Remarkable Talking Parrot 'Got chimps?'
Subject: BS: Remarkable Talking Parrot 'Got chimps?'
I keep thinking about this amazing news story I saw a few days ago on the BBC news online. The funniest part was when he met Jane Goodall and asked, "Got a chimp?"

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vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his
existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do.

Parrot's oratory stuns scientists