Several bird species, including mynas, ring-necked parakeets, cockatiels, budgerigars, cockatoos, and eclectus parrots, ...

But around humans, parrots often imitate human words because ... To see and hear Einstein talk to her trainer and sing "Happy Birthday," watch this TED talk.

Yet bird communications through melodious songs ... identical genes are activated when learning to sing (birds) or talk (humans). “If early humans developed their own language by imitating ...

Like cats with meow, which is the exclusive way of communicating with humans, parrots have developed the ability to “talk” as a system of communication with us that they never use in nature to ...