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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Intelligent Parrots, or Self-deception and Gullibility.
Message-ID: <23@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:30:07 GMT
References: <1988Mar4.162334.18184@utzoo.uucp>
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> I can also accept, since parrots are 
> excellent mimics, that a bird might develop an extremely large repertoire 
> of "words."

Reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story I read about a linguist
that visited a tribe in the Amazon basin.  Seems they had a parrot
that was the last "speaker" of the language of a vanished tribe, so
no one in the village could understand what the historic bird said.























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