Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: More on Hookbills Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 88 17:23:31 GMT References: <6418@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: <6418@ihlpf.ATT.COM> >Then I sold him to a breeder with experience with wild birds and bought a BABY African Grey >Congo. Nice bird. The African Greys have an extraordinary ability to reproduce and sound. My brother works for an aviary and their Grey will yell at him when he goes into the cabinets, "hey, get out of there". He will call the dog, "Lucky, Lucky, come here boy, woof, ha, ha". He's got an incredible laugh. He'll make the phone ring and then yell, "answer the phone". He's basically got an incredible vocabulary. I don't know how long they worked with him to develop it, but all birds tend to pick things up more quickly after the first word they learn.