Smart Birds
Some parrots can talk-but can they really understand what they're saying?
October 1, 20086m 52s
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Some parrots can talk-but can they really understand what they're saying?
In this podcast, researcher Irene Pepperberg describes her cognitive experiments with African grey parrots, and discusses why the line between human and animal intelligence is sometimes blurry.
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