Can parrots actually speak the human language?
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Can parrots actually speak the human language?
Parrots can learn to respond to various cues with appropriate phrases or actions. When someone puts their coat on and gets ready to go out, our parrot will say “going to the shops?” and when we say goodbye to him, he always says “won’t be long!”. When he talks he usually speaks in my mum’s voice, but when he hears my dad come home from work, he will drop his tone and say “hello” in a much lower voice than usual. He will also ask for orange juice if he wants it. He definitely has a concept of what he is saying, even if he has learnt by picking up on things we say to him.
Parrots, in the wild, imitate sounds they hear. It’s part of their mating rituals. In the human world, they imitate the sounds humans around them make. If the human makes a single sound often, then they parrot begins to repeat the sound. It’s just repeating sounds, or course. They don’t have any concept of what they mean. A friend of mine had a parrot of some sort. They also had a smoke detector in need of a battery replacement. So the smoke detector beeped all the time. The parrot lived next to this smoke detector. So, naturally it got really good at copying the smoke detector noise.