🦜 Parrots mirror our words. Whales sing across miles of ocean. Yet no animal is known to speak as humans do. The answer lay elsewhere until neuroscience caught up.
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🧠 Evolution arrived at similar solutions in lineages separated by ~300 million years.
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Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-polly-community-science-reveal-species.html
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What does Polly say? Community science data reveal species differences in #vocallearning by #parrots @SciReports https://phys.org/news/2022-12-polly-community-science-reveal-species.html
While most animals don't learn their vocalizations, everyone knows that parrots do—they are excellent mimics of human speech. But how large is the vocabulary of different parrot species? Do males "talk" more than females? Does a parrot's vocabulary expand with age? A new study publishing Dec. 5 in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, titled "A survey of vocal mimicry in companion parrots," adds to what we know about animal vocal learning by providing the largestcomparative analysis to date of parrot vocal repertoires.
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