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Birds seem to be approaching the intellectual level of humans

24.03.2006 Source:
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Imagine that at a court session in Düsseldorf one of the witnesses was a parrot. In fact, the parrot must appear at court as a defendant in a law suit, but the parrot’s owners must be sued for its trickery.

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After numerous complaints of the plaintiffs the judge said he would like to listen to what the parrot had to tell. And the female parrot Kora did not hesitate to tell its story. Journalists with voice recorders also had a good opportunity to record the story. At first, Kora distinctly pronounced its full name and then burst into spiteful laughing. That sounded incredibly arrogant and the audience in the court was taken aback with the laughing. Indeed, as the plaintiffs stated the exotic bird was awfully unbearable. One of them, a woman living next door to Kora said she suffered from mental diseases because of the parrot. To confirm it, she presented medical certificates.

Experts estimated that the sounds produced by the ill-bred bird could easily penetrate through the walls and disturb neighbors. And the parrot was bold enough to confirm the expert opinion with some harsh words. The judge demanded that Kora must be taken away from the court and that its owners must pay a fine for the troubles the bird had caused to the neighbors.

The feathered hooligan behaved at court the way it felt that must be, and highly likely that was its habitual manner of communication. This story occurred a couple of years ago and it was rather funny indeed.

The grey African parrot named N’kisi is a really scientific sensation. Much has been written about the bird that is not just a mere talking bird. N’kisi is one of the most advanced users of human language in the animal world. Its vocabulary consists of 950 words. The parrot invents his own words and phrases if it is confronted with some new ideas with which its existing repertoire cannot cope. Just the way as a human child would do.

N’kisi’s behavior is quite well-mannered: it uses words and phrases in the context of a conversation, at that uses the right grammar forms of verbs depending upon if it speaks about the past, the present or the future.

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