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cool bird. that was pretty funny.
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wow! pretty amazing it could learn and differentiate between so many different audio cues - assuming that was what it was doing. Don't ask me
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African Greys have about the same intelligence as a 4 year old child. It didn't need cues. Thanks for the link Thomas.
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That was pretty fascinating. Very cool link.
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African Greys have a 3000 word vocabulary...more than most people I know.
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You can see it was allways staring at her hand where she held the treat it was given towards the end. It knew it'd get it eventually after it responded to the woman.

The thing is thoug, it's stuff like that which makes people want to go out and get one. Even though they got no idea of how to take care of it. And it's protected as well, isn't it?
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I came across another article about clever parrots: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/10/1942204&tid=14 Apparently it understands the concept of zero.