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Friday, 30 November 2012

Parrots' mimicking talent may be for addressing individuals

A study indicates that at least some parrots' talent for mimicking sounds, which underlies their “talking” skill, functions in nature to let them communicate with individual parrots they encounter.


Posted by Dr CLÉiRIGh at 06:03
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