Thinking Like A Parrot: How Do Parrots View The World?
After we clambered down from the bushes ourselves, humans have kept (and every so often bred) parrots as pets, for ceremonial functions and to advertise their non-public wealth or energy to their fellow people for extra than 3 thousand years (extra here). But in contrast to cats, puppies, and the alternative animals that we stay with, parrots aren't domesticated: they're nevertheless wild animals Parrots’ apparent cleverness, gregarious personalities, wealthy social lives, behavioral flexibility, and lengthy lifespans, mixed with their nearly uncanny capacity to imitate sounds offer them the social flexibility to bond to people and impart an apparently human-like intelligence. For many parrot keepers, those birds are their own circle of relatives participants and for a number of us, parrots are our best, and possibly only, friends. Considering the oversized presence of parrots in our lives, our houses, and our imaginations, we regularly assume we recognize almost the whole t