[alexander_busek]

I always thought parrots would be more useful to the blind than a seeing eye dog. After all, a parrot can tell you what is around you. All a dog can do is tug at your hand.

Yeah, like a service parrot is gonna cry out "Caution! You are approaching an intersection!"

Parrots can articulate words, but they haven't the faintest understanding of their meaning.

Regards,

P.S. My service chameleon just ate my cricket companion.

[gogogodzilla]

Google ‘Alex the African Gray Parrot’... and then come back and say that. I doubt you will.

(That is, without being a liar.)

[eastforker]

You may be amazed at what birds can and do understand.Once upon a time it was thought that they only mi mick words, it is now known they can think,rationalize and solve abstract puzzles.

[George Smiley]

Parrots can articulate words, but they haven't the faintest understanding of their meaning.

I disagree. Cpckatiels, yes.

Used to have one of those that did a perfect imitation of a 9600 baud modem handshake. Strangest think I ever heard a bird mimic.

Do some basic research on African Grey parrots as they are the most vocal of all parrots, can develop vocabularies of several hundred words and are estimated to have the intelligence of the average two year-old, if I may use the terms "intelligence" and "two year-old" in the same sentence.

My wife gave her parrot a treat (he refers to all treats as "cookie" and was trained to do so before we got him), and they weren't the kind he preferred.

He threw the treat down and said, "Cookie".

She proceeded to give him another treat, and he repeated the behavior.

When she gave him the treat for the third time, he threw it down and said, "GOOD cookie", meaning that these were not the type of treat that he wanted.