• jol
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    4 months ago

    Been following Apollo for a while. It’s a really impressive bird. Not only he repeats words but understands contexts and a few simple phrases.

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      4 months ago

      The couple who own Apollo (weirdly I don’t want to write “own” for such a smart animal, but anyway) are basically emulating the methods use with [Alex the Parrot] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

      Apollo is impressive, but he’s not yet quite as impressive as Alex was.

      For anyone interested in the subject of speech/language/higher communication in animals, a playlist of NativLang videos; Can Animals Grammar?