Wednesday, July 27, 2011

After all we came from Parrots

a 25 year research on Venezuelan parrotlets have come up with some questions about the development of the capability of communication. According to Steve Beisingger, parrotlets learn a specific code of speech from their parents. The article that was posted on Science magazine reports the similarities of the learning process that involves learning a language for parrots and the human process of learning. More of the article is on link
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6041/398.full
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