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Parrots learn just like children

Postby Pajarita » Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:28 am

A new study done with crows and keas shows that they learn in exactly the same way that human babies do: by playing, observing and trial and error! This is not amazing to us, the lucky ones who keep parrots, but I bet most people don't even realize how similar they are to us.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-crows-kea ... human.html
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