He laughs at the humans

[liz]

My two laugh when they hear someone else laugh. They like to laugh.

I used to think they mimic but Rambo gave me a crash course in what he/she was capable of. Like Myrtle he must have mimicked words before he learned what they meant. Like a child they learn what the words mean and how to use them.

I see no reason why these kids don't know that something is funny and then laughs at it.

Myrtle thinks the word "yoohoo" is funny and laughs every time she calls me with it.

[Pajarita]

You do have a point, Wolf. Never thought of that.

Why he associates it with walking on the floor of the cage or.. that one other thing he does, is beyond me. Kinda makes me wonder... What DID he hear before I was born?

Parrots are funny in what they choose to learn and what they don't. For one thing, they remember words they learned long ago and still repeat them every now and then. I've had Sophie CAG for 9 years and she still calls for Adrian and Garland (the names of the children of the previous owner) even though she hasn't heard these names in as many years as she has been here. But, aside from that, I think that there are certain sounds they find particularly attractive (in a completely personal way, mind you) and like to imitate them themselves so they can hear them over and over. And, of course, the 'consequence' of said sounds makes a difference, too. So a delighted laugh is something they would be eager to learn, I would think. But the 'reward' of the sound could also be a physical pleasure, also. For example, my male Senegal is always asking Zoey, the object of his affection, if she wants scritches by saying "Pica Pica?" to her because this is the way I ask them if they want them. Another example is Isis, an African Red Belly female I took in last year in July (so she has been here for a little over a year). Isis had never said a single word or made a single human sound but she now says "Come here", "I'm here", "Where?" and "Baby" - all these words are easy to her because they resemble her natural vocalizations (I think, I only have one ARB so I can't really tell for sure) but she has now started saying "Nite Nite" every single night without fail, and this is not an 'easy' sound for her. Why did she learn this and not other stuff? Because it means she is going to get her seed/nuts dinner which she loves! So, every evening, when I come downstairs to turn off their radio and lights and give them dinner, she softly says: "Nite nite" over and over waiting by her bowl to get her dinner.

[Wolf]

Or after you were born, but before you remember.

[seagoatdeb]

Both my birds laugh, My Red belly has a number of laughs that she heard a lot of people doing. My Meyers does my laugh. I think they aare just imitating something they find exciting. Gaugan, the Red Belly tickes my ear and makes me laugh, and that laugh is one of her things she does when she wants me to give her attention, along with cockatiel chirps she learned from my cockatiel and peekabo.