Parrots naming their babies

[Pajarita]

We had already learned that parrots name their babies in the nest and that these babies continue using their name for the rest of their lives. But this is a study that goes further than that because it
probed a couple more things: 1) whether the babies choose the names and the parents use them or whether the parents name them and the babies continue using them - and 2) whether the names had a familiar or flock root or just arbitrary. VERY interesting and proving, once more, how very similar they are to us!

http://trueviralnews.com/?p=359498

PS. Sorry I haven't posted any articles for the last few days but I had to go out and buy a new laptop as mine would have cost over $400 to fix (how ridiculous is that?!) and I am still learning how to use it.

[ParrotsForLife]

I watched a video of that but it was finches naming their babies and the babies talking to the mother through the egg

[Wolf]

Loved the video, it was very informative. Between the article, which I also enjoyed, it also is suggesting a thing that I have long held about our parrots, that is that they know who they are, sense of identity or of being an individual and that they may indeed be self aware. I had started a topic asking what others thought about this. Not yet proof, but at least science is recognizing the possibility of this in our parrots.

[Pajarita]

Oh, yes, there is no doubt that they do know they are individuals and that they recognize themselves as been separate from 'all others'!