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Dan de Lyons

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2. Lovebirds can connect words with ideas

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 06:42 PM

Mar 2016

Whenever my little lovebird sees me with something in my hand, he says "Pick it up!"

He also shouts "Wake up!" when he wants the towels taken off his cage in the morning. I'm trying to get him to say "Ready!" when he's ready to go up to his cage for the night, and he did actually make that sound come out of him once. But he's defaulted to "Tee-Tee". It's simpler and it does the job.

He is not able to hold things with his upper limbs, so he has fixated on something he sees that he cannot do.

"Wake up!" makes him master of his cage, able to make the sun to shine.

He's about ten years old, an agapornis roseicollis.

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Little bird uses a linguistic rule thought to be unique to humans [View all] Eugene Mar 2016 OP

"...i have tried in my way to be free" Voice for Peace Mar 2016 #1

Lovebirds can connect words with ideas Dan de Lyons Mar 2016 #2

Wow! n/t DirkGently Mar 2016 #4

My little caique uses most of his words in context alcina Mar 2016 #13

that's so cute! renate Mar 2016 #16

Thanks! alcina Mar 2016 #21

He sounds a lot like Alex the African Grey parrot who had a similar style of speech Baobab Mar 2016 #17

He's like Alex's dumb brother :-) alcina Mar 2016 #20

Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #3

Guess how I found out about this post Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #5

So cute! Two very tiny guys. That's something one would want to see in person. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #8

Let's hope they don't breed with the Jabber Jay. n/t Gore1FL Mar 2016 #6

Really surprising that more animals don't have some kind of goldent Mar 2016 #7

It is amazing what people can notice when they Half-Century Man Mar 2016 #9

It could be, but there are a lot of animal studies goldent Mar 2016 #11

It seems it is the same with us. Half-Century Man Mar 2016 #12

Dogs definitely talk with both vocalizations and body language Baobab Mar 2016 #18

My dog (gone these past three years) would respond equally well to English or Japanese. Half-Century Man Mar 2016 #19

They do. By telepathy. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #10

But do they know the difference between "less" and "fewer"? nxylas Mar 2016 #14

These days, it seems that hardly anybody knows the difference. Chef Eric Mar 2016 #15