On Sep 29, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Steve Sloan wrote:
You may want to add parrots and crows to the list, because they're also pretty smart. In particular, I've seen parrots in documentaries show remarkable abilities for spoken and symbolic language.
You're right -- I forgot about them. As I understand it it's possible for some birds, if confined and deprived of an interesting environment, to actually go insane. (Though I'm not sure how that would be diagnosed...)
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