Meet Apollo: the record-breaking TikTok parrot with the intelligence of a human toddler
1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/Haggunenons in digitalbioacoustics from guinnessworldrecords.com
Been following Apollo for a while. It's a really impressive bird. Not only he repeats words but understands contexts and a few simple phrases.
The couple who own Apollo (weirdly I don't want to write "own" for such a smart animal, but anyway) are basically emulating the methods use with [Alex the Parrot] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
Apollo is impressive, but he's not yet quite as impressive as Alex was.
For anyone interested in the subject of speech/language/higher communication in animals, a playlist of NativLang videos; Can Animals Grammar?