How Does a Parrot Learn Its Name in the Wild?
Biologist Karl Berg asks the question, “How do parrots learn their names?” Are they genetically encoded or are the learned from their parents? In this video, Producer Marc Dantzker delves into Karl’s work with Green-rumped Parrotlets in Venezuela, and explains how this simple question is shedding light on one of nature’s most complex communication systems.
(via: Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Don’t like the idea of the eggs being switched…but the study’s findings are interesting nonetheless.
We read about this in biology a few years ago. Apparently there are multiple species of bird that name their young.
