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The Bird is the Word: These talking parrots are really something special.

Last week, there was news about the 104 year old foul-mouthed macaw named Charlie, who claims to have lived with Sir Winston Churchill and repeats, "F#@% the Nazis" in a distinctly Churchillian voice.

And this week, there's another story about an African grey parrot named N'kisi that has a stunning vocabulary of 950 words, and a sense of humour, according to the venerable Beeb.
He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do.
Now, talking parrots don't get the press coverage they used to, unless they might be able to repeat what a famous wartime prime minister thought of the Nazis. That Charlie's a tough act to follow.

But, it seems that N'kisi claims also to have powers of mental telepathy. Whar? You might find that hard to believe, but it's all documented here on the Internet.
The N'kisi Project is a series of controlled experiments and ongoing research in interspecies communication and telepathy conducted by Aimee Morgana and her language-using parrot N'kisi. The images shown above are stills from the video document "Initial Interspecies Telepathy Experiments", a research project with the collaboration and support of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.
Dr. Mandrake...er, Sheldrake and his lovely assistant, Aimee Morgana, have documented proof of all this bunk, which is enough to satisfy the BBC, it seems. Others might be more skeptical. Old Charlie the parrot might actually be saying, "F#@% N'kisi."
Elaine: No, it's not debunked, it's totally bunk.

Jerry: Isn't bunk bad? Like, that's a lot of bunk.

George: No something is bunk and then you debunk it.

Jerry: What?

Elaine: Huh?

George: I think.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, this bunk about Charlie and N'kisi is pretty much debunked. I think.
Posted by abnu on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 @ 12:05 AM [ + ]

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