Re: Interesting Article - "Singing In The Brain"

["Rich Peet" richpeet]

I agree, If you want a bird to mimic in context you have to be
consistant with the context. Context being, time of day, trigger,
social relation, etc.

Linked is a small example of my wife with having a conversation with
her Parrot. In this context I am never referred to as Cute (aint that
the truth), the bird never gives me kisses either.

http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/ad.mp3
Rich

--- In  Marty Michener <> wrote:

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> At 09:24 AM 4/19/2007, you wrote:

> That's where I came in. I lived there, alone, all night.  Nobody
told them 
> that mynahs, like starlings and parrots, are very sensitive to the
SOCIAL 
> circumstances around a potential sound-learning experience. If
nothing is 
> going on socially (and they DO watch and listen to US for our social 
> contexts) the birds usually do not bother to learn the ambient
sounds. The 
> first 6 months' results were discouraging to the management, but quite 
> amusing to us.

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