Mike and all,
To my ears Chook is clearly saying "chook chook", it is his name
after all, (and is NOT saying chop-chop). At one point he mimics an
Australian male voice saying 'waddaya doin' (translated from Aussie =3D =
what are you doing). Other bits of speech are partly obscured by the
calls of other zoo creatures.
i.e. from this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWeQjkQpeJwY&NR
Vicki
On 08/01/2012, at 5:26 AM, Michael Dalton wrote:
> Howdy Peter and others!
>
> Yes, Peter, the bird does say "chop-chop" at one point. The lack of
> comprehension for bird speech amazes me. I will be a speaker at the
> Houston Parrot Festival in a couple of weeks and the subject of my
> talk is the difficulty people have understanding speech generally
> and particularly bird speech. Talking birds are attempting to
> communicate with us, but few owners or members of the public are
> listening. (I cansee someof you out there rolling your eyes.) We
> don't have to look to space aliens, because that would be a far
> greater task than understanding our own language spoken by another
> terrestrial creature.
>
> Mike
> Florida
> www.ParrotSpeech.com
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> Re: Lyrebird imitating construction at Adelaide Zoo...
> Posted by: "Peter Shute" pshute2
> Sat Jan 7, 2012 2:17 am (PST)
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> There are indeed at least 5 bits that sound like human speech to me
> in the Chook recording, particularly the phrase "chop chop". If
> it's true that these birds only pick up new sounds gradually, that
> bird must have been exposed to a lot of repeated phrases.
>
> Peter Shute
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