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According to the study, special membranes were found in parrots that are involved in learning.
Parrots, like all birds, do not have vocal cords and cannot make the sounds that we make using the same method.
They have an organ called the syrinx in the trachea that, through a cognitive imitation mechanism, can produce any sound imaginable.
In the brains of all songbirds, including parrots, there are so-called “learning nuclei” - special isolated groups of neurons that help birds remember the sounds they hear, reproduce them and make their own “remixes” of them.
The ability to imitate environmental sounds has developed in parrots during evolution.
Most likely, in the wild, it helps them communicate with each other during mating, overcome dangers, defend territory and find each other.
Jaco is rightfully considered the smartest parrot in the world.
Although this bird is inferior in appearance to some species, its intellectual abilities are at a high level.
In addition, since the bird has enough brains, its character is sometimes complex.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the smartest parrot was a bird of this particular breed.
It was Gray Alex in 2007, who reproduced 400 words, pronounced entire sentences, and also in several languages.