The ability of parrots to talk has always surprised and delighted people. Many have heard greetings or other scraps of phrases from their pet more than once, but how he learned this remains a mystery to many.
Many people are interested in the question, how did parrots learn to talk? Perhaps these abilities are direct evidence that these birds can think and understand? Unfortunately no. Parrots' ability to pronounce individual words or phrases is in no way related to their mental abilities. They simply reproduce what people have taught them or what they once heard by chance.
In the wild, like all other representatives of birds, parrots communicate with each other in their "bird language". When they get to people, they begin to imitate the sounds that they hear around them, that is, human speech. But all the same, this question causes a lot of interest, therefore, today there are a lot of assumptions and theories.
According to most biologists, parrots speak purely mechanically. But all the same, their ability can be called outstanding, because most birds do not repeat anything at all. Some believe that parrots can speak thanks to their large and thick tongue, which is somewhat similar to human language. But this statement raises doubts, because in hawks or falcons, the structure of the tongue is the same as in a parrot, but for some reason they are silent, and some species of birds with a small tongue (for example, a tropical starling) can be taught to pronounce individual words quite quickly.
Another common opinion is the assumption that human and bird speech (in our case, parrots) are similar to each other. That is why it is simple and easy for a multi-colored pet to imitate snatches of a human conversation or words from a favorite song.
It is quite possible that with the development of science, scientists will give an exhaustive answer to the question of why parrots reproduce human speech. However, today there is no definite answer, there are only versions.
