I’ve been reading up about the different red-headed parrots, of which this is one, but I can’t begin to tell you which. The name on the original print from the Biodiversity Heritage Library that I have used, ‘platycercus’, seems to be a very general term, hence the confusion. I have combined it with several textures of my own.
Didn’t you always know that parrots were extremely intelligent? I give you this excerpt from Creation.com:
[…] researchers have shown what many parrot owners have known or suspected—that parrots can use individual words in appropriate situations. For example, studies by Brandeis University (USA) researcher Dr Irene Pepperberg on an African Grey parrot named “Alex” showed that these birds have an impressive intelligence—about the same as a five-year-old child. When Pepperberg’s research subjects spoke English, it was not mere “parrot fashion”. She said, “If I ask Alex … how many keys; he’ll tell me ‘two’. If I ask him what colour, he’ll say ‘green’ and if I ask him what shape, he’ll say ‘three-quarter’.” He was able to correctly identify 100 objects, do simple addition and identify seven colours, just as children do.
The article goes on to say that parrots can also behave like five-year-old children in deliberately choosing not to give the right answer even though they know it full well. Wouldn’t you just know it!
- The World Parrot Trust
This Parrot Has The Most Hilariously Evil Laugh. Soon He Will Take Over The World.
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Take care and keep laughing!
I love parrots. A friend had an African Grey which I looked after when she was on holiday. By the time she collected him he’d adopted a strong Scottish accent!
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I love it!
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Gorgeous! I love parrots! I watched a documentary some time ago about the intelligence of animals and they showed a parrot that could work out how to open a lock although it had never seen it before. Crows I think are the most intelligents (can use tools and all).
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Thanks! However intelligent, I think I’d rather have a parrot in the house than a crow!
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Lovely design Sarah and a reassuring plug for animal/avian intelligence! I know how clever cats and dogs can be so why not parrots? 😀
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Thank you, Jane. Exactly!
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Very cool information about the parrots – wonderful design the layers only bring him out all the more and beautifully.
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Bless you!
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Parrots are funny and very intelligent. They just make too much noise for me. Your parrot here is very beautiful Sarah 😀
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Thanks, Irene. Actually, I couldn’t cope with the noise either!
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