parrots

I was reading a internet site about a parrot that supposely can interpt information about its owner from a distance. Is it true? Here is the site http: //www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/ for a better summary. Thanks in advance.

I just listened to this parrot called N'KISI, after looking at a webpage about him at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27kisi) and the conversation it has is amazing. I thought it was fake when I read the transcript, until I actually listened to the clip, but you can tell its a parott...

Anyone over 25 and from the UK will probably remember the naff TV show That's Life, a sort of magazine style consumer show in which the hosts would go off and do battle with cowboy plumbers and such. The show would also feature people and their zany pets, for examples dogs saying "sausages" or...

Sigh. For some reason it's not enough is it that a parrot is found to have remarkable speech: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3430481.stm Okay fine so far. And then, of course, the almost inevitable trip into lala land: Telepathy??? What? Telepathy, just thrown into the article for no...

I did a couple of searches and it appears that this article has not been discussed here. The link contains claims of statistically significant results from double blind tests for telepathy between species. It even claims publication in a peer-reviewed journal. It also involves Sheldrake...

Got this from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3430481.stm Along with actual "real" speech, apparently N'kisi even does telepathy! Can a parrot take the JREF Million Dollar Challenge? Could it also pass a polygraph test?

Full Story from BBC News Hmmm - read the article more closely and this quote jumped out at me:

I'm in a new neighborhood and it happens that my next door neighbor owns a Parrot. It's outside a lot and likes to talk and make strange sounds, so I decided to do a little research on talking birds. Among my searchings, I found this site: Budgie Research This site features a bird that the...