A captive African grey called N'kisi has a vocabulary of 950 words and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. When he first met Dr Jane Goodall, the renowned chimpanzee expert, after seeing her in a picture with apes, N'kisi said: "Got a chimp?"
Then I bet he was like, go back to the rainforest, bitch.
2 comments:
I liked that story, and found it slightly creepy. I find birds sligtly creepy in general.
wait until you hear what the bird sounds like...
http://www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/nkisi1_text.html
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