Pet Parrots Blog » university of Florida http://www.petparrotsblog.com Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:46:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 News: Pet Parrots are Not Stupid! http://www.petparrotsblog.com/pet-parrots/news-pet-parrots-are-not-stupid http://www.petparrotsblog.com/pet-parrots/news-pet-parrots-are-not-stupid#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:38:37 +0000 http://www.petparrotsblog.com/?p=36 more »]]> Many people think that pet parrots are not very intelligent but science begs to differ with you. Apparently being a bird-brain is no longer an insult due to research done by the University of Florida.

According to their findings, Mockingbirds were able to pick out specific people out of thousands who they felt threatened to harm them showing the birds ability to be incredibly perceptive of everything around them and to respond appropriately.

Just think, if this is the case with Mockingbirds, how much more would this be associated with what are tame pet parrots?  Makes you think huh?

The full story can be found here: http://news.ufl.edu/2009/05/18/mockingbird/

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