Thursday
Feb062014
Call of the Wild: Dr. Karl Berg

Image by: barloventomagico: Green-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus)Parrots, which have long amused us for their ability to imitate our vocal patterns, actually learn to caw their "names" from their parents, says a new Cornell study. The research offers the first evidence that parrots learn their unique signature calls from their parents and shows that vocal signaling in wild parrots is a socially acquired rather than a genetically wired trait.