Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Parrots, Intelligent Animals Mimic Human Speech

Parrots  are one of the pets that are very well liked, because the intelligence to speak. In nature, this bird species live in moist forests, especially in low-lying hills to the height of 1000-2000 m above sea level. Parrots  like fleshy fruits are thick and hard. He also drank the nectar of flowers. To meet the protein needs of Parrots  eat insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, dragonflies and ant eggs. Parrot birds lay eggs every two to three grains of the spawning season.


Famous parrot eloquent. But there's no guarantee at all that if we keep the bird Parrots  will become part of the family and will be able to talk. The resulting sound is a form of parrot chirp chirp like birds. However, that sets it apart is the parrot able to sing by imitating the words are often heard. Parrots  can talk like human beings because of parrot uses its tongue to produce a sound like the vowel letters, as well as us, humans.

In humans, the sound generated from the larynx (larynx) and can be changed according to the movement of the tongue in the mouth. Things like this that help us to gucapkan vowels and consonants even though the letter was complicated. Until now, not a few researchers believe, Parrots  as well as the other birds, produce and varying his voice using larynx and syrinx without using his tongue at all. Apparently, Parrots  move the tongue forward and backward when talking.

The researchers tried to do research on a number of Parrots . Syrinx of birds and then replaced a very small electronic speaker. When treating listen to the sound amplifier, a lawyer AIT drive the bird's tongue. The researchers found, the movement of the tongue is less than a millimeter will nimbulkan big difference related to voice quality vocal Parrots  issued. Continue to how big the difference? The difference is, says Beckers, greater than the difference between the letter 'a' and 'o' the man said.

So it is very exciting to be able to have a parrot at home. Trust is one of the stress-relieving medication. Enjoy!