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‘You bloody fool’: Australian talking duck proves birds can imitate speech
- jacobmischka 5y agoThere's a line somewhere between vaguely imitating sounds and actually imitating speech, and I think this duck is on the side of the former.
- Pet_Ant 5y agoAnd yet monkeys & other primates can’t seem to. That is strange
- 988747 5y agoIt's just a matter of how their vocal cords are built. Basically birds vs primates divide is like this: being able to imitate sounds without understanding vs understanding but being unable to speak, and using sign language instead.
- tomtomistaken 5y ago"The chickadees, Luce. it sounds like they're saying 'cheeeseburger'."
- billsmithaustin 5y agoPlanet of the Ducks it isn’t.
- mikewarot 5y agoBirds can parrot human speech?
- nsonha 5y agoLet's call them parrot
- phenkdo 5y agoPareidolia?
- ekianjo 5y agoErm... I think that says more about researchers having bad pattern recognition machines rather than ducks speaking human words.
- NackerHughes 5y agoFinally, it's been proven! What are parrots?