Escaped domestic parrots teach wild birds to speak English! What’s more, talkative parents may well pass along this second language to their chicks. A similar phenomenon occurred in Australia where some “lyrebirds still reproduce the sounds of axes and old shutter-box cameras their ancestors once learnt.” (click photo for full article)

Escaped domestic parrots teach wild birds to speak English! What’s more, talkative parents may well pass along this second language to their chicks.

A similar phenomenon occurred in Australia where some “lyrebirds still reproduce the sounds of axes and old shutter-box cameras their ancestors once learnt.”

(click photo for full article)

australiangeographic.com.au

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