why are birds the only animals that can talk?
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When birds learn to mimic human speech, it's because they think their owners are their flock mates and they're trying to bond with them. They're also very intelligent. So the short answer is because they have a different kind of vocal organ than other reptiles (birds are technically reptiles) and mammals have.
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They're Among the Most Intelligent Bird Species Besides being one of the most popular pet bird species, African grey parrots are also one of the most intelligent.
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Just like their human owners, dogs like to talk. However, unlike body signals, barking can represent different things to different dogs. The pitch or volume of the bark will increase with the dog's level of emotion.
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Birds don't need their wings to eat or drink or move around. Many species of birds have wings but cannot fly, and they are able to live perfectly well without this ability. ... If a bird in the wild lost it's wings however, then it would not survive.
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No, on the intelligence scale, owls are just middling. The smartest birds are corvids, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays. Parrots would probably be a close second. However, what owls may lack in smarts, they more than make up for in special adaptation.
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Like mammals, birds are warm-blooded – their temperature always stays the same , even if it is cold outside. Bird don't have teeth , they have a hard beak that they use to get food or defend themselves. A bird has a light but strong skeleton and bones that are hollow.
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Giraffes do have a larynx (voice box), but perhaps they couldn't produce sufficient airflow through their 13-foot long (4 meter) trachea to vibrate their vocal folds and make noises. The researchers suspected the reason no one heard giraffe communication was because the sound frequency was too low for humans to hear.
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While humans use language to produce an infinite number of unique sentences as a form of communication, animals lack testability. Animals communicate by signal codes, which means they have a limited number of statements, generally as simple responses to certain situations.
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Please check back again soon. It may seem strange that among the more than 10,000 bird species in the world today is a group that literally cannot fly or sing, and whose wings are more fluff than feather. These are the ratites: the ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and cassowary.
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In general, cockatoos can be loud and incessant talkers. The Major Mitchell's species is noticeably quieter and more prone to natural calls. They can be taught to say a few basic words and can mimic whistles or alarms. Their natural calls are not too loud; they make exotic chirps and high pitched alarm calls.
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Animals communicate using signals, which can include visual; auditory, or sound-based; chemical, involving pheromones; or tactile, touch-based, cues.
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The reason why hummingbirds are known to be the only birds to be able to hover is because they are the only birds who are evolutionarily equipped to fly in one place for many consecutive wing beats. ... Eagles and other birds of prey can hover for short periods of time before diving in on ground-level or aquatic prey.
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The way that animals communicate are biological, or inborn. Human language is symbolic, using a set number of sounds (phonemes) and characters (alphabet), which allows ideas to be recorded and preserved. Animal communication is not symbolic, so it cannot preserve ideas of the past.
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Conures are also pair bond birds. As are all amazons. People assume all parrots mate for life. Not true.
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Both of these birds are extremely intelligent (though ravens seem a bit smarter than crows) and are quite playful. Ravens have at least 7 different calls and can imitate the calls of other birds (geese, jays, crows). They also use stunt flying to attract mates (barrel-rolling, flying upside-down, and somersaults).
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When migrating, however, birds often do climb to relatively great heights, possibly to avoid dehydration in the warmer air near the ground. ... Birds can fly at altitudes that would be impossible for bats, since bird lungs can extract a larger fraction of oxygen from the air than can mammal lungs.
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Crows / ravens are probably smarter than dogs, can be trained to sing better than parrots and trained to perform complicated tasks involving tools.