it bent the fucking stick!

crows and ravens are pretty awesome. its a good thing they don't have thumbs.

Amazingly, it seems (some) birds are much more intelligent than we give them credit for. African Gray Parrots are supposedly the most intelligent, and I know we have a clip in the sift somewhere of "Einstein" the parrot, going through a circus act on a game-show, answering questions from its trainer.
Another documented high-vocab parrot is N'kisi. Check out this link to an audio recording of one of N'kisi's speech sessions. It could be a total fake, but a google search will show that N'kisi is well-documented. Adding to my initial suspicion was the fact that Aimee Morgana, N'kisi's trainer, seems kinda kooky. http://www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/nkisi1_text.html

One more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3430481.stm

Wow, nice link sfjocko. I wanna meet that parrot.

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Oh my goodness!

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Don't forget about Alex!

The crows...are calling my name, thought Caw.