For centuries man has loved birds and kept them in cages, as pets. What is interesting is that some of the birds like Parrot can be taught to imitate the human voice. There are many species of parrots which if properly taught can clearly speak many words and smaller sentences like human being. But how do they do it remains the question
The Parrot has a long and and thick tongue. Earlier some people believed that this enables these birds to speak like human beings, but this is not true. We know that hawks and eagles also have long and thick tongues but they cannot imitate human voice.
Parrot is more intelligent than other birds and thus can copy the human voice. The speech and hearing mechanism are slow and as a result the sounds coming out of their mouth resemble that of human beings. It is pertinent to note that parrots do not understand what they speak. They are able to imitate human voice by looking at lip movements.
There are more than 300 species of parrot known to man and most of these species are green in colour. Their length varies from 15 centimetres to 90 centimetres. Macaw a long tailed parrot native to South America is 90 centimetres long and they can live up to the age of 50 years. The female of all species of parrots lay white eggs.
