Can parrots speak?

Hammer89

Or do they just make noises which sound like words, like babies do. You know when babies mumble something and both parents are huddled around going, 'My son just spoke. What did he say?' but really he said nothing, just made a noise, which is what all words are if you think about it.

So can parrots speak or do they sometimes make noise which resemble words and we pick what word it's closest to and then pretend that our parrot spoke English?

turdball

Can I have whatever your on?

freshpopcorn

I know a parrot called Joey, he never stops!

my3cents

Our parrot used to talk very clearly. So clearly that if you picked up the phone he'd start speaking before you and the person at the other end would end up talking to a parrot, very difficult to explain.

fran38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM8aBESf8EI

Cee-Jay-Cee

Hammer89 wrote: »

So can parrots speak or do they sometimes make noise which resemble words and we pick what word it's closest to and then pretend that our parrot spoke English?

Yes.

retro:electro

This parrot was almost a witness in a murder trial

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-40665520

Chancer3001

All any of us do is repeat sounds we hear

We can.choose loads of words to get what we want or express things tho.

Parrots less so

Junkyard Tom

https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y?t=128

branie2

I think they do

M.T. Cranium

Sure, go ahead, this is Talk Radio 103.9 on your dial, and I'm listening.

Most parrots are inept mimics, like Theresa May's impression of a human.

Muckka

They say crow's or ravens can mimic different sounds.

They're crafty bird's, them crow's.

I don't know much about parrot's...

Hammer89

Chancer3001 wrote: »

All any of us do is repeat sounds we hear

We can.choose loads of words to get what we want or express things tho.

Parrots less so

pleas advice

do any of us really 'speak' ?

RMAOK

I misread the title initially as "can carrots speak?"

branie2

RMAOK wrote: »

I misread the title initially as "can carrots speak?"

Maybe they do in the Garden Gang books

Dakotabigone

Up she flew and the cock flattened her.

BeerWolf

Can parrots speak?

Ariadne

I think they are speaking. Some just mimic but others put words together in a meaningful way, such as African Grey Parrots. My mother-in-law has two and one says things like "mama stupid cow" (Well in German, talking about the mother-in-law) and then the bird says about herself "Bella lovely cow". The boy also kept squawking the equivalent of "home time" in German to this guy who was noisily doing work on the house because he didn't like it. The girl also uses her own name and my wife's as a sort of hybrid, like Brangelina for example They have the intelligence of three or four year old children apparently. You have to be careful what you say in front of them.