Wellensing produce language similar to humans

Wellensing produce language similar to humans

Wellensittiche are a very social species. The parrots use flexible sounds to communicate with each other. © Christopher Auger-Dominguez

Wellensing can speak in a similar way than we do. In order to create the complex vowels and consonants of our language, these parrot birds apparently also use similar brain mechanisms as neuroscientists have now discovered. They found a brain region specializing in speech in budgies that works similarly to language -related regions in the human brain. It is

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