You might know that parrots are chatty birds, but have you ever wondered what they are saying?
Yellow-naped amazons are a critically endangered type of parrot that lives in Central America. To protect their territory, these birds sing complex duets, with pairs of birds singing together.
Scientists used software developed for human language to learn more about these intriguing parrot calls. They discovered that yellow-naped amazons have a “vocabulary” of 36 different calls.
Parrot partners coordinate their singing, and males and females make different calls. What clever parrots!
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