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Parrots..

Parrots excite, when they have time,
Given the opportunity to think about it, it raises many meanings, not all of which are clear.

An example of this is that I remember years ago visiting a friend in a foreign country who had a large family and a parrot. I learned from our friend's wife that the parrot is good at talking.
She said: Ask him, you must. . .
I said: What should I ask?
She said: Ask him how he is? So I asked how are you? So
He answers me: How are you?
I did not like this answer, because I know that is how they taught it.

And then a boy asked him the same question: How are you?
And the parrot himself answered, in the language of that country: On you
the curse . Hence the wonder. The question is the same, the answers are different.

- In the countryside, in the house of a psychologist

I talked about this to a psychologist, who researches the psychology of animals. There were many of them of every type in his country house. So he took me to a parrot he was sheltering. This parrot said: We taught him something. If you had heard him, you would have thought that he had some intelligence similar to that of a human. He pointed to a follower of his, so the follower came out, and suddenly he rang the outside doorbell. When he heard the bell, the parrot shouted and said: Here you are, welcome (also in the language of that country). My psychotic companion came out of the parrot's room, which was the dining room in the house, and pointed to the parrot with his hand saying goodbye, as if he was parting, and with him his hat, and then the parrot shouted: Goodbye.

The psychologist said: You might think that this parrot understands, and that it has intelligence.

I said: I do not think, but I am certain that all animals have intelligence and understanding, but I do not think that their understanding achieves this goal. Rather, it is education and training.

My friend said: Yes. It is education and training, and they are sayings that the parrot says on the appropriate occasions, but this indicates that it has, at least, the intelligence with which it links the words it utters to the appropriate circumstance in which they are said.

I said: The parrot must also be trained for appropriate occasions, otherwise it will not speak.

My friend said: Yes, there is a need for education to connect what is said
On his occasions. But if you let him hear what he hears and say what he says, he will say what he hears, whether good or bad, and he will not care. He often exposes the members of the household, quoting from them what they might say in their privacy, thus revealing their cover from where they did not expect it.

I said: The presence of a parrot is beneficial as it teaches people good manners.

My friend said: He teaches them caution. My friend, the zoopsychologist, went on to say:
Parrots only imitate the human voice

What is strange about these parrots - whoever is good at talking, not all of them are good at it - what is strange about them is that they do not speak while they are free in their forests. It sounds, sounds, and silences the ears with its screams, but it does not imitate the sounds of other birds or animals. It is necessary to be at home, and with human beings, to say what people say. Captivity first in the home, the company of a person under the roof of the house, then imitating his voice.

I said: It is human familiarity that teaches her to speak.

He said: Perhaps loneliness... the loneliness of captivity, taught by familiarity. That souls, and the souls of animals among them, are still in our minds a gorge of darkness. Souls have connections to each other. Loneliness breaks these ties. Souls refuse to be severed, as they extend the ends of these severed ties, in unity, to connect to any other soul, even if it is a human soul.

- Failed attempts at language

My friend went on to say:

One of those links is the sound link. The sound of every animal is an expression. The dog barks loudly. He wants to say something, to understand you or me. A cat growls when angry, and if it were a human it would curse. She asks for food and makes a soft voice that conveys the meaning of pleading and asking for forgiveness. She wants to say, but she can't. And so are all the sounds. Failed but meaningful attempts at language. It failed because animals did not have the speech apparatus that humans have: a hollow mouth with a tongue, behind it a throat connected to a nose, and behind all of them there is a chest that blows air. Muscles that move in cavities produce, according to the science of phonetics, speech: consonants and vowels. We were able to record the voices of parrots on tapes, showing that their mouths and throats have the ability to create consonants from letters, but they are unable to create vowels. Of course, the brain is behind speech to link sounds to meanings. The important thing is that parrots - those who speak well - do so because God has given them tools in their throats that are most closely shaped and prepared to make sounds.

I said: I thought some monkeys could speak.

He said: One type of monkey was able to pronounce two or three words with great effort. That orangutan.

- Man’s companionship with animals: mutual companionship

I said: I go back to the parrot and ask: What motivates it to speak when it is a happy eater and drinker?

My friend, the psychologist, said: Loneliness. I remember that most of the people who cling to animals, shelter them, accompany them, and befriend them, including cats, dogs, and about fifty other domesticated animals, are the lonely, feral ones, and the solitary women, among the human beings. A spinster or widow who lives alone, shelters a cat or a dog. An old woman, an old man. All of these people feel lonely by the silence and stillness of the house, so they seek movement to see it, and seek movement to hear it, thus creating the familiarity that exists between a human and an animal.

One of these is parrots. I read that a woman who was over eighty lived alone with her parrot, Yunus, her solitude, and his solitude, so when she died, she bequeathed her house to him and money for his livelihood until he died. The house was donated to the municipality by the municipality of the city of Montreal, Canada, as I remember. No one can demolish it to create a road until the parrot dies, and how long its life will be.

I said: You mentioned, my friend, the intimacy that exists between humans and animals.

He said: Yes, yes, common familiarity. Parrots are more talkative when their owner or companion is absent. During the absence of his friend, Yunus, the parrot, he missed his words. Speech is sound and sound is Enas.

My psychological friend went on to compare a parrot to a bird and a child to a human being. The child also speaks to himself, in a voice, in the absence of his mother, seeking comfort from his loneliness.

- In parrots: green, yellow, and red

Let us leave the talk of the psychologist friend and return to talking about the meanings that looking at parrots and contemplating them raises in humans, not all of which are clear.

Among these colors are: red, blue, and green
And the yellow ones, all of them next to each other, in a pleasant, comfortable harmony.

And all animals have nothing of the brightest colour.
And more hiccups than parrots.

I remember the same colors in animals as fish.

(These are two pairs of the same species, the mako species. They are large in size, long-tailed, and brightly colored. You can see from the closeness of the spouses an apparent meaning of marital loyalty, which is a characteristic of parrots. We cannot fail to mention that the mako species consists of about 15 genera. Its homeland is Brazil and Paraguay.)

I remember the same colors in coral animals.

But where are all the colors of parrots?! There appear to be two ambiguous meanings in the matter of color: a meaning related to the manufacture of these colors, in these objects in particular, and a meaning related to their goals.