Re: Bird Brains

["Larry Febo" <larryf@capital.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: Bird Brains


>    I just read an article in Discover about parrots who (African Grays)
who do
>not mimik speach, they understand what they are saying and are capable of
>thinking in the abstract.  They recognize that reflections in a mirror
imitate
>reality, for instance (a skill which humans do not have until age two).

EXCEPTION!......I witnessed a Robin a couple of years ago that was not only
trying to build a nest above my bathroom window, but was constantly bumping
into (apparantly attacking) the window pane. I assume it was seeing it`s own
reflection and mistaking it for a rival. (Unless...perhaps,...it needed to
use the bathroom????  8^)