dr. doolittle eat your heart out
by John at 1/27/2004 03:08:00 PM
Talking animals, like Alex or Washoe, are old news. We get it already - non-human animals can communicate using symbolic and verbal languages.
But, new on the scene is an African Grey parrot named N'kisi that speaks in complete sentences and is psychic! The redoubtable BBC has the story.
The BCC downplays the birds psychic powers: "In an experiment, the bird and his owner were put in separate rooms and filmed as the artist opened random envelopes containing picture cards. Analysis showed the parrot had used appropriate keywords three times more often than would be likely by chance."
The researchers are more forthcoming: "N'kisi appears to telepathically 'surf' the leading edge of Aimee's consciousness, responding to the spontaneous moment of discovery rather than to any consciously projected thoughts" and "As this study was strictly controlled against cues from any normal sensory means, and chance coincidence has been ruled out, these experiments provide compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy."
Update: all the bad links are fixed (I hope).
But, new on the scene is an African Grey parrot named N'kisi that speaks in complete sentences and is psychic! The redoubtable BBC has the story.
The BCC downplays the birds psychic powers: "In an experiment, the bird and his owner were put in separate rooms and filmed as the artist opened random envelopes containing picture cards. Analysis showed the parrot had used appropriate keywords three times more often than would be likely by chance."
The researchers are more forthcoming: "N'kisi appears to telepathically 'surf' the leading edge of Aimee's consciousness, responding to the spontaneous moment of discovery rather than to any consciously projected thoughts" and "As this study was strictly controlled against cues from any normal sensory means, and chance coincidence has been ruled out, these experiments provide compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy."
Update: all the bad links are fixed (I hope).
