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Parots - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Parots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The bill, with its elongated tip, is well adapted in most parrots for tearing up fruit and cracking nuts, and in a number of species the tongue is highly specialized for extracting honey by means of a brushlike tip. |
 | | The talent for imitating human speech is marked in the grey parrot Psittacus erithacus of Africa. |
 | | Alex, a 20-year-old African grey taking part in a long-term language project at the University of Arizona during 1996, can count up to six, name 100 objects and describe their colour, texture, and shape. |
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