Congrats IMR, sorry I missed this post earllier, my brain fog took over... He is a chipper looking little guy. Very colorful too, I remember when I was very young, my parents had a parakeet, I do not remember the bird's name but they had this old 78 record made by the Hartz pet company that was to "teach the parakeet" to sing. It had nothing but other parakeets on it that were singing cheerful little sounding songs, I do not remember much about that bird, but he or she did sing, so they are intelligent , every animal has their own kind of intelligence and we can't judge what intelligence is by using our standards, because it is only our standards.
I do think that Gorillas are amazing and Koko the famous gorilla was taught to use sign language, I remember one of the most heart wrenching sites I ever saw an animal express, was when Koko's little orange kitten, ( She loves kittens.
) was ran over by a vehicle on a road outside her enclosure, the trailer she lived in . When she was told that her kitten was "gone" dead", she was very sad and used sign language to convey how upset she was. She looked just like a mother that had lost her own biological baby. That is not "learned" behaivor, but true emotions. Koko is such a beautiful Gorilla and we are learning so much by having her around,
( I think the little kittens name was All Ball, because he was a little Manx kitten with no tail, and this is what Koko called him , All Ball cause he was all round when she held him like a ball.)
If you get your little guy to sing and or talk, I would love to see and hear him sing in a video. ( Of course I will play it for my cats too, they enjoy good bird singing videos.............perks them right up! LOL
RWM
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