If for you it is still a mystery why parrots speak, at Ecoosphere we give you the answer to this unknown that floats through civilization.
Human beings have a larynx, the junction between the trachea and the esophagus. It is there that the voice is reproduced. This membrane resembles a drum that oozes with air from the lungs. Parrots, for their part, have a syrinx, a membrane that allows them, with the help of two cameras, to make two sounds simultaneously. The parrot’s secret lies in the fact that, in addition to this quality, it has a long tongue that allows it to reproduce the sounds or voices it hears on a daily basis; Another uniqueness of the parrot is that it can play two sounds at the same time. Even though the rest of the birds have this syrinx, it is impossible for them to “speak” due to the short length of their tongue.
Alex, an African gray parrot, gives us a sample of this ability to emit two sounds at the same time, which we humans translate as «speech»:
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