minus-squaremikkL@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL that in 1800 Alexander von Humboldt found a pet parrot in Amazonia that was the last "speaker" of an extinct language. He documented what it said, and his notes are the only trace of this languagelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoGreat read! Thank you for sharing. It’s incredible that they trained two parrots to recall some of the 40 words almost 200 years later. 🧠💥 linkfedilink
Great read! Thank you for sharing. It’s incredible that they trained two parrots to recall some of the 40 words almost 200 years later. 🧠💥