Parakeets talk using brain areas similar to ours

Parakeets talk using brain areas similar to ours

Parrots are natural chatterboxes. Small parrots known both as parakeets and as budgerigars make this chatter in ways remarkably similar to the way we do it. Researchers shared the new finding March 19 in Nature.  Parakeets have special brain areas for making language. These language centers work much as those in humans do. So far, these parrots are the only animals other than people known to have brains that work in this way, says Michael Long i…