Baby Parrot Babbling

Green-rumped parrotlet. Barloventomagico, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.

In a new study, researchers report that baby parrots in the wild quietly babble to themselves in their nests. The finding adds parrots to the small group of animals whose young go through a babbling stage similar to human infants.

Read the whole story at my Animal Minds blog: Baby Parrots Babble Like Human Infants.