The parrot.

Like a parrot.

The parrot is dead.

Irene Pepperberg, Alex the parrot,

What are you, a parrot?

Mr Cotton's parrot, same question.

A parrot can imitate human speech.

We should have another parrot farm.

This street . Are you a parrot?

A parrot can mimic a person's voice.

She keeps a parrot as a pet.

She keeps a parrot as a pet.

It's a burin of a parrot beak.

Jack keeps a cat and a parrot at home.

Jack keeps a cat and a parrot at home.

Let's get what we need to keep a parrot.

like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.

The Carolina parakeet was a parrot that lit up backyards everywhere.

She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.

Does it actually speak our language or does it just parrot what it's heard?

Irene Pepperberg holds a round tray in front of a parrot she has named Alex.

But Pepperberg says working with the parrot has already changed the way of looking at animals.

All she could do was parrot a garbled abbreviation in a language she didn't even understand.

Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him.

They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger.

A handy thing to have, because language is infinite, and you can't just parrot back the sentences that you've heard.

That was actually caused by a school of parrot fish that had started eating it, though luckily, they lost interest before killing it.

Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Northwestern University, is discovering that a parrot can not only mimic people but also learn the meaning of words.

It turns out that, not only is the Galvao parrot very attractive, useful for headdresses, it evidently has certain hallucinogenic properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse.

All I've got at home is one pony and two dogs and four cats and six bunny rabbits and two parakeets and three canaries and a green parrot and a turtle and a silly old hamster.

And so they would be shopping, and they might be more likely to buy some lard, or millet for their parrot, or, you know, a hook, or hook protector for nighttime, all of these things we sell.

Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning gray hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.

I came directly here from the deep, deep tropical rainforest in Ecuador, where I was out you could only get there by a plane with indigenous people with paint on their faces and parrot feathers on their headdresses, where these people are fighting to try and keep the oil companies, and keep the roads, out of their forests.