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Apollo (the one most are familiar with nowadays) is clearly capable of rationalizing concepts and how they interplay. Recognizing things that you've been provided information for is one thing, synthesizing those words together or in novel contexts is another.
>"pour water" when it's raining outside
>"it's a bug" "that's..." when seeing a lizard
>claiming that ceramics are glass when we would call them rock, and then insisting that it's glass after hitting his beak against it again, where the handlers actually agree because it makes more sense that he would perceive it as glass after that
>requesting things like "fresh water" and then getting a drink because... he just asked for some water because he was thirsty
>making himself more clear to strangers by enunciating his words more properly and speaking slower

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Can African Grey parrots truly understand language?I want to believe, even if some of them were scams, that they truly can.

Can African Grey parrots truly understand language?
I want to believe, even if some of them were scams, that they truly can.