
Parrot Babies Babble Just like Us
60-Second Science
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A new study shows that baby parrots also babble before they leave the nest. When baby humans are babbling, they're stringing a bunch of sounds together in sort of unintelligible ways. Karl Berg is an associate professor of biology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He says parrot babble is really very similar. gibberish is a good descriptor.
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