The aforementioned Professor Irene Pepperberg, trainer of Alex
as well as other an African Grey parrot by the name of “Griffin,”
proves this. It was long believed that playing with objects and
speaking were behaviors found only in humans. But Pepperberg's
observations disprove this:
Human children start combining their labels at about 22
months… So, they start not just identifying”cookie” and
“milk,” but will say “want milk” or “want more cookie.”
And they also tend to develop this combinatorial behaviour at
the same time as they start doing physical combinations of their
toys. So, they will start stacking cups in serried sizes, and
things like that.
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Parrots’ ability to make connections between events and
sounds was the subject of Pepperberg’s speech at a meeting at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science:
The simultaneous emergence of both vocal and physical com-
binatorial behaviours was always thought to be a purely pri-
mate trait, derived from primate brain area. The fact that we are
finding this in animals so far removed from primates is excit-
ing.
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Again, a characteristic that evolutionists assert is unique to pri-
mates also found in parrots—which appear in an entirely different
branch of the imaginary evolutionary tree—constitutes a major evo-
lutionary impasse. That parrots and certain other birds have such a
complex brain capacity invalidates the evolutionists’ entire scenario.
Therefore, their assertion that a small brain capacity develops into a
large one is not applicable, which also invalidates the claim that pri-
mates are the ancestors of humans.
Furthermore, nature provides many more examples of “lesser”
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