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Parakeet Evolutionary Theory
October 19,2003
by Ryan B. Reynolds
Parrot Intelligence Researcher & Communicator
Once we accept the fact that parakeets are talking in context, the biggest question on most peoples mind is whether or not parakeets have always spoke in context and why we have not realized it before. My studies have shown that most likely they have been using some form of conversational language for a long time now. However, the recent advances in technology have acted as a catalyst and rapidly advanced their abilities to communicate with humans.
Because they are sociable animals they need to communicate and be understood. They are very similar to a child and can bond very well with their parent guardian. Once they do form this special bond, many begin the process of communication by reproducing our vocalizations and mimicking what we say. As I have mentioned many times on my site, they are very quick thinkers due to their accelerated life expectancy. They can have several thoughts during the same amount of time we have one. To communicate with us they have to learn how to slow down their thinking process. Retrospectively, we as humans are not able to comprehend their attempts at speaking our language unless we spend a considerable amount of time analyzing what they say and learning their accent. We also have difficulty keeping up with the speed in which they talk.
Until recently, the technology was not that good for the average budgie guardian to record their parakeet and analyze the recording. Sure most of us had standard tape recorders, but to properly analyze a parakeet speaking in converstational language, you have to break it down second by second. Doing this the old way would take a considerable amount of time because you would have to rewind and play back a certain section over and over again until you could pick it up. A 60 second recording where a budgie might say 20 sentences in perfect context would take several hours to analyze.
Recent advances in audio software allow us to digitally record them fairly easily. Once you learn the program you are working with, the recording can then be amplified, filtered, and broken down in to very short sections making rewinding instant.Small sections can be easily selected, and replayed at will. Therefore a recording that would have taken several hours previously, can now be done in less than an hour the new way. Also my techniques of putting captions with the recordings allows a person a hear and see experience, enabling them to learn how to understand them much quicker.
Parakeet Evolutionary Theory
PET comes in when a parakeet realizes that humans are trying to understand them. They are master communicators who learn our language very quickly. Many understand our language long before they start to practice pronouncing the words. They can learn our language in less than one month and if they commit to it, they will talk quite extensively after three months, using words they have never used before and putting them in a perfect context. During this exchange they talk about extreme thoughts emotions and feeling they are experiencing. Any creature that tries to communicate with us and cannot get through, will eventually give up after time. However, once a budgie realizes that it can communicate, it will try extremely hard through the recording process to continue. It has a strong desire to communicate with the flock it has bonded with which is people. During this process the budgie understanding that the only way he is going to communicate with us is by using our technology. The more they communicate this way the better they get, until sooner or later they are talking at a level equal to or greater than humans. However, it is still human’s inability to understand them that prevents total communication from normally occurring.
Through my studies I have also identified that another process takes place. They understand when they are communicating at long distances over the internet as well. They will often think about something they want to communicate and save it up for when they can be recorded. They listen to and understand other budgie recordings who are communicating through the internet and learn from each other. Part of their communication process is humor. Like people they have found that humor encourages people to bond with them and to listen to them more. Perhaps this is something that they have adapted to in the wild but all of the budgies that I have analyzed are very talented in the homour category. An interesting book that supports this is “Grooming, Gossip and he Evolution of Language” by Robin Dunbar.
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