Is this parrot psychic? Try a pollygraph test.
Aimée Morgana noticed that her language-using African Grey parrot, N'kisi, often seemed to respond to her thoughts and intentions in a seemingly telepathic manner. We set up a series of trials to test whether this apparent telepathic ability would be expressed in formal testing.
He scored 23 hits: the mean number of hits expected by chance was 12, with a standard deviation of 3.
Listen to N'kisi here. It is difficult to discern which is the human and which is the smart one.
[Parrot's oratory stuns scientists (January 2004)]
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