{"id":742491,"date":"2022-12-05T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742491"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:00:05","slug":"what-does-polly-say-community-science-data-reveal-species-differences-in-vocal-learning-by-parrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742491","title":{"rendered":"What does Polly say? Community science data reveal species differences in vocal learning by parrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most animals don&#8217;t learn their vocalizations, everyone knows that parrots do\u2014they are excellent mimics of human speech. But how large is the vocabulary of different parrot species? Do males &#8220;talk&#8221; more than females? Does a parrot&#8217;s vocabulary expand with age? A new study publishing Dec. 5 in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, titled &#8220;A survey of vocal mimicry in companion parrots,&#8221; adds to what we know about animal vocal learning by providing the largestcomparative analysis to date of parrot vocal repertoires.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-polly-community-science-reveal-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What does Polly say? Community science data reveal species differences in vocal learning by parrots<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most animals don&#8217;t learn their vocalizations, everyone knows that parrots do\u2014they are excellent mimics of human speech. But how large is the vocabulary of different parrot species? Do males&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}