All Parrots Speak

Parrots are amusing, decorative, long-lived, and faithfulin their affections, but the quality which distinguishesthem from most of God’s other inventions is their ability toimitate the sounds of human speech. A parrot that cannot talkor sing is, we feel, an incomplete parrot. For some reason itfascinates us to see a small, feather-covered creature with a ludicrous,senile face speaking a human language—so much,indeed, that the more simple-minded of us tend to take seriouslythe idea suggested by our subconscious: that a parrotreally is a person (in disguise, of course), but capable ofhuman thought and feeling.https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/s...