@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish • 2 years agoTIL that in 1800 Alexander von Humboldt found a pet parrot in Amazonia that was the last "speaker" of an extinct language. He documented what it said, and his notes are the only trace of this languagewww.mentalfloss.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down13
arrow-up1262arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in 1800 Alexander von Humboldt found a pet parrot in Amazonia that was the last "speaker" of an extinct language. He documented what it said, and his notes are the only trace of this languagewww.mentalfloss.com@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-square@mikkLlinkEnglish1•2 years agoGreat read! Thank you for sharing. It’s incredible that they trained two parrots to recall some of the 40 words almost 200 years later. 🧠💥
Great read! Thank you for sharing. It’s incredible that they trained two parrots to recall some of the 40 words almost 200 years later. 🧠💥