Blue Parrot

Blue Parrot
oil painting

canvas size: 12 x 24
artist: Rogelio Babanto

Parrots [their name believed to derive somehow from the French proper name Perrot, a diminutive of Pierre] reproduce human sounds with great accuracy and have been known to have "vocabularies" of over 100 words, but they of course speak by imitation, without understanding.

Parrots have been called Pollys since the early 17th century, when Ben Jonson first recorded the word Myna birds [from the Hindi maina] mimic human speech more precisely than parrots but have smaller vocabularies.

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