Why a Talking Parrot? This is the Answer

Have you ever wondered why parrots can imitate human speech well? Well, want to know, parrots can talk like human beings because of parrot uses its tongue to produce a sound like the vowel letters, as well as us, humans.

In humans, the sound generated from the larynx (larynx) and can be changed according to the movement of the tongue in the mouth. Things like this that help us to gucapkan vowels and consonants even though the letter was complicated.

Until now, not a few researchers believe, parrots as well as the other birds, produce and varying his voice using larynx and syrinx without using his tongue at all. Apparently, parrots move the tongue forward and backward when talking.

This is then tickled Gabriel Beckers and colleagues from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, interested to observe whether this movement was instrumental in the smart parrots imitate human speech.

The researchers tried to do research on a number of parrots. Syrinx of birds and then replaced a very small electronic speaker. When the amplifier is play a sound, a pengaitkata Beckers, greater than the difference between the letter 'a' and 'o' the man said.

So, according to Beckers, parrots ability to play his tongue pronounce vowel letters may be driven talent birds become imitators. Hence, the often heard phrase, people who like to imitate it as like "parroting" the bird to move the tongue. The researchers found, the movement of the tongue is less than one millimeter alone will cause a big difference in sound quality related vocal parrots issued.