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[Ravnos]

My macaw will say "I'm hungry." when his bowl is empty. Whether it is just association or not, who knows. Of course, everything even humans do is trained response from the day we're born. We may be able to act 'on the fly' but if you were raised in a confined environment like birds are, your choices and mental process for making those choices would be limited as well. Of course, if parrots were found to be capable of making educated decisions - what would that do for the pet trade on them?

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