Birds are brilliant brains. For decades science underestimated them. Analyzing their brain, they badly misjudged it. The massive forebrain and cortex they interpreted as stem ganglia, a brain structure and formation that may not allow more than a vegetative state of being. How wrong we have been. How wrong may we still be in our judgment of other beings. The paradigm of Darwin’s pyramid makes us blind and arrogant. Listen to Einstein’s talk. Einstein gives us all reasons to reconsider our position.
Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. At least, this is what we know about her, perhaps there is much more than that.