Parrots are one of the many birds with showy plumage and a love of chirping.

Typical climbing birds that can eat hard-shelled fruits. With their bright plumage, they are often kept as pets. They are appreciated and loved for their beautiful plumage and their ability to learn human language skills.

Studies have found that most parrots are left-handed. The largest parrot is the purple and blue macaw, which can reach 100 cm in length, while the smallest parrot is the blue-crowned short-tailed parrot , which is only 12 cm in length.

Parrots are the only non-humans that have the potential to speak human language.

For several years, experts have believed that parrots cannot be governed by their brains to say meaningful words, and that the reason they are able to say a few simple words is that they are unconsciously imitating humans.

However, facts and research have proven that this is not the case and that parrots are capable of thinking.

The scientist Pepperberg once domesticated an African grey parrot, and after the death of the parrot, which was described as the world's most intelligent, Pepperberg published "Alex and Me". In the book, Pepperberg said Alex's intelligence is equivalent to that of a five-year-old child, it can identify objects, numbers, colors and shapes, distinguish between size, "same" and "different". It has mastered 150 words and will use them just right: for example, to say "sorry" for making a mistake. When he gets tired, he says, "I want to go back." When parting with his owner, he asks, "Will you come back tomorrow?" .

Alex can talk intermittently with people as if he were a two-year-old child, and he has even become a teacher of other parrots, disciplining his own kind: "You can do better than that!"

According to Pepperberg, "From a scientific point of view, Alex tells us that parrots' ability to think is much closer to that of humans than we have acknowledged."

Most scientists have long believed that the ability to think cognitively is unique to mammals such as primates. Pepperberg, however, believes that this ability is also evident in birds, despite the fact that their brains are only the size of walnuts.

In addition, parrots are intelligent, good at learning, and can perform many new and interesting shows after training, and are a rare bird "performance artist" in various circuses, parks and zoos, and are loved by the public.

They can learn a variety of skills such as: riding a bicycle, pulling a car, tumbling and so on. Parrots are closely related to the development of human civilization, and they are also the best companions and friends of people. During the long period of domestication, parrots have brought people a lot of joy and even helped them to cure diseases.

People love these beautiful parrots and can go to bird markets and zoos to see birds that have been domesticated and bred in captivity.

It is everyone's responsibility to protect them and not to buy wild parrots that are stolen and sold by bird dealers. It has been documented in newspapers that the survival rate from the time wild birds are captured, returned over long distances, enter the market, and are domesticated in captivity is 17:1.

If one day these beautiful birds disappear from the earth, this is the real sorrow of mankind.