I would love to have an African Grey Parrot, if cicurmstances allowed.

(Also in the US, African Gray Parrot.)

However they do need a lot of looking after, in part as they are very bright and need lots of stimulation. Their intelligence has been said to be comparable to a child several years old.

http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/upload/2006/07/399px-Buberel_Gray_parrot.jpg

Read about African greys and some famous examples at the links below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

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Before Pepperberg's work with Alex, it was widely believed in the scientific community that birds were not intelligent and could only use words by mimicking, but Alex's accomplishments indicated that birds may be able to reason on a basic level and use words creatively. Pepperberg wrote that Alex's intelligence was on a par with that of dolphins and great apes. She also reported that Alex had the intelligence of a five-year-old human and had not even reached his full potential by the time he died. She said that the bird had the emotional level of a human two-year-old at the time of his death.

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http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2006/07/friday_grey_matters_an_intro_t.php

http://www.upatsix.com/faq/greyfaq.htm

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pepperberg03/pepperberg_index.html

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