Wild parrot chicks babble like human infants

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​ Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first steps on the path to learning language. In 2022, a study showed parrot chicks do the same.

Although the behavior has been seen in songbirds and two mammalian species, finding it in these birds is important, experts say, as they may provide the best nonhuman model for studying how we begin to learn language.

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