Why do parrots talk but not chimpanzees?

Some birds can make the sounds, but they don't know what they're saying. They have the hardware and some of the software. Some great apes have the software, but not the hardware. read more

Pretty bird!" encouraging the bird to talk. Any bird can learn words when they see how the human moves his/her mouth, the bird then makes the connection that if it makes a sound when it moves its mouth like this is resembles the sounds coming from the human. This is because birds (not just domestic birds) love to, and are very good at mimicing noises that they hear. read more

To a bird (like parrots), speech is just another sound to mimic. The real question is whether the bird understands the meaning of the sounds he is making. To a chimpanzee, speech is a way to communicate. read more