West and her team also found that the family-raised birds imitated the cadence of human speech whether they were forming recognizable words or not, just like a human baby starts to sound like it is making words before it actually is—the bird version of baby talk.
“West and her team also found that the family-raised birds imitated the cadence of human speech whether they were forming recognizable words or not, just like a human baby starts to sound like it is making words before it actually is—the bird version of baby talk.”
