One extensively trained African grey parrot named Alex became the first non-human animal to pose an existential question when he asked what color he was.

一只名叫亚历克斯的非洲灰鹦鹉经过大量训练后，问出 “我是什么颜色？” 的问题时，成为第一个提出存在性问题的非人类动物。

Expert imitators like the African Grey parrot have much larger shell regions and smaller cores than copycats who are less skilled like budgies and peach face lovebirds.

像非洲灰鹦鹉这样的专业模仿者比虎皮鹦鹉和桃脸爱情鸟等技能较低的模仿者拥有更大的外壳区域和更小的核心。

Over the past several years, the African grey parrots have seen a rise in popularity as pets, largely due to studies that have given us greater insight into the extreme intelligence of these birds.

在过去的几年里，非洲灰鹦鹉作为宠物越来越受欢迎，这主要是因为研究让我们对这些鸟类的极端智慧有了更深入的了解。

Alex, an African grey parrot, combined words to make up new ones: he called an apple a " bannery" , for example, a mixture of banana and cherry (see " The talkative parrot" ).

亚历克斯是一只非洲灰鹦鹉，他把单词组合起来组成了新单词：他把苹果称为“bannery”，例如香蕉和樱桃的混合物（参见“爱说话的鹦鹉”）。

There are even rumors of people who have been fooled into thinking that they were talking to a family member in another room, only to find that it was their pet African grey mimicking another person's voice.

甚至有传言说，有人被骗了，以为他们是在另一个房间里和家人说话，结果却发现是他们的宠物非洲灰猫在模仿另一个人的声音。