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Project N'kisi (pronounced ‘‘in-key-see’’) is a captive bred
eight or nine-year-old hand raised African Grey Parrot whose
owner, Aimée Morgana, thinks uses language. She doesn't think he
just sounds out words. She thinks he communicates with her in
language, which would in effect make N'kisi a rational parrot.
For example, N'kisi utters "pretty smell medicine" when he wants
to describe the aromatherapy oils that Aimée uses.* Furthermore,
Aimée says her parrot has a fine sense of humor and knows how to
laugh. Imagine having conversations with a humorous parrot.
Think of all the things you could talk and joke about, besides
aromatherapy. You could discuss the fame that would come to
anyone who had a parrot that can think and converse in
intelligent discourse, like pretty smell medicine and look at my
pretty naked body.* And when some nasty skeptic makes fun of
you, the two of you can joke about it. I'm afraid that this
story stretches the boundaries of