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摘要

N'kisi the African grey parrot doesn't parrot. He talks. What's more, he has a sense of humour. Eleanor O'Hanlon on a phenomenon that could change the way we think about the relationship between humans and animals. Stories for BBC Wildlife have sentme on expeditions into the depths of the Russian taiga and across freezing expanses of Siberian tundra. This one went no further than Hampstead Heath, but it became a journey of a different kind, an exploration of the mind through some startling and unexpected dimensions of animal consciousness.