A story from the amazing world of animals:
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.
The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
950 words? He could write for the Sun (provided three of those words were “Asylum”, “Seekers” and “Out”). The sense of humour part might be a problem.
N’kisi’s remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy…
OK, stop. Telepathy? I’m willing to believe a lot of things, but this last claim seems slightly dubious. Unless we are supposed to believe that this parrot has evolved extra abilities beyond those of normal birds — some sort of X-Parrot.
Actually, there’s already been an X-Parrot — he was in that Monty Python sketch.