back in the fifties they had this world championsip of talking birds and they assembled all the parrots and beals a special type from borneo and boy do they speak well but the championship back then was won by a parakeet a little parakeet and the parakeet would say birds are smart but they cannot speak and that really made him a winner boy was that bird good you can still buy a record that repeats his sentence birds are smart but they can not speak and you can teach your own bird maybe dogs will talk one day