Talking and squawking | Einstein the parrot and Stephanie White

http://www.ted.com This whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for Einstein's moment with Al Gore. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.facebook.com/TED

Topics:

["Einstein the Parrot", "TED", "TEDTalks", "Stephanie White", "African grey parrot", "talking parrot", "talking bird", "animal training", "animal language", "animal cognition", "bioacoustics", "Ethology", "singing bird", "human speech", "mimic", "mimic humans", "mimicry", "mimic human speech", "imitation", "amazing animals", "Animals", "Education", "Entertainment", "cognitive ability", "environment", "animal rights", "English", "Einstein", "vocabulary", "communicate", "communication", "animal communication", "communicate with humans", "animal protection"]

Duration

Duration minutes: 5

Duration seconds: 49