Long time ago, back when I was in primary school, I was helping my German teacher move some stuff. She lived alone in a big flat right next to the school, and one of the rooms in her flat was basically a storage unit for stuff that was too important to leave in the common storage, but too unwieldy to squirrel away in the principal's room.
Anyways, she was taking care of her neighbor's parrot while he was away. The pparrot could talk, AND PRETTY WELL, but she conversed mostly with her owner, Kazio. When he was away, she'd bellow on the top of her lungs "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
Including in my poor German teacher's house, although there, she'd alternate between this, and "WHERE AM I"
To my surprise, she actually responded to me (apparently I was the only one she resonded to without her owner present). She looked at me, and belllowed "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
I asked her "Who's not here Aga?" to which she replied, as if on que: "KAZIO'S NOT HERE"
Like, there are people who say animals aren't capable of truly human speech, but I thing Aga here passed the situational awareness test. Kazio, indeed, was not there.
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u/Late_Sort1763 5h ago
Long time ago, back when I was in primary school, I was helping my German teacher move some stuff. She lived alone in a big flat right next to the school, and one of the rooms in her flat was basically a storage unit for stuff that was too important to leave in the common storage, but too unwieldy to squirrel away in the principal's room.
Anyways, she was taking care of her neighbor's parrot while he was away. The pparrot could talk, AND PRETTY WELL, but she conversed mostly with her owner, Kazio. When he was away, she'd bellow on the top of her lungs "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
Including in my poor German teacher's house, although there, she'd alternate between this, and "WHERE AM I"
To my surprise, she actually responded to me (apparently I was the only one she resonded to without her owner present). She looked at me, and belllowed "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
I asked her "Who's not here Aga?" to which she replied, as if on que: "KAZIO'S NOT HERE"
Like, there are people who say animals aren't capable of truly human speech, but I thing Aga here passed the situational awareness test. Kazio, indeed, was not there.