中考真题2025年山东省潍坊市阅读D篇-破纪录鹦鹉阿波罗
Parrots are known for being able to copy some of the sounds that people make. They might say “hello” or “how are you?”, if they often hear those words and phrases. Some are even able to learn the names for objects and identify (识别) them. And a 4-year-old parrot in the US has been recognized by Guinness World Records after correctly identifying 12 objects in 3 minutes.
That record-breaking bird is an African grey parrot named Apollo, who lives in Florida. He can identify things like books, bugs and socks. He has become popular on TikTok, where he has about 3 million followers. And a TikTok video of Apollo asking questions in 2023 has been watched 66 million times.
The parrot is owned by a couple named Dalton and Victoria Mason. They’re video creators and they’ve been working hard to train the bird. The owners say they teach Apollo as if he were a child of preschool age. “We teach him as much as we can,” the couple told Guinness, adding that they focus on (聚焦) things that Apollo is interested in.
Researchers have found that some African grey parrots are able to do better at some cognitive (认知的) tasks than 5-year-old children. And Apollo’s owners plan to keep teaching the bird to see how much he can learn and how many more records he can break.