Humans have created an entire industry around their newborns including producing book after book of suggested baby names. And apparently every one of these books spells the name Britney/Brittnie/Brittany/Brittnee a different way.
Scientists have discovered that parrots also apply names to each of their individual chicks, all without the aid of the publishing industry.
Thanks to video cameras pointed at the nests of green-rumped parrots in Venezuela, researchers from Cornell University discovered that parent parrots vocalize a specific chirp at each chick beginning soon after birth. Those specific name chirps are applied to that individual throughout its life. Like a human teen going from Edward to Ed, the chirp may be altered a bit later in the bird’s lifespan. The scientists believe the names allow the social birds to keep up with who is who within their flock.
Scientists have yet to study if there’s a correlation between human teens binge drinking and parrots getting drunk and falling from the sky.
None of this explains the NBA’s wild man Ron Artest changing his name to Metta World Peace.