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This article is about a parrot. For the traditional artifacts from the Congo Basin, see Nkisi.

N'kisi is a young African grey parrot renowned for his impressive English usage skills and other abilities.

According to news reports and websites, as of January 2004, N'kisi had a vocabulary of about 950 words and used them in context, frequently in complete sentences, has approximated verb forms to maintain the correct tense (such as saying flied as the past tense of fly), and does not depend on learned phrases to communicate his thoughts.

According to these sources, N'kisi is capable of understanding photograpic images; upon meeting Jane Goodall in person and seeing a photo of her, asked "Got a chimp?"; and demonstrates what appears to be a sense of humor.

[edit] External links

• Parrot's oratory stuns scientists (BBC News)
• AVIAN CONTEXTUAL LANGUAGE USE IN INTERSPECIES SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
• Nkisi project, Interspecies Telepathy Experiments (with link to peer-reviewed journal)