Did A Yellow-Crowned Amazon Save a Lost Language?

They’re listening to everything you say

At pushing 50, Cookie the Yellow-crowned Amazon parrot has forgotten all his Spanish but his English game is still strong / photo by the author Amethyst Qu

For Pride Month, I was listening to an audiobook biography of the life of explorer and prolific writer/naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, and I came across a mention of his talking pet parrot of 30 years. As a parrot owner myself, I was left wanting to know more.