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Show Slitting Parrot's Tongue "It Is a widespread superstition that to enable a parrot to talk (In Imitation Imita-tion of human speech) It Is necessary to split the tongue," says Alexander Wetmore In the Scientific Magazine. "This, however, has no foundation In fact, and when practiced only Inflicts an unnecessary cruelty. Birds make sounds In a little organ known ns the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea or windpipe, and as the tongue has little to do with the process, splitting It has no connection whatever with the ability to Imitate sounds." |