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        "description": "<p>November 13, 2012\u2014While studying green-rumped parrotlets in Venezuela, National Geographic explorer Karl Berg discovered an incredibly rare behavior\u2014the adults appear to \"name\" their young.</p>", 
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        "title": "Do Parrots Name Their Babies?", 
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        "transcript": "<p>We know parrots can talk, but do they give names to their children?</p><p>I'm Lucie McNeil and this is National Geographic On Assignment--- your link to thousands of our Nat Geo Explorers around the globe.</p><p>Today, we're off to the wilds of Venezuela.</p><p>National Geographic's Karl Berg and his team spent months recording the sounds of green-rumped parrotlets.</p><p>The team was able to identify slight variations in the calls that parent birds used to communicate with different offspring.</p><p>The baby birds appear to recognize and learn the individual calls used specifically for them.</p><p>If the fledglings were learning their contact calls directly from their parents, then this would be the first example of a non-human species teaching acoustical communication.</p><p>That's National Geographic On Assignment---your link to our Explorers.</p>", 
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