what’s so great about
a parrot who understands
the concept of zero?
i know an ant who understands
the concept of
three hundred million and ten.
she is something of a savant—
her abdominal gyrus is
particularly large
and we suspect that is where
she keeps her numbers.
i also once knew an African Grey
parrot named George
he was terrible at counting,
but well-practiced at
snatching ants up and eating them
when no one was looking.
when we asked him why he
practiced such a cruel art
he said, “because there’s
lots of you around,”
thereby illustrating the
limited utility of
a precise numerical
concept in nature
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