Bird Brains

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3430481.stm

What starts out as a nice little story about a parrot with a 900 word vocabulary suddenly swerves off into the whacky with this line:

"N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine."

Really? Telepathy, huh? Couldn't you have just left well enough alone by writing a nice article about a bird that has a larger vocabulary and better sense of context than most American 6th graders?

You had to mention telepathy...