I've met parakeets with a better vocab than Shrub - and with charisma too. Hard for many bipeds to realize how much personality can cram into a tiny feathered critter.

(And as for that 'soul' thing - what's good for the fervid biped imagination is just as fine for the gander. Or smaller.)

But see - the fine bird doesn't have to go through all that atonement, manic-groveling BS which bipeds love to inflict on selves.. if that's any consolation.



Condolences.