One of the many pleasures of owning a parrot is teaching the parrot tricks. As any parrot owner or admirer knows, a parrot is highly intelligent, thinks somewhat like a child, and is capable of a cause-and-effect manner. One of the great joys in teaching a parrot tricks is that it learns, and once you have taught the parrot a few tricks, you can continue, increasing his abilities to speak, mimic, and perform.