Although the word repetition skills observed in some birds (most famously parrots) should not be mistaken for linguistic communication, this tendency has nonetheless influenced fictional portrayals of animal communication; sentient talking parrots and similar birds are common in children's fiction, such as the talking, loud-mouth parrot Iago of Disney's Aladdin. Bruce Thomas Boehner's book Parrot Culture: Our 2,500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird explores this issue thoroughly.