Foul-Mouthed Parrots to Return to Park, Possibly Reformed (Now for a laugh)
Five birds who moved to an English park had unprintable vocabularies, which they deployed on amused guests. Keepers said the parrots also learned to laugh at one another
.LONDON — When Steve Nichols, the chief executive of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, heard employees loudly swearing in the next room, he went over to tell them off.
But there were no employees in the next room. Just the birds.
He then realized that five parrots who moved to the park in the same week shared an unfortunate trait: They all had filthy, filthy mouths.
With more colorful language than plumage, the African grey parrots — Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson — used different curse words in different British accents, but they were all unprintably coarse. At one point, a group of women walking past the aviary thought the lewd comments shouted at them were from a hidden staff member, Mr. Nichols said.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/swearing-parrots-lincolnshire.html
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