Fate joined forces with five African gray parrots. They were all once household pets, and each came from a different family.
They were all collected at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park. And as they say…birds of a feather…turn out they're all pretty foul-mouthed – or is it a bird's mouth?
Some say that these birds need to wash their beaks with soap.
Now, the zoo has come up with a new plan to prevent the foul-mouthed parrots – now eight years old – from cursing, telling zoo visitors to “stay away.”
The New York Post reported:
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park has revealed they are taking eight happy African gray parrots – including five that went viral in 2020 – and pairing them with 92 “non-swearing” birds to improve their language.
“I hope, above the general noise of the swarm, the expletives will be drowned out,” said Steve Nicholls, the park's chief executive. [the press].
“When we came to pick them up, the language coming out of their carrying crates was amazing, really bad. It wasn't normal expletives, it was proper expletives.
But the people in charge of the birds are aware of a serious potential danger: if things go wrong, Lincolnshire Wildlife Park could end up with a hundred ferocious parrots!
African gray parrots are known for their acute cognitive abilities (equivalent to a 5-year-old human) and remarkable speech imitation skills.
“Six of them have men's voices, two of them have women's voices, and when they all swear it sounds really bad,” Nichols said.
The five birds were isolated together due to strict lockdown measures.
They somehow taught each other “a wide range of obscenities and obscenities.”
“People have come to us but they think it's too much fun, and we haven't had a single complaint,” Nicholls told The Guardian in 2020. “When a parrot tells you to go away, it amuses people greatly.” You brought a big smile to a really difficult year.
Now, those eight birds are still cursing like sailors, and they will have to endure the latest experiment to try and stop the cursing completely.
Otherwise, there would be 100 crazy parrots cursing at once.
