African Grey blabs

[Paul Boote]

Lovely birds. Used to see flocks of them over the Congo River in central Africa. Nice story here -

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4619764.stm

[Alan Stubbs]

The front page of today's Times as well.

 

I wonder if it could impersonate coitus interruptus! if so the parrot could say that he participated in aural sex.

Edited January 17, 2006 by Alan Stubbs

[Vagabond]

A burglar broke into a house via a window, and once inside was startled by a raucous voice -

 

"Jesus is watching you" it said.

 

He froze

 

"Jesus is watching you" said the voice again

 

Summoning his courage, Bill Sykes switched on his pencil torch - in the beam of the torch sat a grey parrot in a cage.

 

"Garn - a bleedin' parrot - what sort of nerks call their parrot 'Jesus' ?" he scoffed.

 

"Jesus is not MY name - I'm called Nebuchadnezzar" said the parrot.

 

"Jesus is our rottweiler"

[*Ant*]

Thank god sheep can't talk.

[stan4massey]

I`ve got the good (or mis) fortune to own an african grey, had him five years now and all I can say is that you have to watch what you say, they will copy or mimic anything to perfection from drinking tea and slurping, to dogs barking, to swear words, (by her indoors of course) to our squeaky hoover and herself saying sh#t as she trips over the cord.

[ayjay]

Thank god sheep can't talk.

 

 

Makes you wonder if God was Welsh.

 

 

(with the usual caveat that there may not actually be a god)

[Paul Boote]

I`ve got the good (or mis) fortune to own an african grey, had him five years now and all I can say is that you have to watch what you say, they will copy or mimic anything to perfection from drinking tea and slurping, to dogs barking, to swear words, (by her indoors of course) to our squeaky hoover and herself saying sh#t as she trips over the cord.

 

I sympathize. On the few occasions I shared a lunch or dinner with an American Evangelical Christian 'Pastor' missionary and his family whom I'd met in the Congo during some travels in the early 1990s, I wondered why, at the start of meal times, my host would always cover his African Grey's cage with a cloth.

 

"Why, XXXX?" I asked.

 

"Well, he joins in our Grace, then he 'tut's..."

 

Clever bird.

Edited January 17, 2006 by Paul Boote

[DJMCJERICO]

I mate of mine from a few years back had one (his dad had a bit of money) and he used to imitate the balls on the pool table clacking togther, the balls falling down the pots and call out "Shot" now and again, and if you laughted at him he would laugh back at ya, Although it hated people going near him!

 

I had a myna bird a few years ago and the only word he ever learnt was "what", he also used to imitate the phone, the pidgeons and bloody seagulls, the grief didn't last very long after he passed