Zoo parrots separated for telling everybody to fuck off

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/sep/29/fowl-epithets-swearing-parrots-separated-after-telling-folk-where-to-go

"Five foul-mouthed parrots have been separated after learning to swear at a Lincolnshire zoo.

The parrots – named Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson – joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s colony of 200 grey parrots in August. But soon after, they started encouraging each other to swear.

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No one had complained about the parrots, Nichols said, but they were separated for the sake of young visitors and in the hopes that they would pick up natural calls from the other African greys.

“People have come to us but they think it’s highly amusing, we haven’t had one complaint,” he said. “When a parrot tells you to fuck off, it amuses people very highly. It’s brought a big smile to a really hard year.”

The park is also home to parrot Chico, who made headlines in September after learning to sing a range of pop songs, including Beyoncé’s If I Were a Boy."

[dweller]

1. i hope they were watching the debates

and somebody films it ...

✌🏼

[hlthe2b]

2. If they curse at Trump, I'll adopt them all. They can talk to their heart content...

[consider_this]

3. you all beat me to it.

Station them at the white house, but only where the resident can hear them, but not have anything to do with them. Spare the creatures anything like the pain we just endured.

[Major Nikon]

4. When I was a kid the local Long John Silver had a parrot

Didn't last long when its vocabulary started expanding.