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I
read an anecdote from someone whose African Grey didn’t particularly
get along with her Amazon parrot, Paco. One night she was preparing
cornish hens for dinner, while the grey hung out with her in the
kitchen. He got a closer look at one of the hens, looked his mama dead
in the eyes and asked, “Paco?” Then he laughed.
African
Grey Parrots are one of the smartest birds, and seems they can be known
to play “jokes” or “pranks” on their owners or any visitors.
I
was visiting a friend of the family one time and I was just casually
watching tv when I thought I heard the water running. I go into the
kitchen but everything’s fine. the parrot looks at me and says “gotcha”.
Parrots are awesome.
I have an African Grey named Loki and he lives up to his name.
He
likes to scream and mimic the sounds of things falling off the shelf
and when we run into the room to see what’s happening he says “The cat
did it! Bad Sammy!” and laughs.
Whenever he gets mad at me he
flies away from me, but since he can’t fly very well, he always crash
lands. And the first thing he says when I go to pick him up, without
fail, is always “You need to vacuum,” in a very bitter grumble.
Loki
likes to call our cat to him. He’ll sit there for minutes saying “here
kitty kitty kitty.” The cat will come, walk up to the bird, get bit and
then Loki will laugh as the cat screams and runs away. This goes on for
hours.
If it’s late at night and he’s tired, but I’m still up
with the lights on, he’ll say “Loki go night night.” It’s starts of in a
normal tone and then gets louder and louder until he’s screaming “LOKI
GO NIGHT NIGHT!”
If he sees my dad fall asleep, he screams like a
little girl to scare my dad awake. And then laughs. He’s kind of
perfected that evil laugh.
But the best one was when I brought
home the man who has since become my ex for the first time, Loki looked
him dead in the eyes and said “I’m going to bite you.” My parrot was the
first one to see what a bad person my ex. He was smarter than us all.
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