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I hate birds! They have alien eyes & icky feets!

African Greys are the worst Phil. We were at the home of a newlywed couple. The husband had a grey that was amazing. This bird would imitate everything from the dishwasher to the refrigerator, to the front door bell. This bird took particular delight in watching people scramble for the telephone.

Now the strange thing about greys is the talent to mimic voices right down to inflection. Could you imagine a bird that sounded more like "Jims" new bride than his wife. Amazing when a bird starts to tell all..

"F you Jim, I should have never married you. You got such a tiny one,you worthless sack of ,,,and on and on........ Telephone ,ha, ha, ha.

I hope they lived happily ever after.

Parrots can be pretty spooky. Kind of like that feeling you get around clowns. They're supposed to be fun, but they just make you cry.

I worked in a home with a parrot that imitated the telephone ring perfect. I asked the owner why she never answers the phone and she laughed. My employee coughed and the bird IMMEDIATELY coughed exactly like him. I mean there was no pause between coughs. A perfect echo. How does a bird process a sound and imitate it perfectly immediately? Another time we were working in a kitchen where there was a number of bird cages. There was a few parakeets and a few cockatiels. I know parakeets talk but they are poor mimics. It's very hard to understand what they are "saying." I asked the owner if any of the birds talk. He told them he never heard any of them talk ever. My employee said something about the gas prices going up, something like "fuc*ing gas prices." A few minutes later I thought one of the parakeets said "fuc*ing gas." I asked my employee if he heard the bird say "fuc*ing gas" but he hadn't. A few minutes later my employee starts laughing his head off. "The parakeet said "fuc*ing gas." The owner wasn't home but I'm sure over the next few days he must have heard the bird say "fuc*ing gas." Hopefully he didn't realize it was us who taught him that phrase...

A guitar player I knew had a macaw who talked. I mean he had conversations with this bird. It had nothing to do with mimicry. Researchers have been able to train parrots to have vocabularies of hundreds of words. They are incredibly intelligent. I saw a documentary of a parrot who did all kinds of difficult exercises where it did critical thinking. Mind-boggling. I recently had to put to sleep a cat who talked. He clearly said the word "water" when he was thirsty and would greet me when I came home and said "how you doing." He tried to say many other words we never could understand but it wasn't the normal meow. He was actually talking.

My cousin had a Siamese that said "oh no" when she was going to puke. My cousin would say it back and then the cat then the cousin then the cat puked. It was like clock work. She also said my cousin's name, Kim. But without the hard k sound. She would walk around looking for her saying eeyum eeyum.

neanderpaul wrote:My cousin had a Siamese that said "oh no" when she was going to puke. My cousin would say it back and then the cat then the cousin then the cat puked. It was like clock work. She also said my cousin's name, Kim. But without the hard k sound. She would walk around looking for her saying eeyum eeyum.

Talking cats? no thanks, they're big enough assholes already...

neanderpaul wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBKVXyrHcw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

creepy...

I don't want no animals that are smarter than me, nor ones that can beat me up...so I'll just sit here with my tapeworm in a jar...

philbymon wrote:I don't want no animals that are smarter than me, nor ones that can beat me up...so I'll just sit here with my tapeworm in a jar...

Phil, you're a nut.

philbymon wrote:I don't want no animals that are smarter than me, nor ones that can beat me up...so I'll just sit here with my tapeworm in a jar...

Black57 wrote:

philbymon wrote:I don't want no animals that are smarter than me, nor ones that can beat me up...so I'll just sit here with my tapeworm in a jar...

Phil, you're a nut.

[Yes. A good one]

Bet they'd be good with some bacon wrapped around em on the grill.

This thread got me thinking about "Its A Beautiful Day" White Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0J77CRMeTA