Zoo expels 5 parrots for insulting visitors with obscene words
A parrot sanctuary in England has been forced to impose a collective punishment of five African gray parrots, who have successfully learned many of the profanity and curse words they use on visitors.
The birds, who lived at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre, kept encouraging each other to swear in public in front of visitors and it became so bad that the zoo was forced to remove them from the public eye!
According to AP News, the zoo's chief executive, Steve Nichols, said, "We're quite used to the parrots doing, but we haven't had five (doing the same thing) at the same time."
Nichols revealed to BBC News that the guests' reactions to the swearing parrots actually encourage their behaviour.
"They swear to get an answer or a reaction, which is what they get when people laugh or act shocked," he said.
According to Rainforest Site, the birds in question, whose names are Bailey, Eric, Tyson, Jed and Elsie, were dispersed into two different colonies, far from the general 'adhan'.
This is in the hope that the birds will pick up a proper vocabulary with many other parrots, but there is little chance that it will backfire. "That is, the naughty parrots would teach the larger group insults, instead."
"I hope they learn different words inside the colonies - but if they teach others a bad language and I end up with 250 cursing birds, I don't know what to do," Nichols said, according to BBC News.
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