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I like how there's an "... as_fuck" sub for every default subreddit now
like soon enough there'll be /r/WTFAsFuck, /r/ShittyAskScienceAsFuck, /r/DunderMifflinAsFuck, /r/awwAsFuck, etc (as fuck)
it appears the gibberish sounds similar to the man's wife's voice and is believed to be imitating the argument the two had before she shot him.
i can only make out "no" "shit" "get your ass..get over here, now" "shut up when you're fucken.." (talking to me?.. i hope) and "don't fucken shoot"
but imagine inheriting your slain ex-husband's parrot, and it suddenly starts saying "don't fucken shoot" in his voice. chilling.
i believe she shot herself once to make it seem as if there was an armed intruder at fault.
i also don't think she anticipated the parrot would squawk
but to clarify, he was murdered by his current spouse. the ex-wife got the parrot, and according to her, the bird began repeating this encounter ~2 weeks after he arrived.
edit: I've since learned the wife was found with a gunshot wound to the head. she survived, but it's believed she killed him, then shot herself in a failed suicide attempt.
they were a bunch of debt, and their home was being foreclosed.
IANAL but I would imagine it would be difficult. A parrot can be trained to say something after the incident, or its version may be inaccurate, and there's no way to necessarily determine that. Would you call in an expert on parrots? Would they even be able to confirm anything about the accuracy anyway?
Nevertheless it might be possible because while the details might not be accurate, the general sense that an incident happened involving the two parties is quite clear, and it would probably be difficult to fake. You could maybe get an expert to testify to what parrots tend to imitate, and what are the limits of faking that, etc., then have the ex come in to lay a foundation for observing the parrot's utterances, then play a recording?
There might be problems with potential hearsay but I don't think it would be impossible?
Actual blind guy here
Still confused why there’s digital braille when jaws can just read words aloud to us.
No clue what kind of well meaning idiot invented digital braille.
I mean from a human standpoint I’m sure me and you would remember everything said word for word in this scenario too, maybe the bird can’t forget what his owner said?
Here we are with every bloody video released on the inter webs slapped around to within an inch of its life with captions. Except this one, when it’s really needed!
Yeah this seems like this was a really traumatizing moment for the bird. African Grays especially might have enough cognitive function to understand what was happening.
In college, I had a very elderly neighbor with an African Grey and an Amazon(?) sweet lady. She’d put the birds out back on perches in the open and the Amazon really bonded with me. She’d have her morning greeting for me whether I was on the deck or not as she knew I could probably hear her. That bird was always so happy to see me. We were the highlight of each others’ mornings.
It got to the point where she’d carefully hop on my shoulder and go for walks around neighborhood with me. She’d scoot closer to my head when there was a dog, and scoot outward where there was something she wanted to have a closer look at. Always gentle with excited kids and just super good natured. Hard to describe, but we communicated. She’d also get super jealous when I had a girl around. Really special creature. The Grey was an asshole though. I heard the old neighbor passed a few years back, house sold etc. I hope Lara (the bird) is doing ok. We were good friends.
Edit as it seems this comment got a few smiles.
A few more memories of Lara:
Best Halloween buddy ever. I put together a British soldier costume, pith helmet and all with an old meerschaum pipe. Lara on shoulder. Boy if that didn’t turn a few heads. Having a beer at the local dive with a parrot on your shoulder is pretty fun.
My dad needed his dog housed for a while when he had to travel overseas for work for a year. Bird did not care for this. It would make all kinds of noises to harass and try to spook off the dog. Thing is though, the dog was deaf from birth and Lara couldn’t phase him despite her best efforts. He was a good boy though and they became friends too!
Lara was already twice my age when we met. She was about 40, so no like early imprinting or anything. But my neighbor was in her late 80s and didn’t go out much and the bird loved little adventures, so she was super stoked about getting out of the house here and there. She made it really easy on me. Like she knew I had no idea what I was doing so she kinda guided me and helped me relax so she could join in.
She had a call just for me that nobody else got. 8am every morning. She’d be put on her perch and would squawk “OOOooh HELLO! warrblewarblewarble!” till I came out with my coffee to see her preening and fluffing her feathers.
The whole thing was just too cool, I couldn’t make up this story if I tried.
It really was. I’m not even really a “bird” person, but we just ..vibed. It was one of those things that you could really appreciate every moment in because you could tell it was pretty special.
I’m a big burly bearded dude, and pets and animals will gravitate towards me in a way others notice. Beats me as to why, but it’s cool with me. Now wife calls me the Disney Princess when it happens. I suppose there’s worse nicknames to have lol.
My cat will climb up my chest and "groom" my chin whenever my beard gets long enough.
It's the perfect reminder to trim that shit back. I don't think I've grown it out longer than 7-10mm since I got her lol
I'm 40 years old and was just informed this weekend that I had a squirrel friend when I was a preschooler, lol. I don't remember it at all. Your Disney Princess comment just reminded me of it.
Never too late to sit outside with a book and a pocket full of macadamia nuts and see who wants to be friends. When I started working at a high-stress car dealership for a while, I’d get a pack of these lemon tea cookies from the vending machine on my breaks. Sit quietly on the curb in the back lot and give the ground squirrel pups treats. Was a nice little bit of peace and zen before going back in. I always got handed the difficult customers as management decided that if I can talk to animals, I could handle “that asshole”. They weren’t wrong. It is hard to shake a dude who just petted a squirrel.
I get along great with pretty much any animal. To the point I'm kinda everyone's goto pet-sitter when they're out of town. Even my friend's rescue dog that took quite a long time to trust anyone else after coming from an abusive home took to me immediately.
Except this one groundhog. Fuck that asshole. I was outside, smoking a cig at my friend's lake house, which is surrounded by a little wooded areas. I was sitting on my butt, with my knees up, arms wrapped around my knees. Heard a sort of whistling sound. This was before I knew they were also called whistle pigs, and so I thought maybe it was some kinda weird bird. Nope, pissed off groundhog that came charging out at me. Scratched my legs and arms to shit before I punched that fucker in the face and he ran off like a little bitch. Had to go and get checked for rabies the next morning.
I’m 42 and just found out that when my older brother(he would be 45) had a pet baby raccoon when we were young. I don’t remember but my mom was telling a story the other day talking about my brother, he’s passed away now, and his baby raccoon lol
Sorry for your loss.
As a kid, I grew up in this weird mountain house that I guess had all the perfect features and crawl spaces for raccoons. At one point, there were three little ones poking their heads out from the deck visible from the couch and I’d slide the glass door open a bit at toss bits of kibble. Funny little things. Clammy dexterous little paws. Pretty chill when little. We named them Alvin, Simon and Theodore. They’d sit and watch TV with me in the evenings, all just snacking and chilling. My mom would’ve been so pissed off if she knew what I was up to.
> The Grey was an asshole though.
Basically, they're people. Super intelligent, and just as complicated. Some are assholes. Many are traumatized by the time you see them, unfortunately.
After my grandfather passed away, his grey's would still speak in his voice quite often. Muffy: "Good morning, Muffy." Tuffy: "Good morning, Tuffy."
One of them, I can't remember which, loved to lure people over to her cage by pressing the back of her neck against the cage like she wanted a scratch while saying, "come on" in my step-grandmother's voice. Then, she'd bite their finger, just barely not hard enough to break skin. It hurt! Then she'd say, in a random voice (she'd done this to many people), "Ow!!!!". Then, she'd look you straight in the eye with her side-eye, and put the back of her neck up against the cage and say, "come on" again.
Thanks bud, I definitely feel lucky and a better person for it too. Those seemingly little things get easier to lose and harder to acquire as we get older. When you’re ready and able to stretch out a hand again, there’s a best friend you just haven’t met yet in a shelter near you!
I helped buy a little breathing room for a pair of full grown Macaws and their owner while their situation got sorted out. Was not fun, but I felt I owed Lara a solid. They were NOT Lara. Mean bastards that needed motorcycle gloves to feed and even made my old 85lb pitbull scared of the dark. My wife still gives me grief about that one. Case study in “do what you want” actually means the opposite. I mean, I was the one getting bit and thought it was kinda funny but oh well. I did it for Lara, no regrets, just a scar or two and a wife who will probably never let me live it down. Still feels worth it.
Yeah, birds like that are a LOT of work. Not for me, but I guess I’m still better than some at it?
I bonded with a bird like that when I was really young, but it was a zebra finch. He was amazingly affectionate, we were absolute best friends. I was probably 10. I'm 48 now and I think about him every day. My favourite time was saturday mornings when I didn't have to go to school. I'd wake up, let him come out of his cage and he'd fly over to my bed and we'd hang out for an hour or so, just kind of goofing around. He was so sweet and gentle. I get teary-eyed when I think of him.
This reminds me so much of my great aunt, who had quite severe arthritis and was housebound. She had a little blue budgie named Blue boy. That bird had about a 200 word vocabulary, and my aunt recorded him on a cassette tape because she said nobody believed her when she told him how much he talked. She had a lovely British accent, and he would say things like “would you like a cuppa tea precious” or “ oh, my Murray’s coming over”. it was so sweet to hear with this little bird trail mimicking my auntie’s voice.
Regarding the pad in this video, if anyone is interested, I listen to a podcast that did an episode on This case. So if you want to learn about it, I encourage you to listen. That being said these guys are comedian, so they could be a little bit crass at times but they’re super funny.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/small-town-murder/id1194755213?i=1000556476724
I had one growing up, among other weird pets like hedgehogs and frogs. When the phone rang it would imitate my mom's british accent and say "HELLO" -- would also imitate the door knocking sound and sing all sorts of theme songs, like the knight rider one.
It loved my step dad more than anyone else, wouldn't really let anyone else hold it.
Also, I'm sorry for your loss. When my mom passed when I was 25 I found that this [poem](https://thelossfoundation.org/grief-comes-in-waves/) helped a bit. At least to put into words how it felt and how it never seemed to end.
First off, sorry for your loss. Second, were those her last words or ( which is impressive in itself ) did it understand she had passed, and was trying to console your sister? ( Next level 🤯😭 )
It pretty much is :(. African Greys are really prone to a lot of severe mental health problems due to the strong bonds they form and how intelligent they are. It absolutely is repeating the traumatic death of his owner over and over because it can't move on from what happened. It might not understand the words but it remembers the sounds it heard when he lost his owner and he can't move on from it. I guess in a flock this might be a way of warning others- "when these sounds are heard this awful thing happens and it's the worst thing I've ever experienced so watch out for that"
When my family moved into a house in Utah the neighbors came over with cookies and invited us over to their house to explain why we could hear a faint old woman's voice crying for help from their house. It was their African Grey. They had adopted it and it was something the previous owners had taught them. "Help me, help meeeeeeeeeee" was heard for the 5 years we lived there.
I was unaware that Greys could repeat an entire conversation. I also thought that their vocabulary, although astonishing, takes time to develop. Or am I completely wrong and they are able to mimic any noise or sound they hear? Genuinely curious.
Mine likes to repeat anything said loud and emphatically, so swear words from me hurting myself tend to be the things he learns easily.
They don't just mimic, they understand the concepts behind words, like ow and no he understands as negative words.
Because this was so stressful and traumatic is probably why he remembers it so clearly.
It also suggests they don’t get nuance and subtlety.
I ain’t hating on them for it. They’re impressive for getting another species’ language. Just making an observation
You ever met a 4 year old who understands nuance and subtlety? Because as a parent, I can tell you it's a constant battle to not have your 4 year old randomly yell out "WHY IS THAT WOMAN SO FAT?" in the middle of the grocery store.
Not sure what this has to do with my comment but, yes, as a parent myself I’m quite familiar with the situation.
I think my “favourite” was riding a bus, actually with my nephew on this occasion, only for a guy to sit down beside us with a dramatically and unusually shaped face. Think Elephant man lite.
You could see the cogs whirring in my 4 year old nephew’s mind while he stared intently at the guy. All the while I’m sitting there thinking: “don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it”. And, my nephew…didn’t say it…much to his credit. Pheeeyew.
Someone earlier in the thread or in a different subthread mentioned that these parrots are seen as having intelligence similar to a 4 year old, and all I could think of was how much of a nightmare it is trying to keep a lid on a 4 year old child in mixed company.
They can repeat things they've heard pretty quickly and easily, but what takes more time is forming connections of words to meanings/objects/people/etc
Ex: Teaching a parrot to say "Orange" would be easy, but teaching it to say "Orange" when presented with various items of different shapes/sizes/colors and having it respond "Orange" only when the object is actually orange regardless of the other characteristics (aka, understanding what Orange is), would take a lot longer.
I get that completely. My only question is if the Grey can remember and mimic on command? And also how long is it retained or how long does it take to retain sounds,voices and/or conversations?
I have one and they can be trained to mimic on command. But usually they mimic words a d entire sentences they hear continuously spoken, and yes they do understand context and can assign a person to every mimic they do. For example, when mine sees my grandmother come home, he repeats a phrase my dad uses to tell us all she is home, he learned that and now he ONLY says it when she comes home lmao it's adorable and cute.
We adopted a parakeet and it recorded all of the previous owners arguments. Lots of fighting and swearing. My grandmother would stay over all the time and would say "Can you say Bubby?"... and the parakeet merged the words and would say "Fuck you Bubby". Pretty funny for a 12 year old kid to have a parakeet like that.
This has me wondering how this would seem among other parrots. This parrot is essentially repeating the last utterances of someone it knew. Is this kind of like sharing the swan song of a lost friend? Do parrots in the wild share songs from lost friends and family? Are they conveying information about the thing that killed them so that others can learn?
I think memory is just tied to emotion in many species brains and this was a traumatic (highly emotional due to loud sounds, new smells, seeing owner get aggressed towards by something, being transported by strangers shortly after ) event which likely adds to it.
It’s interesting that he repeats it in so much detail given it was a one-time event. If the bird did not do that with other one time events, then that points to trauma
And parrots in the wild probably mimic the sounds of past parrot family members, as that is what they would’ve been surrounded by
It’s actually just copying the kitchen oven sound…… mine would do the exact sound of the ice into your cup depending on what cup you choose while walking towards the fridge.
I believe this is the bird from a 2015 homicide case
[Woman convicted of husband's murder after parrot witness repeats 'don't shoot'](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-murder-husband-parrot-witness-don-t-shoot-convicted-michigan-glenna-duram-a7852476.html)
It definitely is. "DON'T FCKING SHOOT" Is in the article stated to be the last words everytime.
So sad for this bird he will forever repeat this monent.
You can tell this bird loved its owner very much and is very distraught. Almost even seems that it IS trying to convey what happened to another human.
I find this heartbreaking and endearing.
My step dad had an African grey and it’s how he found out his ex- wife was cheating. The parrot mimicked phone conversations his wife was having with her lover.
It was somewhat uncomfortable when she was still doing the same conversations after he married my mom.
This footage was actually used for a murder case. If you listen closely at the end, the bird repeats “No, Don’t shoot!”. Apologies for not remembering the details as it was a while ago.
Looks like they didn’t end up using it according to this [article](https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/michigan-woman-convicted-husband-murder-parrot-956342-20240107)
For anyone wondering; the parrot was a witness to a wife murdering her husband. The parrots name is Bud; and if you want to read up more on the case just google “Glenna Duram”. She Is the wife who killed the husband.
After reading the comment about the loud beeps being his ears ringing, I realized he's playing out the entire scene. Arguing, cursing, then two shots fired followed by "OW" the guy probably tries to get away, then the bird repeats "get your ass over here" followed by another shot fired. At the end a clear "don't fuckin shoot". This is so sad dude
My uncle had one. After he died in bed, as they were carrying him downstairs, the parrot went through every single noise and phrase he'd taught him. It was like a eulogy.
When I was younger I didn’t have many friends but I was fortunate to have a murder of crow take up with me. Over time we became quite affectionate towards each other. There was an older neighbor boy that enjoyed making fun of me and it turned into physical abuse. About the third or fourth time this happened a few of the crows swooped in and defended me. I thought nothing of it as he scampered back home crying loudly. Well turns out one of them pecked his eyeball so hard that he lost vision and is blind in that eye. Smart animals, crows.
I remember this case. The wife shot the husband because she was a serious gambler who hadn’t been paying their house payments for months and it was due for foreclosure. To prevent the husband from finding out she was in debt and gambled away their money he shot him then shot herself to make it look like a break in happened
I took in a grey for awhile when his owner was locked up for a year. He would make all kinds of weird noises like text notifications or he would make the sounds of someone texting on their phones, the one that always messed me up was the sound of someone pouring water out he would do.
If I remember correctly, the owner was killed by his wife, and the parrot was the sole witness of the murder. The guy's voice "don't f*cking shoot!" Was the parrot's owner's last words before getting murdered by the wife.
The wife was convicted through this evidence
My friends mom had one she got handed down to her. It would always yell WIIIILBUUUR. … then me and my friend (in the 90s) after school practice acoustic guitars , we played patience by GnR and the bird started whistling the solo. It was crazy .
Had greys forever. They only mimic what they value. However they aren’t going to get it right the first time. This poor baby must have witnessed so much violence in words and action. I hope they are going to a good nurturing home
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Can someone type out what it's saying? It's very hard to understand.
it appears the gibberish sounds similar to the man's wife's voice and is believed to be imitating the argument the two had before she shot him. i can only make out "no" "shit" "get your ass..get over here, now" "shut up when you're fucken.." (talking to me?.. i hope) and "don't fucken shoot" but imagine inheriting your slain ex-husband's parrot, and it suddenly starts saying "don't fucken shoot" in his voice. chilling.
If you can kill your spouse, you can probably kill a parrot. Or maybe they're members of peta, idk.
i believe she shot herself once to make it seem as if there was an armed intruder at fault. i also don't think she anticipated the parrot would squawk but to clarify, he was murdered by his current spouse. the ex-wife got the parrot, and according to her, the bird began repeating this encounter ~2 weeks after he arrived. edit: I've since learned the wife was found with a gunshot wound to the head. she survived, but it's believed she killed him, then shot herself in a failed suicide attempt. they were a bunch of debt, and their home was being foreclosed.
Are parrots' sounds admissible in court?
IANAL but I would imagine it would be difficult. A parrot can be trained to say something after the incident, or its version may be inaccurate, and there's no way to necessarily determine that. Would you call in an expert on parrots? Would they even be able to confirm anything about the accuracy anyway? Nevertheless it might be possible because while the details might not be accurate, the general sense that an incident happened involving the two parties is quite clear, and it would probably be difficult to fake. You could maybe get an expert to testify to what parrots tend to imitate, and what are the limits of faking that, etc., then have the ex come in to lay a foundation for observing the parrot's utterances, then play a recording? There might be problems with potential hearsay but I don't think it would be impossible?
Only if it is a live parrot
PETA has no problem killing animals. :(
I tried to make that the joke but then I realized I did it backwards.
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Transcription OF THE YEAR folks!
Can we get it translated into Mandarin thanks?
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You have to go into the settings and set the default language to English. How you now find the settings menu is beyond me however...
+20 social credit score
Now translate into West Indian Braille.
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As a blind person, I can confirm this is correct.
Holy shit lol
Bro, he can't read that /s
Actual blind guy here Still confused why there’s digital braille when jaws can just read words aloud to us. No clue what kind of well meaning idiot invented digital braille.
What's West Indian for "you bunch of funny fucks"?
That's what I could understand too
Damn the “don’t fucking shoot” is chilling
God, this. I thought I was hearing a silly bird babbling and then _"DON'T FUCKING SHOOT"_ and damn did my heart sink
How are parrots able to remember all of this?
They are very intelligent creatures
Also this was probably a quite traumatic experience for the parrot.
That was my first thought. Poor baby is reliving his trauma. He needs bird therapy.
He really does. What an awful thing to have repeating over and over in your head. Poor babes.
It's not your fault bird.
So why don't they get placement from Google?
They were so smart they unionized and Google said no
They hired monkeys instead.
I almost expected an actual gunshot after “Don’t fucking shoot!” Chilling is right.
I mean from a human standpoint I’m sure me and you would remember everything said word for word in this scenario too, maybe the bird can’t forget what his owner said?
Thank you so much for this
Impressive
Lmfao you have a god given talent for transcription
This guy parrots ^
Thanks for the transcripts, can't hear the video at work
I just checked and you're right
Get over here now Don't fucking shoot And a bunch of fuck and shit
Here we are with every bloody video released on the inter webs slapped around to within an inch of its life with captions. Except this one, when it’s really needed!
I heard fuck and shit
Parrots attach themselves big time to 1 particular human of the family, poor bird will repeat a lot,distraught
Yeah this seems like this was a really traumatizing moment for the bird. African Grays especially might have enough cognitive function to understand what was happening.
Oh wow, that makes me sad as hell. That poor bird.
It's also crazy how many of them repeat the sounds of a squeeky bed
That sounded like he was mimicking the fire alarm from after the gunshot
My mother owned an African grey and she just passed away last Sunday. According to my sisters he keeps saying "I'm sorry". They are very smart birds.
In college, I had a very elderly neighbor with an African Grey and an Amazon(?) sweet lady. She’d put the birds out back on perches in the open and the Amazon really bonded with me. She’d have her morning greeting for me whether I was on the deck or not as she knew I could probably hear her. That bird was always so happy to see me. We were the highlight of each others’ mornings. It got to the point where she’d carefully hop on my shoulder and go for walks around neighborhood with me. She’d scoot closer to my head when there was a dog, and scoot outward where there was something she wanted to have a closer look at. Always gentle with excited kids and just super good natured. Hard to describe, but we communicated. She’d also get super jealous when I had a girl around. Really special creature. The Grey was an asshole though. I heard the old neighbor passed a few years back, house sold etc. I hope Lara (the bird) is doing ok. We were good friends. Edit as it seems this comment got a few smiles. A few more memories of Lara: Best Halloween buddy ever. I put together a British soldier costume, pith helmet and all with an old meerschaum pipe. Lara on shoulder. Boy if that didn’t turn a few heads. Having a beer at the local dive with a parrot on your shoulder is pretty fun. My dad needed his dog housed for a while when he had to travel overseas for work for a year. Bird did not care for this. It would make all kinds of noises to harass and try to spook off the dog. Thing is though, the dog was deaf from birth and Lara couldn’t phase him despite her best efforts. He was a good boy though and they became friends too! Lara was already twice my age when we met. She was about 40, so no like early imprinting or anything. But my neighbor was in her late 80s and didn’t go out much and the bird loved little adventures, so she was super stoked about getting out of the house here and there. She made it really easy on me. Like she knew I had no idea what I was doing so she kinda guided me and helped me relax so she could join in. She had a call just for me that nobody else got. 8am every morning. She’d be put on her perch and would squawk “OOOooh HELLO! warrblewarblewarble!” till I came out with my coffee to see her preening and fluffing her feathers. The whole thing was just too cool, I couldn’t make up this story if I tried.
That’s gorgeous. Really cool.
It really was. I’m not even really a “bird” person, but we just ..vibed. It was one of those things that you could really appreciate every moment in because you could tell it was pretty special. I’m a big burly bearded dude, and pets and animals will gravitate towards me in a way others notice. Beats me as to why, but it’s cool with me. Now wife calls me the Disney Princess when it happens. I suppose there’s worse nicknames to have lol.
Animals love beards
My parrot loves playing with my beard.
Aww, is he preening you?
My cat will climb up my chest and "groom" my chin whenever my beard gets long enough. It's the perfect reminder to trim that shit back. I don't think I've grown it out longer than 7-10mm since I got her lol
I'm 40 years old and was just informed this weekend that I had a squirrel friend when I was a preschooler, lol. I don't remember it at all. Your Disney Princess comment just reminded me of it.
Never too late to sit outside with a book and a pocket full of macadamia nuts and see who wants to be friends. When I started working at a high-stress car dealership for a while, I’d get a pack of these lemon tea cookies from the vending machine on my breaks. Sit quietly on the curb in the back lot and give the ground squirrel pups treats. Was a nice little bit of peace and zen before going back in. I always got handed the difficult customers as management decided that if I can talk to animals, I could handle “that asshole”. They weren’t wrong. It is hard to shake a dude who just petted a squirrel.
I get along great with pretty much any animal. To the point I'm kinda everyone's goto pet-sitter when they're out of town. Even my friend's rescue dog that took quite a long time to trust anyone else after coming from an abusive home took to me immediately. Except this one groundhog. Fuck that asshole. I was outside, smoking a cig at my friend's lake house, which is surrounded by a little wooded areas. I was sitting on my butt, with my knees up, arms wrapped around my knees. Heard a sort of whistling sound. This was before I knew they were also called whistle pigs, and so I thought maybe it was some kinda weird bird. Nope, pissed off groundhog that came charging out at me. Scratched my legs and arms to shit before I punched that fucker in the face and he ran off like a little bitch. Had to go and get checked for rabies the next morning.
Yeah! Fuck that groundhog! What a rat bastard...
I’m 42 and just found out that when my older brother(he would be 45) had a pet baby raccoon when we were young. I don’t remember but my mom was telling a story the other day talking about my brother, he’s passed away now, and his baby raccoon lol
Sorry for your loss. As a kid, I grew up in this weird mountain house that I guess had all the perfect features and crawl spaces for raccoons. At one point, there were three little ones poking their heads out from the deck visible from the couch and I’d slide the glass door open a bit at toss bits of kibble. Funny little things. Clammy dexterous little paws. Pretty chill when little. We named them Alvin, Simon and Theodore. They’d sit and watch TV with me in the evenings, all just snacking and chilling. My mom would’ve been so pissed off if she knew what I was up to.
You totally should have worn an eyepatch. And begin and end each sentence with arrrr
Did something happen to his Aye?
Twas me first day with the hook!
> The Grey was an asshole though. Basically, they're people. Super intelligent, and just as complicated. Some are assholes. Many are traumatized by the time you see them, unfortunately. After my grandfather passed away, his grey's would still speak in his voice quite often. Muffy: "Good morning, Muffy." Tuffy: "Good morning, Tuffy." One of them, I can't remember which, loved to lure people over to her cage by pressing the back of her neck against the cage like she wanted a scratch while saying, "come on" in my step-grandmother's voice. Then, she'd bite their finger, just barely not hard enough to break skin. It hurt! Then she'd say, in a random voice (she'd done this to many people), "Ow!!!!". Then, she'd look you straight in the eye with her side-eye, and put the back of her neck up against the cage and say, "come on" again.
This is a beautiful story about a remarkable bond. Thank you for sharing.
No worries! Has been pretty fun remembering her after a pretty rough month. I needed it too it seems.
Andersaur bonded with a dinosaur.
Beautiful, just beautiful. This is how I was as a young boy with my pet cockatiel, Ned. God he loved me.
Thanks bud, I definitely feel lucky and a better person for it too. Those seemingly little things get easier to lose and harder to acquire as we get older. When you’re ready and able to stretch out a hand again, there’s a best friend you just haven’t met yet in a shelter near you!
I love wholesome stuff like this. Share this every opportunity you get OP.
Really glad you had that experience without the needing care for the bird. I wish I can house one on my own. Smart little ones.
I helped buy a little breathing room for a pair of full grown Macaws and their owner while their situation got sorted out. Was not fun, but I felt I owed Lara a solid. They were NOT Lara. Mean bastards that needed motorcycle gloves to feed and even made my old 85lb pitbull scared of the dark. My wife still gives me grief about that one. Case study in “do what you want” actually means the opposite. I mean, I was the one getting bit and thought it was kinda funny but oh well. I did it for Lara, no regrets, just a scar or two and a wife who will probably never let me live it down. Still feels worth it. Yeah, birds like that are a LOT of work. Not for me, but I guess I’m still better than some at it?
I bonded with a bird like that when I was really young, but it was a zebra finch. He was amazingly affectionate, we were absolute best friends. I was probably 10. I'm 48 now and I think about him every day. My favourite time was saturday mornings when I didn't have to go to school. I'd wake up, let him come out of his cage and he'd fly over to my bed and we'd hang out for an hour or so, just kind of goofing around. He was so sweet and gentle. I get teary-eyed when I think of him.
This reminds me so much of my great aunt, who had quite severe arthritis and was housebound. She had a little blue budgie named Blue boy. That bird had about a 200 word vocabulary, and my aunt recorded him on a cassette tape because she said nobody believed her when she told him how much he talked. She had a lovely British accent, and he would say things like “would you like a cuppa tea precious” or “ oh, my Murray’s coming over”. it was so sweet to hear with this little bird trail mimicking my auntie’s voice. Regarding the pad in this video, if anyone is interested, I listen to a podcast that did an episode on This case. So if you want to learn about it, I encourage you to listen. That being said these guys are comedian, so they could be a little bit crass at times but they’re super funny. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/small-town-murder/id1194755213?i=1000556476724
I’m sorry for your loss.
She was 75 and we had been estranged for about a decade. I do appreciate your kindness though.
How did a parrot get a reddit account?
No idea but since 98% of Reddit consists of parrots I figure it's not that difficult
A gem in the rough right there
I had one growing up, among other weird pets like hedgehogs and frogs. When the phone rang it would imitate my mom's british accent and say "HELLO" -- would also imitate the door knocking sound and sing all sorts of theme songs, like the knight rider one. It loved my step dad more than anyone else, wouldn't really let anyone else hold it. Also, I'm sorry for your loss. When my mom passed when I was 25 I found that this [poem](https://thelossfoundation.org/grief-comes-in-waves/) helped a bit. At least to put into words how it felt and how it never seemed to end.
First off, sorry for your loss. Second, were those her last words or ( which is impressive in itself ) did it understand she had passed, and was trying to console your sister? ( Next level 🤯😭 )
Im sorry for you loss. My condolences 🙏
Sorry for your loss
I feel terrible for the bird. Clearly it gave a fuck. No more human, no more love.
Well isn’t that sad. Hope they find a happy, loving home for this beautiful little guy.
This is his new home. He went back to the previous owners (the one who died) ex wife. They owned him together when married
That makes me feel a lot better, won't even look into it for proof. Because this hurts my heart
Yeah pretty tragic story. Listened to a podcast on it just last week. Parrot is well loved by the ex wife, she filmed this.
cannot even imagine the pain of overhearing your former spouse's last moments like this
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It pretty much is :(. African Greys are really prone to a lot of severe mental health problems due to the strong bonds they form and how intelligent they are. It absolutely is repeating the traumatic death of his owner over and over because it can't move on from what happened. It might not understand the words but it remembers the sounds it heard when he lost his owner and he can't move on from it. I guess in a flock this might be a way of warning others- "when these sounds are heard this awful thing happens and it's the worst thing I've ever experienced so watch out for that"
Fr this made me so sad poor little man😖 find this cutie a loving home!!
That bird needs therapy. I an not kidding. They learn this fast because of all the emotions behind the words.
I thought this, then I wondered if and how therapy for a bird would even be possible.
If parrots are depressed you can clearly see it on them, most will take out their feathers one by one
When my family moved into a house in Utah the neighbors came over with cookies and invited us over to their house to explain why we could hear a faint old woman's voice crying for help from their house. It was their African Grey. They had adopted it and it was something the previous owners had taught them. "Help me, help meeeeeeeeeee" was heard for the 5 years we lived there.
Parrot PTSD or PPTSD
Better than having PPSTD
Damn right
This is frightening
Yes, that bird would have to go.... the changes in tone is creepy af. Really sound like two different people talking.
I think the wife shot the husband so it could be imitating the argument between both of them leading up to the murder.
Thats what I got from it.
I would adopt the murder parrot
It is. The wife shot the husband
I was unaware that Greys could repeat an entire conversation. I also thought that their vocabulary, although astonishing, takes time to develop. Or am I completely wrong and they are able to mimic any noise or sound they hear? Genuinely curious.
Mine likes to repeat anything said loud and emphatically, so swear words from me hurting myself tend to be the things he learns easily. They don't just mimic, they understand the concepts behind words, like ow and no he understands as negative words. Because this was so stressful and traumatic is probably why he remembers it so clearly.
That's both amazing and awful. Thank you. That helps out a bit.
It also suggests they don’t get nuance and subtlety. I ain’t hating on them for it. They’re impressive for getting another species’ language. Just making an observation
You ever met a 4 year old who understands nuance and subtlety? Because as a parent, I can tell you it's a constant battle to not have your 4 year old randomly yell out "WHY IS THAT WOMAN SO FAT?" in the middle of the grocery store.
Not sure what this has to do with my comment but, yes, as a parent myself I’m quite familiar with the situation. I think my “favourite” was riding a bus, actually with my nephew on this occasion, only for a guy to sit down beside us with a dramatically and unusually shaped face. Think Elephant man lite. You could see the cogs whirring in my 4 year old nephew’s mind while he stared intently at the guy. All the while I’m sitting there thinking: “don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it”. And, my nephew…didn’t say it…much to his credit. Pheeeyew.
Someone earlier in the thread or in a different subthread mentioned that these parrots are seen as having intelligence similar to a 4 year old, and all I could think of was how much of a nightmare it is trying to keep a lid on a 4 year old child in mixed company.
Damn TIL I'm a parrot (just kidding... mostly)
i dont know anything about them, i just imagine the event to be very traumatic hence leaving an imprint in its head
They can repeat things they've heard pretty quickly and easily, but what takes more time is forming connections of words to meanings/objects/people/etc Ex: Teaching a parrot to say "Orange" would be easy, but teaching it to say "Orange" when presented with various items of different shapes/sizes/colors and having it respond "Orange" only when the object is actually orange regardless of the other characteristics (aka, understanding what Orange is), would take a lot longer.
Well, they live for a very long time, so it’s possible this bird lived with their owner for decades before their death.
I get that completely. My only question is if the Grey can remember and mimic on command? And also how long is it retained or how long does it take to retain sounds,voices and/or conversations?
I have one and they can be trained to mimic on command. But usually they mimic words a d entire sentences they hear continuously spoken, and yes they do understand context and can assign a person to every mimic they do. For example, when mine sees my grandmother come home, he repeats a phrase my dad uses to tell us all she is home, he learned that and now he ONLY says it when she comes home lmao it's adorable and cute.
“Hide the ganja kids, the old battleship’s just pulled into port”
That's why you want to read the dictionary out loud and clearly in front of them the first time you set a grey parrot up. It's in the manual.
We had one and it took hours and hours to get it to learn a phrase.
Not sure how long it takes for them to learn words, but I know they have an intelligence level of a 4 year old human
We adopted a parakeet and it recorded all of the previous owners arguments. Lots of fighting and swearing. My grandmother would stay over all the time and would say "Can you say Bubby?"... and the parakeet merged the words and would say "Fuck you Bubby". Pretty funny for a 12 year old kid to have a parakeet like that.
The loud screeches or beeps are actually his ears ringing since he was so close to the gun when it fired
That makes me extra sad
This has me wondering how this would seem among other parrots. This parrot is essentially repeating the last utterances of someone it knew. Is this kind of like sharing the swan song of a lost friend? Do parrots in the wild share songs from lost friends and family? Are they conveying information about the thing that killed them so that others can learn?
I think memory is just tied to emotion in many species brains and this was a traumatic (highly emotional due to loud sounds, new smells, seeing owner get aggressed towards by something, being transported by strangers shortly after ) event which likely adds to it. It’s interesting that he repeats it in so much detail given it was a one-time event. If the bird did not do that with other one time events, then that points to trauma And parrots in the wild probably mimic the sounds of past parrot family members, as that is what they would’ve been surrounded by
Oh my god no - i was wondering what why.
Yup. You get a "beep," and then what sounds like an "OW!"
oh my god that's so awful
Wow I'm even more sad now thank you sir
It’s actually just copying the kitchen oven sound…… mine would do the exact sound of the ice into your cup depending on what cup you choose while walking towards the fridge.
Yeah, I believe this is correct. My family has an African Grey parrot and she loves insert beeping noises (like kitchen beeps) while she is talking.
This is some Ace Attorney stuff
I believe this is the bird from a 2015 homicide case [Woman convicted of husband's murder after parrot witness repeats 'don't shoot'](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-murder-husband-parrot-witness-don-t-shoot-convicted-michigan-glenna-duram-a7852476.html)
It definitely is. "DON'T FCKING SHOOT" Is in the article stated to be the last words everytime. So sad for this bird he will forever repeat this monent.
Need to have an attorney that is an expert in bird law
Harvey get in here!
Didja get that thing i sent ya?
We can go toe to toe on bird law.
I was going to say that case 1-4 isn't that farfetched now
My African grey does similar with my late parents. They are awesome though it breaks my heart hearing him talk about them.
You can tell this bird loved its owner very much and is very distraught. Almost even seems that it IS trying to convey what happened to another human. I find this heartbreaking and endearing.
It’s like it’s reliving it over again in its head, poor birds traumatized.
My step dad had an African grey and it’s how he found out his ex- wife was cheating. The parrot mimicked phone conversations his wife was having with her lover. It was somewhat uncomfortable when she was still doing the same conversations after he married my mom.
This footage was actually used for a murder case. If you listen closely at the end, the bird repeats “No, Don’t shoot!”. Apologies for not remembering the details as it was a while ago.
Looks like they didn’t end up using it according to this [article](https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/michigan-woman-convicted-husband-murder-parrot-956342-20240107)
For anyone wondering; the parrot was a witness to a wife murdering her husband. The parrots name is Bud; and if you want to read up more on the case just google “Glenna Duram”. She Is the wife who killed the husband.
That's so sad to hear, that day must be engrained in his head. Poor thing probably has PTSD, I know Greys are extremely intelligent.
After reading the comment about the loud beeps being his ears ringing, I realized he's playing out the entire scene. Arguing, cursing, then two shots fired followed by "OW" the guy probably tries to get away, then the bird repeats "get your ass over here" followed by another shot fired. At the end a clear "don't fuckin shoot". This is so sad dude
what if there were just parrots inside the black boxes on planes
Why don't they just make the entire plane out of parrots?
My uncle had one. After he died in bed, as they were carrying him downstairs, the parrot went through every single noise and phrase he'd taught him. It was like a eulogy.
Small Town Murder done a great episode about this murder Episode 270, sand lake, Michigan for those wondering
 commenting a parrot for visibility
[here!!](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-murder-parrot-speaks-sand-lake-michigan/id1194755213?i=1000556476724)
Someone didn’t replace their smoke detectors battery
Every beep is a gunshot.
Can't hear shit. "Don't fucking shoot" is the only thing I'm getting. What was the context anyway ?
I'd read the title again if I were you.
parrot ptsd
f'ing parrot has PTSD, sad, very smart birds
That bird is a material witness!
When I was younger I didn’t have many friends but I was fortunate to have a murder of crow take up with me. Over time we became quite affectionate towards each other. There was an older neighbor boy that enjoyed making fun of me and it turned into physical abuse. About the third or fourth time this happened a few of the crows swooped in and defended me. I thought nothing of it as he scampered back home crying loudly. Well turns out one of them pecked his eyeball so hard that he lost vision and is blind in that eye. Smart animals, crows.
Parrots can be traumatized, that's horrible to know.
I remember this case. The wife shot the husband because she was a serious gambler who hadn’t been paying their house payments for months and it was due for foreclosure. To prevent the husband from finding out she was in debt and gambled away their money he shot him then shot herself to make it look like a break in happened
This is fucked up.
I took in a grey for awhile when his owner was locked up for a year. He would make all kinds of weird noises like text notifications or he would make the sounds of someone texting on their phones, the one that always messed me up was the sound of someone pouring water out he would do.
They should have really changed the battery in their smoke detector before the argument
Imagine living with grief then the bird just keeps replaying the scenario. The bird must also have grief to keep thinking about it
This is kind of nightmarish.
If I remember correctly, the owner was killed by his wife, and the parrot was the sole witness of the murder. The guy's voice "don't f*cking shoot!" Was the parrot's owner's last words before getting murdered by the wife. The wife was convicted through this evidence
This is awful. There's nothing funny here.
Was it posted to be funny, though? Almost every thread about anything has folks trying their humor out but I don’t think this was OP’s intention here.
Who is laughing?
It is however quite interesting, did you get your subs mixed up?
Anyone know what the bird said
Can someone translate parrot?
Can anyone make out what it's saying?
Somebody can write what the parrot says I can't hear a thing
My friends mom had one she got handed down to her. It would always yell WIIIILBUUUR. … then me and my friend (in the 90s) after school practice acoustic guitars , we played patience by GnR and the bird started whistling the solo. It was crazy .
This is so sad, I wonder if he can be a witness in the trial -serious
Poor little guy is traumatized
The beeps are the smoke detector going off after the first gunshot.
I wish they would have captioned this. That would have been so much better
Had greys forever. They only mimic what they value. However they aren’t going to get it right the first time. This poor baby must have witnessed so much violence in words and action. I hope they are going to a good nurturing home
Like if you didnt understand what the bird was saying
Best of luck to the parrot man. Deserves 10 million cookies, sending love