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How do parrots learn to swear?
BBC Wildlife
|May 2024
THERE ARE FEW THINGS AS GLORIOUSLY entertaining as the effing and blinding of a potty-mouthed parrot.
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You can't beat a well-timed expletive uttered by an animal that doesn't know what it means. It's not just parrots. Starlings, mynahs, Australian magpies, lyrebirds, bowerbirds and corvids can all mimic human speech. Even a captive Australian musk duck hit the news in 2021 when it was recorded saying "
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