One late afternoon my mom hears my baby sister crying in her room. Gets up. Checks on her. Sleeping soundly in her bed.
Half an hour later. Crying again. Same thing, my sister is sleeping
This happened a couple times
Took a couple days for my mom to figure out that one of the parrots learned to imitate my crying sister perfectly, and she could hear it when my neighbor had his windows open
My grandma once told me about a budgie they had back before I was born. It apparently was actively trolling them by mimicking sounds of their doorbell and landline phone.
Don’t make a mistake, they know perfectly fine which sounds grab our attention and they will abuse this knowledge.
When I was a kid, our neighbors had parrots.
One late afternoon my mom hears my baby sister crying in her room. Gets up. Checks on her. Sleeping soundly in her bed.
Half an hour later. Crying again. Same thing, my sister is sleeping
This happened a couple times
Took a couple days for my mom to figure out that one of the parrots learned to imitate my crying sister perfectly, and she could hear it when my neighbor had his windows open
My grandma once told me about a budgie they had back before I was born. It apparently was actively trolling them by mimicking sounds of their doorbell and landline phone.
Don’t make a mistake, they know perfectly fine which sounds grab our attention and they will abuse this knowledge.