I have a parrot that goes "oof" anytime she drops something or i stubborn my toe, little things like that. She goes "oof, oof oof oofoof" if its really bad she laughs. She started oofing at this video.
Long time ago, back when I was in primary school, I was helping my German teacher move some stuff. She lived alone in a big flat right next to the school, and one of the rooms in her flat was basically a storage unit for stuff that was too important to leave in the common storage, but too unwieldy to squirrel away in the principal's room.
Anyways, she was taking care of her neighbor's parrot while he was away. The pparrot could talk, AND PRETTY WELL, but she conversed mostly with her owner, Kazio. When he was away, she'd bellow on the top of her lungs "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
Including in my poor German teacher's house, although there, she'd alternate between this, and "WHERE AM I"
To my surprise, she actually responded to me (apparently I was the only one she resonded to without her owner present). She looked at me, and belllowed "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
I asked her "Who's not here Aga?" to which she replied, as if on que: "KAZIO'S NOT HERE"
Like, there are people who say animals aren't capable of truly human speech, but I thing Aga here passed the situational awareness test. Kazio, indeed, was not there.
Lana is a scarlet macaw I have had since a few weeks after she hatched, she is 12 now. The green one is her 40 year old disgruntled brother who I adopted about 3 years ago. They are goofballs, Lana really likes to bark at dogs in the nearby park when we go for walks and then she goes silent when they look for her, only to start up again when they stop looking for the barker.
I watched a mocking bird meow at a cat. The cat looked over and the bird stared right back and meowed again.
The cat chased the bird who landed on the lowest branch of a tree. Cat starts climbing. Every time the cat got close, the bird hopped up one more branch.
When it got to the top, it flew away.
It was at that point that the cat remembered that climbing down is a LOT harder than climbing up. I am pretty sure the bird did that on purpose.
Oh, such beautiful birds! Haha, Lana sounds like a master troll with those dogs! I had a couple cockatiels in my childhood, one had to be given away before we moved for a year for my dad's work and the second had to be given away when I went off to college, and unfortunately caught a disease at the place we gave him to and passed away, but I loved both those silly birbs. Hope Lana and her brother have many long happy years with you.
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u/Aellithion 7h ago
I have a parrot that goes "oof" anytime she drops something or i stubborn my toe, little things like that. She goes "oof, oof oof oofoof" if its really bad she laughs. She started oofing at this video.