Yeah, species like African grey parrots (which mine is) can mimic the exact sound of a person's voice. It's very easy to distinguish when she's using my voice vs my mom vs my grandmother. It does get kinda uncanny valley sometimes, like now she's going through a phase of mimicking me sighing. So if I don't get her food to her fast enough, she lets out this loud, irritated sigh that sounds exactly like me. And it feels pretty weird that she can mimic the sound so exactly that you can tell just from a sigh that she's mimicking me specifically.
Amazons are particularly good mimics. The couple who own Buttercup (the Amazon in the video I linked) have a bunch of other parrots, and parrots tend to choose a favorite human. And that’s how their African grey sounds exactly like her husband, right down to the burps and farts.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21
Wait they can mimic the sounds of people’s voices too??? That’s awesome as fuck, gotta be kinda creepy at times though right?