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Zoo separates five foul-mouthed parrots
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Oct 14.2020 at Macca 10:36
London:The parrots -named Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie - joined Lincolnshire Wildlife
Centre’s colony of 200 grey parrots in August.
But it did not take them long to ruffle a few feathers with their foul language.
“We saw it very quickly; we are quite used to parrots swearing but we’ve never had five at the
same time,” Steve Nichols, CEO of the wildlife park said.
“Most parrots clam up outside, but for some reason these five relish it.”
The parrots have since been distributed to different areas of the park so they do not “set each
other off”.
Mr Nichols explained that nobody had complained about the parrots, but they were separated for the sake
of young visitors in the hopes that they would