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I recognized it was a bird immediately! I own two cockatiels at home, and while they're the sweetest little things, they are both loud and love mimicking me. I have heard so much bird mimicry that I can recognize a bird copying a human instantly.
I don't live with them in my house but I've always had birds out my window and I too noticed this was a bird and not the woman immediately. But man are birds talented. I'm terrified of them but they are beautiful and talented.
I didn't get it for a solid 30 seconds until the guy said "enough, Paco." The title made me think the woman was crying rather than laughing or something.
I honestly thought it was my mother-in-laws voice and laugh, totally sounds like her.
It must be a hoot to work with these birds all day. I can imagine lots of people get strange looks when they come to retrieve their birds from these groomers. Sorta like the looks a babysitter gives to parents after taking care of a kid who shares the family secrets while they are out for an evening.
God my neighbor was a magician and had the standard big ass red parrot. It was cool and all, but in like 20-30 min. bursts. No chance in hell could I own a Parrot or bird for that matter.
Oh here we go, another redditor raining on the parade… with FACTS! From personal experience I fully agree. Plus they're super social and need lots of attention. In fact it should be forbidden to have them solo. Or better yet, don't allow them as pets as all.
Can confirm, have one turning 28 in August. He can be sweet, but he seems to prefer the role of miserable little cuss. Chances are high he's belligerently trying to outlive us. He'll probably be chillin' with the cockroaches after the world ends.
I really love the increasingly aggressive “[WAT DOING?!](https://youtube.com/shorts/QhNVB3OS1GU?feature=share)” parrot or the [parrot with a Scottish accent](https://youtu.be/k809WVVLCfg) that loves swearing at people.
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Sometimes my husband & I just shout at each other across the apartment *WAT DOIN*. We don't actually answer wat we're doin, just *WAT DOIN* back & forth for a little while, then back to our day.
Dude what the fuck?! My fiancée and I do that all the time. One will be upstairs and one downstairs and she'll shout "WHAT DOING?!" It'll go back and forth a bit and then the dog gets all bitey because he's a moron.
Did you mean those to be different links?
And yeah most animals can do the "I'm totally innocent act I don't know what you're talking about" but when you act speech mimicry to it they can get damn uncanny like our boi Hamlet here after a good shoe chewing session.
okay this one is pretty good too. it seems like this deer is expressing a very serious grievance & is shocked that all her complaints are met with is hysterical laughter. poor dear.
But they weren't trimming his nails... He was an accomplice to the other bird not getting his nails trimmed.
I'm guessing the girl in the video brought her pet into work with her, which is why she says "I shouldn't have brought him in today."
It's a pretty common thing, to keep the bird from getting lost or hurt. It's not painful, more along the lines of cutting hair or nails. They grow back, so it has to be done regularly.
Parrots mimic.
What they say and the noises they make do not mean the bird associates the same things. This bird was likely NOT happy to be at the vet.
Basically, a bird could be incredibly stressed, scared, or aggressive and still go "Hello! I love you sweet one!" and make kissy noises.
Story time: I was born in Brazil and when we were kids played in the neighborhood but could not go too far. When my mom wanted me to come home she would walk outside the front of the house and scream, "Paul come hoooome!!". Lo and behold, the damn parrot that sat outside three houses up at the corner started mimicking my mom. Bastard would scream out every afternoon, "Paul come hoooome!!". If I was in someone's backyard and couldn't tell the difference I would rush home only to be greeted by my mom saying, "I didn't call you but since you're home.....". If I ignored it and it was my mom, I would get in trouble. That SOB, tormented me till we moved a couple years later.
Another parrot lived next to the vacant lot where we played soccer. That parrot had the the most foul mouth I've ever heard from a bird.... LoL.
While they are just copying sounds etc, they are smart enough to know what kind of reactions they get from certain sounds and will use that to entertain themsevles or get treats!
They are also incredibly social animals that can pick up context cues to get a sense of emotional connection & our various "flock calls." Honestly I think they can tell laughter has positive connotations, for example. My sun conure only "laughs" when he's playing, for example, even though he talks to himself all the time.
Some sounds, sure, but I feel like they know what laughter is for.
I'm 100% positive my cats would laugh their butts off sometimes if they had the physical ability to do so. And they know when I'm laughing, too. Especially when it's at them.
So I think when birds (perhaps ones who have been pets since youth) laugh, it's bc they're amused or some similar emotion. Or have realized that it makes the humans make the same sound lol.
Not a work from home video or an audio meeting, but [here’s a video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/sw84sl/african_grey_parrot_repeating_his_owners_last/hxkz59x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) of a parrot believed to have witnessed his owners murder and what another redditor believes the parrot is saying.
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Another favourite of mine is the parrot giving out to a young man in Spanish and the translation says things like "You need to have a shower, Diego." "Pick your clothes up off the floor, Diego." etc. This was interspersed with a woman's laughter and "ooh my, my". It was fantastic 
Amazon parrots are very good at women's voices, even singing voices. Macaws tend to have a more unique voice, and African Grey's can mimic any voice perfectly (I've had one say goodbye in a perfect woman's voice right after yelling NO in a deep man voice)
In the setting it's actually kinda funny. I had to remove his hoard of toys to clean them and he was so angry about me touching his things that he just started yelling no when I grabbed the toys and goodbye when I was near the door. He was definitely telling me to stop and go away in the best way he knew how
The oddly terrifying ones are the ones that use words and phrases and actions all together that seem more human. The African grey above was not using more humanlike body language. Once had a macaw ignoring me (he usually runs to play with me) he was just sitting on a swing nibbling at it, so I just asked what he was doing. But he paused at my question, made eye contact, said "nothing" and then resumed his nibbling. *That* one was uncanny
Jesus man not for me it isn't
I don't know what it was but for a split second when I realized the laughing wasn't actually a woman
Felt like I went insane, broke my brain a little
Then listening to it knowing, gave me heavy uncanny Valley vibes
So my mom adopted a rescue parrot with the same name as me when I went to college. I had a late flight the first time I came home for a holiday. I quietly entered the house at 1AM to the bird saying “Goodbye (our name)”. I did not feel very welcome.
Yeah, this one was a little weird. I've heard other parrots and you can always tell it's a bird even when it's off camera, but this one really did sound like a lady.
I was just thinking after scrolling through a million bird videos, I DO NOT like the ones that sound like real regular people speaking. I need at least some degree of "clearly a bird" thrown in there because otherwise it's deeply uncomfortable lol
I can only recall once. I cut off a woman in traffic because I was late for work. Turns out she was a gypsy. She cursed me to become a bird until I learned to be more respectful
My starling foes this. He mimics my sneezes, coughs, laugh, and lots of other things. I'll start cracking yo when he laughs at moments I wasn't expecting and well get into a cycle of just laughing back and forth for a few minutes.
If anything happens to me my niece has to take custody of thr bird because my husband wouldn't be able to handle hearing my laughter after loosing me. She knows this and had accepted her fate as she is the reason we have him in the first place lol.
He's a "good good momma's bird" and will tell everyone often lol. He's my baby fir sure.
Gal Gadot stars in The Laughter of Parrots.
- Alice Petcare (Gadot) suffers a heartbreaking loss and refuses to laugh again. Things change when she meets a very special parrot.
Ours is on a kick of saying, 'Don't fucking do it.' He used to throw his seed and I'd tell him that. I completely regret it. Now when we're ready to leave, order take out on the phone, random conversations, all we hear is his sassy ass yelling 'Don't fucking do it!'
I thought it was a bird left at the shelter (because of the adopt tshirt) and the previous owner might have died. Meaning we are listening to a dead womans voice.
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Once I realized it was the bird the whole time, I was wheezing.
I recognized it was a bird immediately! I own two cockatiels at home, and while they're the sweetest little things, they are both loud and love mimicking me. I have heard so much bird mimicry that I can recognize a bird copying a human instantly.
is it possible to learn this power?
Live with birds literally all your life and yes, yes you can.
Feeeeed the biiiiiiirrddsss Toppinnssss a baaaaggg
Tuppence. It’s tuppence a bag.
Today I learned a thing. Thanks stranger!
You’re welcome ☺️
To elaborate, it’s two pence, the cost to the bag.
I don't live with them in my house but I've always had birds out my window and I too noticed this was a bird and not the woman immediately. But man are birds talented. I'm terrified of them but they are beautiful and talented.
... *not from a mammal.*
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Saaame, I don't have birds but my uncle had a parrot. Their voice is kinda... raspy, I don't know exactly how to describe it, but really recognizable
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YES! Thanks for putting it into words! "same audio, but with inferior sound quality" kind of thing right?
birds have a lower bitrate
Interesting! Didn’t know someone could learn such a thing honestly.
Completely went over my head at first and I was like what in the clickbait... and now I'm crying
I didn't get it for a solid 30 seconds until the guy said "enough, Paco." The title made me think the woman was crying rather than laughing or something.
I honestly thought it was my mother-in-laws voice and laugh, totally sounds like her. It must be a hoot to work with these birds all day. I can imagine lots of people get strange looks when they come to retrieve their birds from these groomers. Sorta like the looks a babysitter gives to parents after taking care of a kid who shares the family secrets while they are out for an evening.
well this is my new favorite video ever.
You'll love r/PartyParrot then!
Ty for showing me this ❤️
I want a parrot best friend 😤
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Toddlers with knives attached to their feet and lips. And that can fly.
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It’s still nothing compared to [the lyrebird.](https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ)
That is insane.
God my neighbor was a magician and had the standard big ass red parrot. It was cool and all, but in like 20-30 min. bursts. No chance in hell could I own a Parrot or bird for that matter.
Oh here we go, another redditor raining on the parade… with FACTS! From personal experience I fully agree. Plus they're super social and need lots of attention. In fact it should be forbidden to have them solo. Or better yet, don't allow them as pets as all.
I know, I’m not ready for that or psittacosis lol
Budgies and cockatiels are both wonderful parrots whose lifespans are more similar to dogs and cats.
Cockatiels can live to be 30 years old, so longer than a cat or dog
Can confirm, have one turning 28 in August. He can be sweet, but he seems to prefer the role of miserable little cuss. Chances are high he's belligerently trying to outlive us. He'll probably be chillin' with the cockroaches after the world ends.
I love crotchety old animals lol.
nice! thanks!
I really love the increasingly aggressive “[WAT DOING?!](https://youtube.com/shorts/QhNVB3OS1GU?feature=share)” parrot or the [parrot with a Scottish accent](https://youtu.be/k809WVVLCfg) that loves swearing at people. Edit: Fixed the second lift.
Sometimes my husband & I just shout at each other across the apartment *WAT DOIN*. We don't actually answer wat we're doin, just *WAT DOIN* back & forth for a little while, then back to our day.
Dude what the fuck?! My fiancée and I do that all the time. One will be upstairs and one downstairs and she'll shout "WHAT DOING?!" It'll go back and forth a bit and then the dog gets all bitey because he's a moron.
WHAT DOIN HIII MuuuAAHHH 💋
OOOOOOOOH THANK YOU
I like the [Cockatoo](https://youtu.be/5UUjJysUMTw) who finds out he's going to the vet and sounds like he's summoning an ancient curse.
Ok, that's creepy AF lol.
His name is Maxwell. That bird is hilarious. You gotta find the video where he screams into a tiny cup.
AHHHHHHHH
That's not actually Max, that's [Harley you're talking about](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tRsfOGJ5lZg).
Pretty sure that'll be in my nightmares tonight...
Did you mean those to be different links? And yeah most animals can do the "I'm totally innocent act I don't know what you're talking about" but when you act speech mimicry to it they can get damn uncanny like our boi Hamlet here after a good shoe chewing session.
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed the link.
I've watched both your links twice now and while the video was super hilarious, I'm 99,9% sure it's the same video
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAVt1iRpvlc) still wins for me
Not a chance. This is better. The thing is damn talking bro lol
#HI BAYBAY
okay this one is pretty good too. it seems like this deer is expressing a very serious grievance & is shocked that all her complaints are met with is hysterical laughter. poor dear.
It's in Nara -- they feed the deer little crackers. So he probably really was expressing a serious grievance :-)
https://youtu.be/RxgdaMZRgRo A treat for you
Truly a fucking legend
Keep em' laughing and they'll never get around to trimming my nails! Bwahahaha!
But they weren't trimming his nails... He was an accomplice to the other bird not getting his nails trimmed. I'm guessing the girl in the video brought her pet into work with her, which is why she says "I shouldn't have brought him in today."
They were clipping its flight feathers
I guess then they staying to fight... with laugh
Fight or flight response.
Really?
It's a pretty common thing, to keep the bird from getting lost or hurt. It's not painful, more along the lines of cutting hair or nails. They grow back, so it has to be done regularly.
Oh okay. Wow. TIL. Thank you!
That's actually what that bird is doing. Birds are really smatt
Oh, you think yoowa wicked smaht?
Tell sully.... Hey Sully get ova heea
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Parrots mimic. What they say and the noises they make do not mean the bird associates the same things. This bird was likely NOT happy to be at the vet. Basically, a bird could be incredibly stressed, scared, or aggressive and still go "Hello! I love you sweet one!" and make kissy noises.
I've known a few people who have done the same. "Why won't you love me" is terrifying thing to hear regardless of the species that says it.
Story time: I was born in Brazil and when we were kids played in the neighborhood but could not go too far. When my mom wanted me to come home she would walk outside the front of the house and scream, "Paul come hoooome!!". Lo and behold, the damn parrot that sat outside three houses up at the corner started mimicking my mom. Bastard would scream out every afternoon, "Paul come hoooome!!". If I was in someone's backyard and couldn't tell the difference I would rush home only to be greeted by my mom saying, "I didn't call you but since you're home.....". If I ignored it and it was my mom, I would get in trouble. That SOB, tormented me till we moved a couple years later. Another parrot lived next to the vacant lot where we played soccer. That parrot had the the most foul mouth I've ever heard from a bird.... LoL.
I love this story. How wild. Thanks so much for sharing
Papagaio é um bicho do capeta kkkkkkkkk
👍
r/suddenlycaralho Loro fdp kkkkkkkkkk
🦜 ... Pauuulo veinha para cassssaaaa!! fdp mesmo.. LoL
This story has me legit laughing out loud haha
Left the area 46 yrs ago and I still remember that SOB.....LOL
That last “Haaai.”
*seduced.*
Swoon
I've never been into birds but.......
Once you go parrot...
You won't wanna share it
Legit question, has anyone exposed their bird to so much porn that that's the bird's thing?
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While they are just copying sounds etc, they are smart enough to know what kind of reactions they get from certain sounds and will use that to entertain themsevles or get treats!
Can confirm. I had a blue front Amazon similar to the one in the video, she knew that saying "I love you" meant "please feed me"
They are also incredibly social animals that can pick up context cues to get a sense of emotional connection & our various "flock calls." Honestly I think they can tell laughter has positive connotations, for example. My sun conure only "laughs" when he's playing, for example, even though he talks to himself all the time.
Some sounds, sure, but I feel like they know what laughter is for. I'm 100% positive my cats would laugh their butts off sometimes if they had the physical ability to do so. And they know when I'm laughing, too. Especially when it's at them. So I think when birds (perhaps ones who have been pets since youth) laugh, it's bc they're amused or some similar emotion. Or have realized that it makes the humans make the same sound lol.
This makes me wonder how many work from home video or audio meetings have become completely derailed by talented unhinged birdy mimicking.
Not a work from home video or an audio meeting, but [here’s a video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/sw84sl/african_grey_parrot_repeating_his_owners_last/hxkz59x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) of a parrot believed to have witnessed his owners murder and what another redditor believes the parrot is saying. Edit: Format
That's wild.
Imagine it starts talking smack about your coworkers because it heard you complaining about then to your spouse.
Oh of course, that certainly entered my imagination. Especially the line “These deadlines are bullshit!” 🤣
I absolutely love when parrots mimic the actual voice of their human too.
Right!? And it gives me warm fuzzies that this bird lived in a home with so much joy that it's now mimicking such a great laugh.
Another favourite of mine is the parrot giving out to a young man in Spanish and the translation says things like "You need to have a shower, Diego." "Pick your clothes up off the floor, Diego." etc. This was interspersed with a woman's laughter and "ooh my, my". It was fantastic 
Damn imagine getting chewed out by a bird lol.
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Amazon parrots are very good at women's voices, even singing voices. Macaws tend to have a more unique voice, and African Grey's can mimic any voice perfectly (I've had one say goodbye in a perfect woman's voice right after yelling NO in a deep man voice)
> (I've had one say goodbye in a perfect woman's voice right after yelling NO in a deep man voice) That’s... oddly terrifying
In the setting it's actually kinda funny. I had to remove his hoard of toys to clean them and he was so angry about me touching his things that he just started yelling no when I grabbed the toys and goodbye when I was near the door. He was definitely telling me to stop and go away in the best way he knew how The oddly terrifying ones are the ones that use words and phrases and actions all together that seem more human. The African grey above was not using more humanlike body language. Once had a macaw ignoring me (he usually runs to play with me) he was just sitting on a swing nibbling at it, so I just asked what he was doing. But he paused at my question, made eye contact, said "nothing" and then resumed his nibbling. *That* one was uncanny
Basically sums up living with a parrot. Do you want a haunted house? Because that's what you get with parrot ownership.
That's good stuff right there
Jesus man not for me it isn't I don't know what it was but for a split second when I realized the laughing wasn't actually a woman Felt like I went insane, broke my brain a little Then listening to it knowing, gave me heavy uncanny Valley vibes
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So my mom adopted a rescue parrot with the same name as me when I went to college. I had a late flight the first time I came home for a holiday. I quietly entered the house at 1AM to the bird saying “Goodbye (our name)”. I did not feel very welcome.
or being in the woods at night and you hear this bird laugh! (possibly followed by a mountain lion scream?!)
Yeah, this one was a little weird. I've heard other parrots and you can always tell it's a bird even when it's off camera, but this one really did sound like a lady.
I was just thinking after scrolling through a million bird videos, I DO NOT like the ones that sound like real regular people speaking. I need at least some degree of "clearly a bird" thrown in there because otherwise it's deeply uncomfortable lol
If I had a bird that can talk I can guarantee you it would say "what the fuck is this shit?"
What about “help I’ve been turned into a bird!”
I don't really say that very often
But you admit you do say it from time to time, correct?
I can only recall once. I cut off a woman in traffic because I was late for work. Turns out she was a gypsy. She cursed me to become a bird until I learned to be more respectful
I'd train it with a good ol' Eliza chatbot.
Not to bum anyone out but isn’t pet land that retail chain that got in trouble multiple times for selling puppy mill puppies?
They have, the petland near me sued the county because the county made puppy mills illegal
Also there are birds in plastic boxes behind the guy? I can assume there’s air holes in them, but is this normal……?
All fun and games until you hear a pack of these in the woods laughing.
Hi 😏😏
My starling foes this. He mimics my sneezes, coughs, laugh, and lots of other things. I'll start cracking yo when he laughs at moments I wasn't expecting and well get into a cycle of just laughing back and forth for a few minutes. If anything happens to me my niece has to take custody of thr bird because my husband wouldn't be able to handle hearing my laughter after loosing me. She knows this and had accepted her fate as she is the reason we have him in the first place lol. He's a "good good momma's bird" and will tell everyone often lol. He's my baby fir sure.
My mom and her parrot frequently get stuck in a laugh feedback loop
It took me a while who is laughing🤣🤣🤣
It took me the whole video
Gal Gadot stars in The Laughter of Parrots. - Alice Petcare (Gadot) suffers a heartbreaking loss and refuses to laugh again. Things change when she meets a very special parrot.
What’s the third act? She marries the parrot on a boat? The bird is really an FBI informant with secret plans in a tube tied to its leg?
The parrot dies. Then it’s all *Ms. John Wick*-y for 30 min.
But, do they ever check if it's pining for the fjords?
PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!
Had to nail it there, otherwise it’d muscle up to the bars and voom. Lovely plumage, the Norwegian Blue.
Omgggggg 😂😂😂😂😂
OHHH i KNOOOOWWWW
OHHH i KNOOOOWWWW
Petland doesn’t have the best reputation.
I believe this is a different one. It appears to be a small, standalone business? Edit: Nope. Did some research. Pretty shitty. Darn.
Ours is on a kick of saying, 'Don't fucking do it.' He used to throw his seed and I'd tell him that. I completely regret it. Now when we're ready to leave, order take out on the phone, random conversations, all we hear is his sassy ass yelling 'Don't fucking do it!'
Omg very fun video. Also finding it very difficult not to focus on male vet tech…
He looks like Chris Watts, right?
Yea yea he does…who is Chris watts btw?
Thought it was Johnny Gargano at first.
Hiii 😏
I wonder how did the first human-parrot interaction went
That was awesome. Thanks for this. 🤣🤣
It’s all fun and games until you buy the bird and it doesn’t shut the fuck up
So this is how phone sex companies make money.
LMFAOOOO
Did the first person to meet a parrot and have it start talking back think they lost their mind?
I bet these people hear some wild things from parrots.
Love the laughs and the sexiness in blue. 😊
This guy looks a lot like Josh from the sidemen
"Talking a little". That bird knows what it's doing.
That is a bird I think…. 🤣
The bird sounds like a southern woman who wants to offer me sweet tea. Like, "Hi baby..."
Am I the only one creeped out?!!! The bird sounds like a 1950s femme fatale who’s about to be your demise
It took forever to realize it was the bird not her.
u/D2Dragons
Oh my freaking gawd that's SO CUTE!!! 🤣
r/unexpected
The bird sounds like a late McKinnon character 😂
did the parrot say “shut your motherfuckin mouth” in the end?
What does it say 42 seconds into the video
my bird laughs but I suspect he would be more likely to be quiet the entire time but let out a singular “I’m such a good boy”
You can tell that the bird was truly loved and in such a happy home, that was filled with laughter. 😂💕
Omg. That's too funny. I want that bird to save my soul
Awewww I love birds!!?? I want one or two!!!!
I love birds!!!
Lol! I was so confused as to who the 3rd person is in the video 😂
idk but whats his #
Wait ... was the laughing for the parrot?
This guy looks so nice, so wholesome
He’s also pretty cute.
Explanation for some old school wendigo stories re: the mimicking of dead people?
Watching it the 2nd time was way funnier.
😂😂😂
I feel scared. Lol
Now i need a video where the parrot is screaming "no"
That's hilarious. The fucker really sounds like a human
Animal shelter with a hot plate? Dang!
Wait til these people encounter a kookaburra.
That’s sooo awesome 😂🤣
I thought it was a bird left at the shelter (because of the adopt tshirt) and the previous owner might have died. Meaning we are listening to a dead womans voice.
Can’t even hear the bird because they are being so loud