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That's crazy...imagine having that thing in your house and it starts spouting off random stuff in the middle of the night!

Awesome, those African Gray's are amazing birds. They can learn hundreds of sounds, many after hearing only once. A friend of mine had one that did a toilet flushing perfectly .

Great find Barry. They have great personalities, a little high strung though. We had one, Pepper. What a funny SOB. We taught him to say my mothers name. He tortured her.

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A friend of mine used to date a girl whose family owned a pet store, and they had several animals in the house. They had a few dogs, a cat, and an African Grey Parrot.

The Parrot had learned how to immitate her mother's voice, and had learned the names of all the other animals. So he used to torture the other animals by calling them. They would come looking for mother, although she was not home, or if she was she had not called them. He would then laugh at them.

She also told me that they had to move one of the telephones out of the living room (where his cage was) because he had learned to immitate the telephone sound, and then when you would pick up to answer, he would yell "hello hello hello" and then laugh at you.

Pretty funny birds they are.... But it is amazing how smart they really are. Most people seeing this video would assume that they can simply be trained to say things at certain times or on command. But they actually have very good comprehension. You could have an actual conversation with this bird. It kind of felt like you were talking to a 3 year old kid, but you could ask questions and get real answers.

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We have a Congo African Grey named CoCo that is about 3 years old now and continues to learn new words & sounds all the time. He mostly does cell phone ring tones, the microwave beeping, car or house alarm, or mimics the other birds we have but his human voice impressions continue to improve as well.

He makes my wife run for her cellphone on a regular basis, which is pretty funny.

Einstein is an amazing parrot for sure. Perhaps the most famous Grey though is Alex, who passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 31, which is quite young for a Grey. Alex could identify 50 different objects, seven colors and five shapes. He could also count to six, including zero. He was working on seven and eight recently.

http://www.alexfoundation.org/alex.htm

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Nice clip Barry. Don't have any parrott experience, but thanks for sharing

I have an African Grey, it is a lot of fun, but can be extremely annoying...especially the 6am wake-up calls, yelling my name

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I thought for sure some was gonna say the woman was a ventriloquist.

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