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In a twist of avian audacity, a British wildlife park has found itself grappling with a feathered problem: foul-mouthed parrots. These mischievous parrots—specifically, African gray parrots—have been ...

A British zoo has removed a group of parrots from public view because the birds kept letting the cuss words fly. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park said they moved the five African gray parrots into ...

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The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park will integrate its eight foul-mouthed African grey parrots into the main flock to hopefully 'dilute' their swearing. Reading time 2 minutes The Lincolnshire Wildlife ...

The U.K.’s Lincolnshire Wildlife Park is reintegrating five particularly foul-mouthed African grey parrots, according to the BBC. Billy, Tyson, Eric, Jade, and Elsie have been separated from the rest ...

A group of five swearing parrots continues to spew "naughty" words at a wildlife park in England -- and people apparently can't get enough of the "fowl" language. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --Officials at a British zoo said a plan to curb the rude habits of their famously potty-mouthed parrots is showing some promising early results. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park said in ...

Five parrots have been removed from public view at a British wildlife park after they started swearing at customers. The foul-mouthed birds were split up after they launched a number of different ...

A wildlife park outside London known for its singing parrot has a problem on its hands. Well, five other parrots at the wildlife park have had to be separated... because they curse and were ...

African grey parrots are able to mimic all sorts of sounds, including the human voice, whatever those voices say, which can sometimes be a little salty. Parrots at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in ...

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