Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Swearing parrots in a line-up at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park When staff at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park noticed an outbreak of swearing among five of their African grey parrots in 2020, they segregated ...

Zoos aren’t typically a den of vulgarity. Anyone who is angry when they arrive usually feels better after a trip to the monkey exhibit. Plus, everyone knows there are lots of kids hanging around.

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in Britain adopted five parrots and kept them quarantined in the same room where park officials soon found them all swearing and laughing “like an old men’s club.” The ...

Five African grey parrots at a wildlife park in London have found themselves in isolation from each other after they were swearing at park visitors. According to CNN, the birds were donated to ...

These zoo parrots' potty mouths got them relocated. At the British zoo Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre, keeping some of the bird residents' vocabulary limited to G-rated language has proven challenging - ...

A wildlife park fed up with its “infamous swearing parrots” is transferring them to a bigger flock in the hope of curbing their habit – but it comes with a risk. The decision was taken by the ...

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park received the five African grey parrots back in August and quarantined them together in the same room, Lincolnshire Live reported. However, the close proximity seemed to have ...

FRISKNEY, England – A wildlife park in England says it had to remove five parrots from public display because they started swearing at guests. The BBC reports that Lincolnshire Wildlife Park adopted ...