Parrots Removed From UK Wildlife Park For Swearing At Customers
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A group of parrots at a zoo have been temporarily removed from public display after swearing at customers.
The group of five African grey parrots were adopted by Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in August and were put in a room together to isolate.
During their quarantine, zoo officials believe they used their time to teach each other profanities, which they quickly tested out on visitors when the zoo reopened.
Steve Nichols, CEO at the Friskney Park, said the birds have since been temporarily removed for a "time out" while they continue to scream profanities at guests.
"Every now and then you'll get one that swears and it's always funny. We always find it very comical when they do swear at you," he said to LincolnshireLive.
"The more they swear the more you usually laugh which then triggers them to swear again."
Nichols explained that as the birds were all adopted at the same time and were locked in a room together with nothing else to do, what emerged was a "full of swearing birds".
Apparently within 20 minutes of the birds being on display to the public, there were reports of them shouting swear words.
"We found it highly amusing and the customers were fine - they were no problem at all," Mr Nichols explained.
"But we worried because we had a weekend coming up and children coming."
The zookeeper said that with 25 years experience in working with parrots, he's used to birds have "sometimes had a bit of blue language".
The African greys were removed from display and put in an off-shore enclosure in the hopes that socialising with other birds will influence them and knock out the foul language.
The plan is to eventually release the parrots into different enclosures so they can't be bad influences on one another.