A tourist posted a video online to share his experience of being cursed at by a parrot in the Yunnan Wildlife Park, Southwest China's Yunnan Province on August 28, 2022. Screenshot of Jingwei Video

A tourist posted a video online to share his experience of being cursed at by a parrot in the Yunnan Wildlife Park, Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday. In the video, the tourist asked the parrot to say something, but the African grey parrot used a swear word to respond. The park's staff member said this parrot's name is "little grey," and it is very smart. The parrot knew some easy words like "hello," but some tourists would teach it bad words. Sometimes the bird might also learn the words when tourists were swearing in front of it.

The staff member said that the parrot will be taught not to say those dirty words and guided to talk politely.

This is not the only case that African grey parrots swear at visitors. 

According to BBC, in August 2020, five grey parrots at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in Friskney, the UK, were removed from public display and moved into different colonies after they started cursing visitors. Some Chinese netizens joked that "luckily the tourists didn't scold the parrot back; otherwise, it will learn more swearwords and be able to quarrel with people over time."