A customer's parrot learned to mimic our alarm siren

I was doing a final walkthrough when the parrot squawked the exact tone of our entry delay beep. The homeowner freaked out, thinking the system was arming itself (which would be weird, right). We spent ten minutes figuring out it was just the bird practicing. I had to show them how to adjust the siren volume, just in case. Now I joke about adding 'pet training' to my service list.

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shane_carr4mo ago

Parrots are way smarter than I gave them credit for, learning alarms and everything.

olivia_anderson4mo ago

My neighbor's African grey learned their microwave beep perfectly. It even started copying my neighbor's sarcastic laugh, which was kind of creepy. Seeing that up close totally changed how I see bird intelligence.

sean11916d ago

That part about the sarcastic laugh really got me. My sister's cockatoo picked up the exact tone she uses when she says "oh, great" after something annoying. It was spooky how accurate it was. It even learned the sound of her car locking from down the street and would do it perfectly when it wanted her to come back inside. I had no idea birds could be that precise with sounds until I heard it for myself. Really makes you wonder what else they're picking up from us.