Is the general knowledge that the parrot can imitate human language – remember when Winston Churchill taught his macaw to curse Hitler? Starlings and Mockingbirds are also known to mimic the sound they hear around them. Duck, however, is usually known for a shaman.

Apparently, some ducks could also learn to imitate the sounds, as long as they heard it when they were still a hatchlings. A duck musk in Australia named Ripper just shot to Stardom because of his ability to imitate the sound of the closing door and indifferently call someone “stupid”.

Ripper grew up in captivity in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near the Australian capital in the 1980s and recording of its vocal abilities made by Aussie scientists who are now retired Peter J Fullagar. It has been theorized that the Ripper learned how to say “You Bloody Fool” from the previous guard at the facility.

Carel ten cate biologists from Leiden University in the Netherlands, who studied vocal abilities in birds, found the story of the ripper and tracked Fulagar to ensure the stories were true.

Ripper’s vocal ability, after authentication, made it a paper published in philosophical transactions from the Royal Society B. According to ten notes and fullagar, vocal abilities in birds outside the parrots and singers rarely occur, which made a cursing and slamming door of the ripper unique. .

Aussi is hard

Ripper was not the only Aussie bird who could imitate the voice to hear it. Magpies – Specter of spring season below – can mimic human speech, like a general Mynah. And then there are ordinary suspects from the Parrot family – Galahs, Cockatoo and Corellas can also ‘talk’, some of them can say everything clearly.

The parrot king can be trained to mimic sound when grew up in captivity, while Budgerigar is known as talks too.

Lyrebird Australia is also a great Mimicker, made famous in several natural documentaries Sir David Attenborough. Lyrebirds are so skilled, they are able to mimic machine saws, other animals and even human speeches. Just look at what Gemo, the extraordinary Lyrebird at the Taronga Sydney zoo can do it, as reported by colleagues on LiveScience.