People Share Memes That Provide an Amusing Perspective on History

Just think how you’d feel if your dog suddenly looked at you and started speaking. That has to be the same level of shock that the first parrot induced. What I wouldn’t give to know the first word a parrot said, though. I’ve heard of some very dirty-minded parrots.

It was probably something mundane like “land ahoy,” or maybe I’m just assuming pirates and shipmates were the most likely to have pet parrots. In all honesty, the first record of a speaking bird was most likely a plum-headed parakeet. Its name was Bitticus, and it lived in the 5th century BC, owned by Ctesias, a Greek physician and historian.