Language Barrier

Foul-Mouthed Bird Is Cocky Too

People in Indiana are being careful about their language around an eight-year-old named Peaches who has a habit of learning and repeating the worst she hears. Peaches is a Moluccan cockatoo, and staffers at Black Pine Animal Park say she used to be a pet in a household where she picked up a vocabulary that can be as colourful as her feathers. The bird didn't miss anything when a volunteer construction worker started cussing recently, said Jessica Price, senior zookeeper at the sanctuary, about 30 miles north of Fort Wayne. "She started laughing and carrying on," Price said.