Parrots aren't just able to talk, they've been known to show human like intelligence
en.m.wikipedia.org
The myths and legends in Africa about them must be crazy. Imagine being one of the first people walking around thinking you're hearing another person talking in the forest and then when you go to investigate you see a fukking bird. Staring at you like "where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going?!?!"
And that shyt stays in that forest for over 40 years because they live a long ass time too. People think it's jokes but parrots need a lot of socializing because they can get aggressive if they don't. The first person to tame one of them must have been one cold mothafukka