“As sick as a parrot” is a mystifying phrase

09 October 2016 - 02:00
By Sue de Groot

It has been a good week for the African Grey Parrot, or at least for those of them that are left in the wild. Now that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has banned the buying and selling of this chatty bird, those who would keep parrots will have to learn to use the voice memo function on their smartphones.

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