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[โ€“] dave@feddit.uk 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure I remember a similar story about someone very excited to get a response each night, and eventually they followed the return call, it got louder and louder, and eventually they saw some other idiot hooting like an owl through the trees.

[โ€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

my own mother went to a bird sanctuary recently and was talking to a talking Parrot who mirrored her perfectly... until she realized it was someone on the other side of the cage