FUNNY: Bird mimics former owners' arguments

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Friday, February 13, 2015
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What led one North Carolina couple's marriage to fall apart? A former pet's amusing habit may hold some clues.

Peaches the Moluccan Cockatoo loves to repeat the arguments that her previous owners had with each other. The couple from the arguments has since split, ABC News reports.

(Warning: If you can actually understand Peaches' jibberish, you might catch some four letter words.)

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In a video going viral, Peaches animatedly channels the former couple, squawking out the mean-spirited jabs they once shouted at each other.

"None of this is on demand," Peaches' current owner, Elaine Sigmon, told ABC News. "She just says it when she wants to."

Peaches is reenacting an old marital spat, Sigmon told ABC News she learned from the dog breeder who sold her Peaches. That marriage ended, the breeder told her.

Sigmon, who has 12 grandchildren and has been married to her husband for 41 years, emphasized that Peaches has learned tamer phrases since joining her family about six weeks ago.

Since the Sigmons went public with their pet's funny ways, Peaches has become an online sensation, with more than 1 million views on her YouTube video.

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