my parrot has learned how to say “shhh” from listening to me shooshing him, so now when he’s being loud and naughty and I try to shoosh him he yells it back and we angrily shoosh each other for a good minute, neither wanting to back down
one of my favorite tropes of all time is when the author tries to replace curse words with a more ‘family friendly’ alternative or invent new words for worldbuilding purposes but they use existing words that make the whole thing unintentionally hilarious out of context
I think my favorite thing about pigeons is that they don’t really sleep like other birds? I haven’t seen them rest their heads on their backs? instead they kinda