From Hello to Hola!

With all of the bad news out there lately (Ebola anyone??), I was happy to see an actual bit of good news on the Internet today. A British man living in California who lost his African parrot four years ago was reunited with the bird recently. Apparently, he'd fitted the bird with a microchip and someone discovered that chip and returned the bird to its proper owner. The British owner had trained the bird to speak English that the parrot spoke with a British accent. However, when the bird came back after his four-year absence, he spoke Spanish rather than the British-accented English he used to speak. Clearly, this bird had been taken care of by someone who spoke Spanish and picked that language up during his disappearance. (The parrot also, unfortunately, bit his former owner when returned to his care.) I'm glad the owner was reunited with his parrot, but I wonder if the bird will eventually switch back to English and drop the Spanish he picked up.