“I want to see Peaches the foul mouthed fowl and Kobe the poop throwing chimp.”

Jessica Price can’t win. Price is the senior zookeeper at an animal sanctuary 30 miles north of Fort Wayne, IN. It all started when a chimpanzee threw feces at a construction worker at the zoo. It hit him in the face and Peaches, the cockatoo, laughed. “She started laughing and carrying on,” Price said. Unfortunately, the worker responded with some choice words. Peaches learned quickly and started repeating, “Go away,” “shut up,” and “shut your f#*kin’ mouth.” According to Price, “She says a lot of very bad words. It is difficult to get birds to stop using words they have learned. We obviously don’t repeat them.” Jessica was immediately concerned that the zoo's attendance would plummet. But this bird's language isn't keeping people away from the zoo, in fact, it's bringing more people to the zoo. Jessica Price says, "We had several people come in and say I want to see Peaches the foul mouthed fowl and Kobe the poop throwing chimp. We don’t encourage it.”