Talkative Crow
PORT ELIZABEJ' A talented young bird, wh! i at 11 months, has a larger v< ' abulary than any human of '« same age, is attracting scores, visitors daily to his home in Bi street, Port Elizabeth. He greets them with a P 1 Hello, there,” and sees them their way with “Bye, croaked from his favourite P* r ' in a tree near the gate. He Johnnie, a talking pied orrrial"l l " crow. His vocabulary Includes w® ? learnt from his favourite raj * announcer. He sleeps inside 1 ‘ owner’s caravan and wakes th ' regularly every morning at 1 a.m. He eats 30s worth of rf meat a month. The food he not eat he buries. He wan*’ about the caravan all day wW peculiar half-flytag, half-waft* gait He does not attempt ttyk away. t
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29170, 2 April 1960, Page 10
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