Telephone for bird! was Cosmo’s first joke. Before she could talk, when the phone would ring, I would shout Telephone! for her benefit and then pick up the receiver. After Cosmo found out that I was BJean, she would joyfully announce Telephone for BJean at the top of her little lungs when the phone would ring or when shed mimic the phones ring—Rrrring!
– Excerpted from Betty Jean Craige, Conversations with Cosmo, due out in print April 20, 2010. (Amazon.com)
10 replies to "African Grey Cosmo plays “Telephone”"
She is just too CUTE!! Rio hasn't quite got the phone ring yet!! Wish I could up load her photo!!
I have to ask? Where did you get cosmo
lol…"Telephone for bird!"
Good thing your answering machine didn't have the area code, otherwise people might be teaching Cosmo some new words!
Well, it's been nine months.
Did you get a hold of her? Did she have a wang?
This is my favorite video. Cosmo wanna go to bed. Nooooo. In my house its the bird that at 9:00pm starts telling us that its bedtime. "I'm going. What time is it. Its bedtime……and so on." Cosmo is such a sweetie. She speaks very clearly.
I swear , for the first minute i was like –when's the parrot gonna talk? I thought the voice was someone off camera, then i realized no, that's the bird! Her voice sounds so human-like. I'm halfway through your book and loving it, btw. "telephone for bird!" 🙂
Cosmo is awesome – her laugh is just brilliant, and I'll bet she sounds just like you, because she doesn't sound like a bird!! Thanks for sharing.
This is just adorable!! 😀 I love the part when Cosmo says "you've reached…" and the wrong numbers, then laughs, then says the right numbers! xD Our CAG Malaika will joke by saying: "What does the dog do?" then miaow like a cat before the typical "he he he" laugh, because she knows that she said wrong! :p
Cosmo is amazing and so very precious.