Parrots

Parrots are tropical birds with bright, colorful plumage. They are known for having a gift for mimicry, giving rise to the phrase "to parrot someone", meaning to imitate them. In fiction, parrots have been classically used as a favored pet of pirates.

Examples

 * Eight Legged Freaks: In the 2002 "creature feature" film Eight Legged Freaks, an entomologist named Joshua Taft kept a male parrot as a pet at Taft's Exotic Spider Farm. The parrot had a habit of quoting the line "I see dead people" from the 1999 film The Sixth Sense. Taft unwittingly fed his spiders some crickets that had been exposed to toxic waste. As such, they grew into huge predatory creatures and killed Taft, wrapping him up inside of a cocoon. A jumping spider than leaped upon the parrot, killing it as well.