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The parrot shouted "Mom, police!" in Portuguese as police approached the property of drug traffickers, authorities said. File / AFP
Brazilian police arrested a parrot belonging to drug traffickers, who had been trained to inform his owners of the imminent searches.
The bird had been taught to alert crack dealers specialized in police operations by repeatedly shouting, "Mamãe, polícia!" – in Portuguese for "Mum, police!"
According to The Guardian, the police of the Brazilian state of Piaui believes that the "bird" must have been trained for it "- so to interfere in the raids of the police in crack burrows.
The parrot, who was not named, was reportedly met by the authorities as they approached the one-storey dealer's house, where he was perched on a windowless facade.
"As soon as the police arrived nearby, he started screaming," said the officer.
Since seizing Monday afternoon local time, the parrot has kept the beak closed, reported a journalist from the Brazilian Globo press chain, who has found himself face to face with the lime green bird.
"So far, he has not made any noise … completely silent," said the reporter, describing the animal as "super obedient."
A local veterinarian called to examine the animal confirmed that the parrot was not cooperating: "Many police officers are gone and he did not say anything," he told the TV channel.
The parrot is not the first of its kind to be used by drug traffickers as watchers.
In Colombia, in 2010, a parrot named Lorenzo was registered by the police shouting "Run! Run! "In Spanish before the police discovered that the animal was guarding a large stock of firearms and marijuana, reported the Associated Press at the time.
"You could say that he was a kind of watchman," said a Colombian officer at the press briefing.
The parrot is also not the first exotic animal involved in drug trafficking in Brazil, according to The Guardian.
In 2008, police seized two alligators during a raid that, according to police, had been used by local gangsters to eat the bodies of their enemies.
The father of one of the defendants, however, rejected the allegation, claiming that his son's band had only tried to feed a corpse but that the latter had refused to eat it.
Agencies
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