The parrot:-

A parrot kept at the Sandside Mission to Seamen in Scarborough talked vigorously until the morning of Wednesday 16th December 1914. That day, at eight o'clock, German warships began the bombardment of Scarborough.
The parrot never spoke again.

20th century

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