Alexa, Polly want a cracker! Meet the parrot that makes Amazon Echo buy him fruit

Rocco, an African grey parrot, is having a love affair with Amazon's Alexa. He's been chatting her up the whole day, says his owner, and even manages to order stuff that the owner then has to check and cancel each day, reports The Times.

The African grey population is dwindling precisely because they imitate human speech so well and people love to use them as pets. Rocco got bumped from a National Animal Welfare Trust sanctuary for swearing too much, landing him with his current owner. According to her:

He knows the telephone ...