The small town of North Rustico lies on the northern shore of Prince Edward Island in Canada, where neighbors are always sure to greet one another as they go about their day. And that sense of warmth is likely to spread to and affect others.
One day a few months back, local resident Lisa Sandoval was walking near the water front when she heard somebody speak to her. “I heard someone call out to me, ‘Hello! Hello!” Sandoval recalled. “I turned around and no one was there. Then I heard the voice again. ‘Hello! Hello!’ I got a little scared, then thought to myself, ‘Am I hearing things?’” It was then that Sandoval noticed the only other living thing around was a crow (乌鸦) nearby. “I stopped and said, ‘Hello?’” Sandoval continued. “And to my shock, he answered me back. ‘Hello! Hello!’”
Sandoval later came to learn that she wasn’t the only one in town to have met the talking crow. Rumor (谣言) has it, years earlier, the bird had been found hurt as a baby and nursed back to health by an elderly man living nearby, who often spoke to him. “He let the crow go free when he was well,” Sandoval said. “That bird had learned to say hello.”
A few months after their initial meeting, Sandoval met the talking crow yet again. Sandoval calls him the Hello Crow.
Crows can learn to mimic human language. So, if the rumors of his story are true, his vocalizations (发声) may very well reflect the voice of the elderly man who’d saved him.
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