The parrot that screams: kra, kra, kra, was once a boy and loved to eat. He was terribly gluttonous, and he had a bad habit of swallowing food without chewing.
One day, the mother took mangaba fruits and began to fry them in hot ashes. The son saw and grabbed one mangaba straight from the fire and immediately began to eat. Mangaba's flesh is sticky and retains heat for a long time. And the boy grabbed it right out of the fire, so that he immediately burned his entire throat, began to choke, scream and cough: kra, kra, kra... trying to spit out this hot mangaba. But he’s already swallowed it, so how can you spit it out? So he wheezed: kra, kra, kra, until he grew wings and paws, like a parrot. And he turned into a parrot, and now, when you walk through the forest, you can hear him screaming: kra, kra, kra.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru