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A video of a scarlet macaw reacting to a woman cutting a parrot cake has gone viral, receiving over 91 million views

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A parrot's squawking reaction to watching a realistic macaw cake get cut is captivating social media users, but is the footage real?

The clip , posted Oct. 23 by TikTok account @parrot_mimzo, has over 91 million views and 2 million comments. In the video, a scarlet macaw, presumably Mizmo, watches as a woman pushes a large knife through a lifelike bird cake, and he reacts by screeching and spreading his wings.

"Mimzo's reaction when she cuts the parrot cake," reads the post's caption. The parr

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