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Outliving Their Owners, Parrots Face a Hidden Battle with Grief

Humans are not the only creatures that experience grief. Elephants, orcas, primates, dogs, and cats have all shown the ...

The Smartest Parrots on Earth Might Rival Our Own Intelligence

Parrots are gorgeous birds that are just as smart as they are pretty. Parrots are ranked as some of the most intelligent ...
Los Angeles Times

Are L.A.’s parrots getting louder? We investigate

That the parrots of Los Angeles are loud is an indisputable fact. The voluble squawks, warbles and trills of the colorful non-native birds (descendants of those originally imported from Mexico as pets ...
Forbes

Caribbean Parrots Are Remnants Of A Millennial Scale Extinction

The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two species — the Cuban (Amazona leucocephala; upper) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis; lower) parrots — for ...
Forbes

Companion Parrots May Be Less Lonely When They Phone Their Feathered Friends

A new study has found that pet parrots that make video calls to other parrots show signs of feeling less isolated Ellie, an 11-year-old Goffin's cockatoo, learns to make a video phone call to a ...
Los Angeles Times

There’s Owning a Bird and Then There’s Owning a Parrot. Here’s What You Need to Know.

So you’ve decided that owning a bird is going to be the next step of your pet journey. You went to that mom-and-pop pet store and gazed upon the wide variety of birds. Among the canaries and finches ...
USA Today

These parrots can video call each other. It shows benefits of virtual bird friendships, researchers say.

Like humans, pet parrots can benefit from virtual connection with their peers. Last week, researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Glasgow and MIT announced their new study, which ...