With plumage of intense and other-worldly colors, deployable regal crests, and behavior that ranges from coy to maniacal, parrots have little trouble attracting our attention. But what traits fare ...
Why can some birds mimic sounds with enough complexity to imitate human speech, while other birds simply chirp? A new study in the journal PLOS ONE finds that parrots’ ability to learn and imitate new ...
Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...
There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies have shown that animals are also capable of intransitive ...
Dear Steve: I was delighted by and enthralled by the movie Paulie, and so was my 13-year-old son. I understand Paulie is a conure. Do conures make good pets? _ T.C., Orlando Dear T.C.: Conures can ...
Q–I was delighted by and enthralled by the movie “Paulie,” and so was my 13-year-old son. I understand Paulie is a conure. Do conures make good pets? Can you tell me a little about them? –Orlando ...
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