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Not such pretty pollys! Five foul-mouthed parrots have to be separated after encouraging each other to swear in zoo The parrots joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre’s 200 grey parrots in August Parrots Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie have been distributed to different areas There were no complaints but the birds were separated for sake of young … Read more
Bird-brained: Parrots and crows have evolved ‘truly exceptional’ brain sizes while pigeons and emus have the same brain-to-body ratio as dinosaurs did 66 million years ago Birds and dinosaurs had similar brain sizes around 66million years ago After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs birds evolved relatively bigger brains Body size of some birds got … Read more
Today, I had been planning to turn the tables on Barry Cryer. Every month, Barry presides over an Oldie magazine readers’ lunch at Simpson’s in the Strand, introducing each speaker with a limerick. If you’re lucky, he may even tell one of his parrot jokes, such as this one. A man goes into a pub … Read more
Parrots are capable of understanding and acting on the balance of probabilities to predict future events ‘just like humans’, a new study claims. Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand worked with a kea parrot and found she could combine data and predict uncertain future events. The grasp of statistics was thought to be … Read more