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Some aquarium buddies are much more interactive than you'd expect—they follow their owners around, beg for food, and even ...
Jewel cichlids, also referred to as red cichlid ... The last best tank mate for Oscars on our list is the blood parrot which does not have a scientific name. Blood parrots are man-made species ...
When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cleveland woman is in a battle to reunite with her beloved parrot of 10 years after she says her own family gave the bird away to the Cleveland Animal Protective League ...
They also show a range of behaviors, from complex songs to vocal mimicry to whatever it is that you want to call what parrots do. Thanks to a newly released study, however, we now have evidence ...
Why do some animals solve problems while others don’t? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, now featured on the cover of Oikos, tackles this question with an ...
"Bilbies, kowaris — which are these little marsupial mice — and the night parrot, which is pretty elusive," Desert Channels Queensland program manager Geoff Penton said. The conservation group ...
Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in ...
Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...