Parrots: The FWS is weakening the protections for certain parrots.
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Parrots: The Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying protections for parrots.
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When a mother wants some parrots, she's going to get some parrots.
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Small, medium and large parrots flew by — brown-throated parakeets, yellow-headed parrots, and chestnut-fronted macaws.
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The agency estimates their are more than 10,85033 scarlet-chested parrots and 20,000 turquoise parrots living in Australia.
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A recent DNA analysis showed that parrots were closely related to falcons, a finding that dovetails with field studies of parrots' often merciless dietary habits.
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One of the big types of animals that get a lot of pet trust activity are parrots, because parrots can live up to 100 years.
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The Thread RE: PARROTS Charles Siebert wrote about Serenity Park, a small sanctuary where damaged parrots and traumatized veterans provide care and therapy to one another.
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Had the researchers discovered that the parrots' play call encouraged other parrots to play along, or had they discovered the on-switch for some bizarre, unexplained ritual?
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There was this one tree on the property, and these green parrots, and every night, when the sun was going down, all the parrots would go to the tree.
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Why are parrots able to speak, but other animals can't?
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And why do the parrots eat from the coconut palms?
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These are baby kākāpōs, the fattest parrots in the world.
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Turns out, most parrots know not to eat chocolate already.
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Her best guess is that the parrots are planning ahead.
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We're told all of the parrots and toucans also survived.
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But the bones were much larger than most parrots' tibiotarsi.
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But parrots don't seem to have a problem at all.
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But parrots can also be noisy, needy, destructive and temperamental.
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The two are species of parrots that don't normally mate.
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The humor that VetTV parrots emboldens discriminatory and backwards attitudes.
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She said that the authors mention other parrots can dance, too, and Schachner would like to see measurements of these other parrots' behavior to determine how common dancing really is and across which species.
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This is another fascinating example of convergence between parrots and primates.
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This has allowed the president-elect to nominate patriots, not parrots.
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Parrots were kept as pets and their feathers were highly prized.
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Related: This Artist Gave Colorful Parrots Elegant Legs, Because Why Not?
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However, the helmet effectively parrots the droid sounds from the movie.
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But parrots are supposed to, well, parrot — and elephants are not.
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Red-crowned parrots established sizable wild populations in Florida and California.
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How have monk parrots adapted to living in the city environment?
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Nor is she smart and cunning like some parrots and crows.
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From coast to coast, parrots were passing pathogens to their owners.
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Chimps, parrots, rooks and elephants have all succeeded at the task.
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Maybe figuring out the communication of parrots does nothing for us.
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Let's hear from our constructors: Can't leave parrots alone, can we?
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She had trained the parrots to exchange metal tokens for treats.
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But the parrots also helped others they weren't as close with.
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Now, scientists have found African grey parrots also exhibit altruistic behavior.
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"Spices and lentils, parrots and pigeons — that isn't heritage," he said.
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It's tropical—there are crazy numbers of scorpions, parrots, and monkeys.
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Barry Miles Belgorod, M.D.New York Parrots TO THE EDITOR: Re "Parrots Are a Lot More Than 'Pretty Bird,'" (March 22): Having lived in Venezuela for many years, I had close contact with these uniquely beautiful creatures.
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Some clients have ducks, chickens, parrots, tortoises, and all kinds of rodents.
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MODERN African pirates prefer machetes, machineguns and ransoms to cutlasses and parrots.
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Patrons converse over the squawking of pet parrots and wails of babies.
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Yet the connection between the people and the parrots is convincingly portrayed.
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Colin Brant paints a peaceable kingdom of leopards, orangutans, owls, and parrots.
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Polly gets chopped vegetables, because parrots need a diverse array of nutrients.
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His parrots display plumage, fashion, and intelligence, mixed with aristocratic unself-consciousness.
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Other parrots, like the kea in New Zealand, have similarly carnivorous tendencies.
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My husband's parrots, all rescues, live in our hall closet turned aviary.
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My husband's parrots, all rescues, live in our hall closet turned aviary.
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The resort looks super chill ... judging by the demeanor of the parrots.
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I stood and watched the parrots at the PAMM for some time.
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"We found that African grey parrots voluntarily and spontaneously help familiar parrots to achieve a goal, without obvious immediate benefit to themselves," said study co-author Désirée Brucks, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany.
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A chatbot that looks for keywords and parrots back is a frustrating experience.
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For one thing, it would never leak secrets to the press (parrots notwithstanding).
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"Laughter is contagious among parrots," all the press people want me to say.
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While flamboyantly colored and smart, parrots are also mischievous, noisy, animated, and messy.
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"Awareness will be the turning point in saving wild parrots around the world."
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How many grocery store parrots does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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We've served families who had parakeets, parrots, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and chinchillas.
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I also take care of the eight lovebirds — the parrots — in the lobby.
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His neighbor had it even worse; his pet parrots were eaten by rats.
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"You want to see owls, kingfishers, parrots and orioles?" he asked our boys.
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"I'm making a ceramic birdcage with two parrots," she told us one day.
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It was the equivalent of waterfalls and parrots in my new terrible world.
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Honeybees join this short list that includes chimpanzees, African grey parrots and spiders.
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Fountains gurgled; parrots squawked; dogs barked on the other side of courtyard walls.
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They're animal rights advocates who probably don't even believe parrots should be domesticated.
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Inside were four parrots — two African Greys, a Cockatoo, and an Amazon parrot.
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The researchers note that density of humans and the minimum January temperature have the biggest impact on the diversity of naturalized parrots—which is why it shouldn't be surprising that southern Texas, southern Florida, and southern California have the most parrots.
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"Baseball and Parrots- a five-year-old's dream come true!" she captioned the shot.
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"Parrots are unusual because these complexities are coming together in their brains," he said.
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Slap-bang in the centre of Cybozu's headquarters are stuffed-toy monkeys and parrots.
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We give life care to parrots whose options for a home have been exhausted.
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She could be breeding zebras and parrots and all manner of cross-species abominations!
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"None of these lunatics [the parrots] can ever find anything wrong with a blueberry."
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But this doesn't explain the biggest question — what does it do for the parrots?
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AND FINALLY ... Hoop dreams It's all dunks all the time when parrots play basketball.
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An exception are the thick-billed parrots that share the habitat with the owls.
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But for the red-crowned parrots, Los Angeles is more than an additional habitat.
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Might the young scientist be interested in seeing a large colony of parrots instead?
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"It's extremely rare to find mimicry of other species in wild parrots," he said.
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Parrots are distinguished not only by their longevity, but also by their cognitive abilities.
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But improvements came too late for Mr. Salazar, the man whose parrots were eaten.
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Twice he's flown with parrots across the country to reunite them with their owners.
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Parrots don't fart, but they potentially can mimic the sound of human butt toots.
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He wears a tropical-theme surgical cap with parrots and green leaves on it.
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I spent many long hours in the company of the cats, parrots and monkey.
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J.J. parrots the TV show, and Lisa reaches over to touch her son's foot.
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So far it has hosted dogs, horses, cats, baby goats, parrots and a giant rat.
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Officials also confiscated thousands of live animals, including turtles in Malaysia and parrots in Mexico.
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Dogs, like dolphins, apes, and parrots, can learn a series of vocal commands — or words.
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But that doesn't mean Americans don't have plenty of opportunities to see free-flying parrots.
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In Cameroon, some consume the parrots for their meat while others keep them as pets.
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Facing the prospect of an election deprived of all credibility, the parrots changed their tune.
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We asked readers to show us why parrots are more than just a pretty bird.
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But it wasn't always the case that parrots were thought of favorably in The Times.
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CreditCreditJoel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark Juan F. Masello never intended to study wild parrots.
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What was left of "El Yunque," known for its waterfalls and endangered parrots, I wondered?
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The two bones include six unique features that only parrots have, which nails the identification.
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Someone opened the door of a cage to set Officer Tameem's two pet parrots free.
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A bird aficionado, he's been helping parrots and their owners for more than 20 years.
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These early parrots were more primitive than ones found in Australia and other areas today.
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Quick PSA: Parrots are very difficult pets and I don't recommend most people own them.
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We also opened a new parrot habitat for our six thick-billed parrots last month.
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We were listening to the parrots in their boxes in the next room chattering away.
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I reached out to parrot expert Marc Morrone, who is "Martha Stewart's pet expert" as well as a co-owner of Parrots of the World, a pet shop on Long Island, to see if he thought parrots of the world are now in danger.
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All alone now among the sanctuary's parrots, I got a sudden glimpse of a possible future.
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But none of these remains have presented archaeologists with more of a quandary than the parrots.
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But that was in about 1250, long after the parrots first turned up in Pueblo Bonito.
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Humans' war trauma and parrots' trauma from enslavement to humans are ultimately rooted in animal abuse.
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They sip vodka cokes through slim black straws, nodding to every beat like rugged tanned parrots.
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All of the parrots documented in this research, with two possible exceptions, descended from escaped pets.
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We see you all: the masc owls, the drag queen parrots, and even the heteroflexible parakeets.
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Einstein and Einstein are two different African grey parrots, both known for their impressive mimicry skills.
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Animals like parrots and songbirds have long gotten credit for copying human sounds and mastering melodies.
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"Penguins are one example, but (it is common in) parrots and doves as well," he said.
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The vocal capacity, too: parrots call to one another continually, squawkishly, over long distances and short.
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A 2015 BBC story outlines how this can happen to butterflies, parrots, snakes, lobsters, and more.
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We also told you some interesting things this year about parrots, donkeys, goldfish and even cats.
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"I had two parrots in the house and the rats ate them up," Mr. Salazar said.
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The group soon left for the restaurant, where colorful parrots in cowboy hats hung from rafters.
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Yet thousands of parrots of at least 10 different species have made the state their home.
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Throughout her lifetime, the monarch owned 18973 dogs in addition to Shetland ponies, goats, and parrots.
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But what Bik Van der Pol overlooked is that the parrots in Speechless are speechless, too.
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Under the indirect influence, and then the firsthand mentoring, of the master John James Audubon himself—they met on one of Audubon's fund-raising trips to Britain—the adolescent Lear had the brilliant idea of publishing a picture book about parrots, just parrots, and nothing but.
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Alligators bask in concrete enclosures, as colorful parrots caw and say hello from their chain-link aviaries.
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READ: Trump parrots royal family's smears of Khashoggi to justify U.S.'s relationship with Saudi Arabia Sen.
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No decent philosopher simply parrots some other philosopher, so there must be disagreements somewhere in every case.
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A picture of Donald Trump, with his daughter Ivanka, perched atop two concrete parrots having sex. pic.twitter.
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There is abundant evidence now that parrots possess cognitive capacities and sensibilities remarkably similar to our own.
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He was not able to put into words what exactly went on between him and the parrots.
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I learn that octopi have three hearts and that a group of parrots is called a pandemonium.
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It would be an important first if the parrots were playing in reaction to this laughing call.
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Cats amazed by toys; parrots tucking themselves in; a tiny dog in a watermelon—they're equally potent.
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The screeches of three of his abandoned parrots echo inside an empty ballroom hanging with crystal chandeliers.
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If you can't get enough of the chicken-shaped parrots, they've also got their very own website.
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Non-human primates have had surprisingly little success learning new sounds, while parrots can mimic whole conversations.
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First, watch the video "Parrots: The Highlight Reel," above, and describe to a classmate what you see.
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Like Fox News, NRATV routinely parrots ultraconservative talking points, creating a familiar echo chamber for its viewers.
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Birds and exotics (rabbits, turtles, snakes, parrots, miniature pigs, and so on) are also dosed by weight.
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A network of Facebook troll accounts operated by the Myanmar military parrots hateful rhetoric against Rohingya Muslims.
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And we watched proud owners introduce their brightly plumed, squawking parrots at the Yuen Po Bird Garden.
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Just the thought of parrots giggling together should hopefully lead to some more laughter around the internet.
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Dr. Brucks and her co-author Auguste von Bayern tried their experiment on eight African grey parrots.
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At one point in the park, we walked by a group of parrots with bright pink heads.
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Now, however, scientists say African grey parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain a reward of nuts.
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Therefore, the parrots provided help without gaining any immediate benefits and seemingly without expecting reciprocation in return.
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Parrots are not as big as Orca whales and cannot rebel physically against their captors so powerfully.
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The woman in Clintonville kept a wide variety of avian captives in around 225 cages, including parakeets, cockatiels, finches, macaws, African grey parrots, Amazon parrots, cockatoos, and others, according to Columbus police and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which assisted with the rescue.
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Trump's statement on turbines and cancer parrots claims popularized years ago, known as the (debunked) wind turbine syndrome.
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Farmers in India are fighting tooth and nail to keep a scourge of opium-addicted parrots at bay.
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The virus at the heart of the disease attacks the feather follicles, beaks and claws of affected parrots.
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Tourists bartering for novelty t-shirts jostle in overcrowded alleys with vendors selling monkeys, parrots, and fighting cocks.
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If you look to your right you'll see a rainbow of parrots hanging out on a tree branch.
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Parrots, those colorful birds famous for repeating what you say, are facing fewer protections from the Trump administration.
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The technology is already being used to track endangered parrots and spider monkeys in South and Central America.
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An article on the editorial page in 1877 attacked parrots the way the birds themselves tear into food.
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But every fall, the green parrots who nest in the cemetery forage outside of their confines for food.
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Conservationists are worried about the populations of native parrots and mountain coquís, but say the forest will regenerate.
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It's not just exotic animals like tigers, alligators, and parrots that have made the White House their home.
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And since we have three dogs and three parrots, they're requesting us to purchase two to six rooms.
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Isn't this essentially how global warming began, just instead of oil or coal or wood, here it's parrots?
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With all due respect to the indisputable brilliance of corvids, parrots are probably the smartest birds in the world.
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To test the parrots' taste for fun, the researchers played recordings of chirps made by keas when they're playing.
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Their ability to discriminate numbers is on par with African grey parrots, dolphins and guppies, among others, Howard wrote.
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In the wild, parrots ply the air, mostly, in the same way whales do the sea: together and intricately.
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Birds play an important role in native American mythology, and parrots became part of the culture of some groups.
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Fluorescence, a glow-in-the-mostly-dark property, is mainly confined to certain species of fish, turtles and parrots.
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"What a beautiful day don't you wish you were holding some parrots while wearing a bucket hat?" she wrote.
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Experiences abound of the ways parrots have saved the lives of humans because of their sensitivity to human troubles.
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But Neemuch district isn't the only place to be hit by waves of addicted parrots looking for their fix.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains fewer protections for parrots and manatees, but new safeguards for freshwater mussels.
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The researchers observed 86 types of animals, from ants to cattle-like zebus, eating food that parrots had dropped.
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Then the raucous shrieks of parrots high in the treetops and, far away, the low moans of howler monkeys.
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Its giant beak may have enabled Squawkzilla to eat whatever it pleased, meat or plant — perhaps even other parrots.
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In addition, the ingested toxins may well have an antimicrobial, anti-parasitic effect, helping parrots to fend off disease.
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Dragons, jelly fish and parrots decorated coats and dresses and two zebras stood on a big orange fur coat.
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In today's 360 video, visit an artist's work space in New York City where dozens of parrots supply inspiration.
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Hungry villagers also ate up the land birds, such as herons, parrots and owls, until they were gone, too.
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Other branches of the structure include a captive media that parrots the party line every step of the way.
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Another fabric consisted of the Union Jack blotted with black silhouettes of parrots, like images from a Rorschach test.
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Flutes, ceremonial staffs, more turquoise, stores of ceramic vessels, remains of South American parrots and jewelry were found nearby.
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And a novel program is demonstrating unusual success in helping veterans suffering from PTSD by letting them interact with parrots.
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Memories of other beings (animal or human) are more easily formed in social animals, such as dogs, horses, or parrots.
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In between holding live parrots and dancing, guests also snacked on an epic candy bar and of course, tiki cocktails.
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All of the sudden these same tight-lipped guys are cuddling up to the parrots and talking away with them.
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I got a sense early on at the park of which parrots and veterans seemed most drawn to one another.
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She flaps, she chirps, she dances, she talks, she does all the things feathered parrots do without missing a beat.
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Parrots are not docile, not completely tamed, and their depictions in these paintings cannot be perceived simply as static symbols.
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Loud groups of crossbills chatter and hang acrobatically on their cone feasts, sometimes moving around with their bills like parrots.
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A lot of the trade has moved online, where cutsy pictures of gray parrots in cages copying human speech proliferate.
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Scientists have already shown that animals like chimps, monkeys, pigeons, and parrots can learn to use symbols to represent numbers.
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They have been documented to cause the decline or extinction of parrots, penguins, iguanas, lizards, turtles, snakes, lemurs and bats.
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Huge parrots presided over the brightly hued display, and a tiger prowled through the plant-filled basin of a fountain.
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Home to parrots, snakes, frogs, and lizards, El Yunque is also the country's only tropical rainforest, according to the USDA.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new safety standards for garage doors, and protections for certain parrots and crayfish.
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Lear's parrots, drawn from living captives in the newly opened London Zoo, are rich and self-sufficient on their perches.
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In 1859, a look at a book called "An Illustrated History of the Animal Kingdom" noted the capabilities of parrots.
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Researchers have found that when a flock of parrots alights on a fruiting tree, a veritable seed massacre can ensue.
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Why some parrots thrive in anthropocentric landscapes while others are on the cusp of oblivion has yet to be determined.
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Fruiting trees are a patchy and unpredictable resource, and parrots often fly many miles a day in quest of food.
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Related: Whimsically Chill Nudes Bring Back a Whiff of Summer This Artist Gave Colorful Parrots Elegant Legs, Because Why Not?
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Large bones are rare in this deposit, but it has yielded fossils of moas, a giant eagle, and other parrots.
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Trilobites Long-lived and clever parrots may be as different genetically from other birds as humans are from other primates.
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At one point, a flock of red parrots flashed through a grove of eucalyptus trees and took my breath away.
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Scientists in South and Central America are already using Rainforest Connection's audio data to track endangered parrots and spider monkeys.
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Any Republican who parrots Russian propaganda spread by Russian intelligence, while Russia is attacking America, should be ashamed and humiliated.
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Trilobites A series of experiments demonstrated that African grey parrots had something like social intelligence in addition to their cleverness.
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And the parrots nest in cavities in the island's limestone, and no doubt would have hunkered down during the storm.
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Hurricane Maria, he said may have knocked out a group of Puerto Rican parrots that live at a high elevation.
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I zigzagged through a large group of cockatoos and brightly colored crimson rosella parrots and hopped back into the car.
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They say he effectively parrots Kremlin talking points by denigrating NATO and endorsing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
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We learned that doing parrot rescue – these wolfdogs are getting relinquished just as frequently as the parrots who need re-homing.
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She parrots the accepted Rhaegar-Lyanna story to Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen), and he responds with a quiet, telling smile.
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Youth Winner: Cobalt-winged Parakeets by Liron GertsmanGreen birbsPhoto: Liron Gertsman/Audubon Photography AwardsThese small parrots are common to South America.
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" This, she added, includes "dogs, raccoons, pythons, monkeys, parrots, as well as trapeze, magic tricks, illusionists, an iron man and clowns.
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Dogs, cats, parrots, hamsters, and, for some people, even snakes and rats are often our best friends–and for good reason.
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He parrots his friend's catchphrases and gives cheesy thumbs-up, trying to be more human, it would seem, than death bot.
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State TV, where some 80 percent of Russians still get their news, parrots the Kremlin's line and mostly excludes dissenting voices.
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Parrots flit through the jungle around his house, and the humid air hangs so close it feels like a physical presence.
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Second, read this slightly modified passage from the article "Parrots Are a Lot More Than 'Pretty Bird' " and answer the questions:
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John Kasich of Ohio takes its turn aiming negative advertising at Mr. Cruz, it parrots attacks made by Donald J. Trump.
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In March, Natalie Angier reported some of the latest findings about parrots, nature's most colorful birds in more ways than one.
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Lastly, researchers keep finding new surprises about parrots, which they say rival the great apes and dolphins for intelligence and resourcefulness.
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Just as with people, young parrots can easily master multiple dialects while their elders can't or won't bother to do likewise.
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After all, it was the humans who decided that it was better to get the food right away, not the parrots.
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And they're just two of the many parrots in the world who have surprised us with their intelligence, skills and longevity.
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Perhaps there is only one path that leads complex brain structures and advanced cognitive abilities like those of parrots and humans.
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One day in 2014, Belém, a member of Brazil's Kayapo tribe, went deep into the forest to hunt macaws and parrots.
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It's not just parrots — Earth is filled with species that are incredibly different from us in physiology, behavior, and group dynamics.
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Horses are intelligent, comparable to elephants even, but they come nowhere close to possessing the same level of cognition as parrots.
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New research suggests parrots have an enlarged brain circuit responsible for higher-order thinking—a brain circuit with strikingly mammalian-like characteristics.
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He objects to the fact that Ostashevsky's references to Hafiz, al-Ghazali, and parrots in Persian literature are excluded from this review.
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Instead of hiding her bare body, the Boston-based bird is a proud Instagram spokesbird for fellow parrots suffering from the disease.
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Jao Keehn and the other researchers hypothesized that dance moves arise from the combination of five traits that parrots and humans share.
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Our guest house in Banda Florida echoed with the raucous calls of parrots, which gathered in a large tree across the street.
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A tour of our archives shows that journalists here have been reporting on what parrots can do since the mid-19th century.
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There were four parrots in the study and the force they used to lift off was measured using sensors in the branches.
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Ravi introduces Triton to the American Wild West, cages parrots and mynas in his house and shoots arrows tipped with flattened nails.
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Parrots and many other animals consume clay to treat an upset stomach; clay binds to toxins, flushing them out of the body.
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But researchers can't tell whether African grey parrots feel the same way, or help others simply because they expect favors in return.
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Live parrots and cockroaches appeared in his works, as did ground coffee, doors, meat, windows, stone-filled cupboards and steel bed frames.
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Exotic lemurs and parrots were packed up and carried away to safety as fires ringed the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park.
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New research published today in Scientific Reports identifies a particular circuit in the brains of parrots that may contribute to their remarkable intelligence.
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For the study, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez and his team looked at brain samples from nearly 100 birds, including chickens, songbirds, waterfowl, owls, and parrots.
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"Pigeons, parrots, and jays have all been found to exhibit remarkable abilities to learn and remember a wealth of challenging tasks," he said.
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Heidi, too, has appeared on a string of such programs ( Celebrity Big Brother, Sober House, even Animal Planet's Heidi Fleiss: Prostitutes to Parrots).
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In the near future as envisioned by Amazon, little drones will sit on the shoulders of police officers like parrots on a pirate.
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I grew up having lots of birds, and I love how parrots express so much curiosity and personality (but I also love dogs!).
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She attended 80 web-organized meetups across the US, capturing people bonding over parrots, yoyos and their love of J. R. R. Tolkien.
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It estimates that the logging planned on Bruny Island for the next two years would destroy almost 40% of the parrots' habitat there.
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I remember sitting for 14 hours one night, struggling to stay awake, and talking to a woman who rescued parrots after Hurricane Katrina.
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Parrots can similarly clip apart leg bands, satellite holsters and other animal-tracking devices, which is one reason most researchers have avoided them.
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"Maybe it was the prayer of those parrots who were freed from the cage," Ghulam Naqshband, an older neighbor, said with a smile.
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Dr. Brucks says only a few apes, though, have acted like the African grey parrots, aiding others with no clear benefit to themselves.
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"Parrots are considered to have primate-like cognitive capacities and are thus mainly studied for their intelligence and their vocal communication capacities," Bertin said.
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There's a weird ouroboros effect here, as the new Rocky and Bullwinkle parrots the style of cartoons inspired by the old Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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McCaulay cited valuable aquifers and unique biodiversity, including rare species of parrots, butterflies, frogs, snails, and ferns, as reasons to protect the remote area.
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Some parrots and ravens are really good at imitating human speech, but for the most part, this is an ability that eludes most animals.
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Instead, the pet trade, both legally and illegally, imports exotic bird species like parrots—and inevitably, some of these birds escape and occasionally breed.
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This gameplay mechanic set off a firestorm over the weekend, as Redditors suggested that feeding chocolate to parrots in real life would kill them.
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There are plenty of party parrots that one can upload to Slack, including pizza parrot, blonde sassy parrot, Guy Fieri parrot, and mustache parrot.
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She is known for her understated personal style, and her dual career as a novelist whose latest book, "The Parrots," was published last year.
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On one side, there's Trump who wants to potentially restrict even legal immigration and who parrots white nationalist talking points when demonizing African-Americans.
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He has had four operations to repair a broken knee, a broken nose — "the little accidents you get from working with parrots," he said.
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"They formed a little immigrant enclave," Dr. Wright said, adding, "Vocal similarity is very important for maintaining social relationships," in parrots as in humans.
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We'd walk through the Bywater and the next neighborhood north, Faubourg Marigny, where the "Creole cottages" and shotgun shacks were painted like multicolored parrots.
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Trump Parrots Russia's Leader" (editorial, July 17): You write that it is a mystery why the president "is unwilling to call out Russian perfidy.
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Here are seven great things we wrote about this week: Parrots are beautiful, affectionate and intelligent, and many people enjoy keeping them as pets.
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Future studies may reveal that they're not just important to aging in parrots or other long-lived birds, but in other animals as well.
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A pair of South American parrots spread wide wings of crimson, marigold and emerald as they nuzzle each other in a giant outdoor cage.
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The first morning, while hiking through a cloud forest, Prum heard odd bell-like notes, which he took to be the murmurings of parrots.
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The work consists of a small island of sand and pebbles inhabited by two Amazonian parrots in a cage and two box-like installations.
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Minecraft lead creative designer Jens Bergensten told me in an email that soon another food will be used to tame parrots in the game.
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Not only does the emerald color look amazing with her complexion, but the parrots hit on one of the hottest trends right now, creature couture.
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Once I gave myself permission to do that, it was sunshine and rainbows and multi-colored parrots again (sorry, inside joke with Ashish and Sweetie).
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Many of the parrots escaped, or were released from captivity, and are now prolific in Madrid, as well as number of other areas in Spain.
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In 2018, we'll be adding raccoons, llamas, hippos, kangaroos, and badgers to the mammalian kingdom, while swans, peacocks, and parrots will diversify our feathered options.
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Beyond the banana and everyone's favorite plumbers, the top 20153 includes two dancing parrots, a dancing Carlton, and two versions of a breakdancing cartoon kid.
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Models strutted down the catwalk in an array of tops, skirts, trousers and dresses adorned with patterns of fruit, flowers, flamingos, parrots, seahorses and fish.
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It turns out they're far from unusual—escaped pet parrots have established breeding populations in nearly half of U.S. states, according to a new analysis.
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There are so many types of creatures here; birds, parrots, monkeys, armadillo… If people continue to destroy the nature where will all these animals live?
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Each new event and unlock became another line of the epic poem he was composing about "Plume of Maroon" and his race of science-parrots.
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Learning about the plethora of party parrots this week has left Powell wondering about the internet as a meme machine and prompted some self-reflection.
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Bob Woodward, the one-man Swamp, parrots Foggy Bottom geopolitical strategery that says we should win friends abroad by exporting American jobs, factories and industries.
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Researchers have lately gathered evidence that a drive to detoxify could explain why parrots often converge on clay flats and start nibbling at the ground.
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Researchers have found that flocks of parrots have "conversations," and analysis of their brains shows that they learn languages in a similar way to humans.
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Science has documented many biofluorescent animals including chameleons, corals, jellyfish, reef fish, sharks, scorpions, butterflies, budgies, parrots, penguins, puffins, sea turtles and even flying squirrels.
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The "Thousand and Second Night" evening in 1911, for example, involved 300 guests dressed in Persian costumes, décor complete with fountains, and parrots and monkeys.
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However, only the African grey parrots were willing to transfer a token to a neighboring parrot, allowing the fellow bird to earn a nut reward.
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The parrots are believed to have escaped from their shipping crate at Kennedy Airport in the late 1960s, eventually making their way to New Jersey.
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The decline in the bat numbers would affect "all the other animals that are dependent on the trees they pollinate - parrots, possums, koalas," she added.
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We did have some nature with us — my father's two parrots and my mother's egg-laying chickens lived in the apartment hallway, and so did Regalito.
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At Veterans Affairs hospitals, not only therapy dogs but also parrots have reduced anxiety and other symptoms among patients being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Game publishers illustrated these decks with comedic depictions of middle-aged women living with cats and parrots—the subtext being what horrors awaited an unmarried woman.
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We took over the basement for experiments; my brother housed a mini-zoo on the roof, with gazelles, rabbits, pigeons, guinea fowl, myna birds and parrots.
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We're told the lemurs were herded into guest rooms on the island and the parrots and tortoises were caged and stored in some of the structures.
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The turquoise parakeet and scarlet-chested parakeet were both listed as endangered species in 1970, but the agency says the parrots no longer warrant these protections.
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Parrots are more likely to drop unripe fruits than ripe ones, and they're more careful with food during breeding season, when they are raising hungry chicks.
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Of course, with a few million dollars' worth of digital "campaigning", it wasn't long before the mainstream media got in on the act, parroting the parrots.
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For decades, researchers have studied how certain animals evolved to be intelligent, among them apes, elephants, dolphins and even some birds, such as crows and parrots.
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In 1989, Hurricane Hugo killed almost half the wild population of Puerto Rico's native parrots — the only remaining bird of its type in the United States.
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No Monty Python dead-parrot-sketch links from us this time, but we hope someone has boogied over to YouTube for a nice "dancing parrots" sample.
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Holding the stick, or occasionally a hard seedpod, with his left foot (parrots are typically left-footed), the male taps a beat on his tree perch.
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When you've spent time around parrots and know how truly human-like they can be, it feels wrong to think of them as being on display.
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The fact that macaws blush to communicate isn't surprising—parrots are outrageously smart and emotional birds that can count, add and subtract, and make and use tools.
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Hayek looks positively stunning in her own right: she wore a green Altuzarra gown covered in beadwork to resemble a tropical scene, complete with parrots and ducks.
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I'm acting like the 12-year-old boy again around the parrots, and what that does is help me confront my trauma rather than carry it around.
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The official name of this bacterial disease is psittacosis and it can be passed on by not only parrots, but other birds too, like turkeys and pigeons.
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There doesn't appear to be any dinosaur or other Mesozoic group doing the primate niche in the Mesozoic (the closest the dinosaurs got to that is parrots).
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Wyden ripped into Wray's speech:Your stated position parrots the same debunked arguments espoused by your predecessors, all of whom ignored the widespread and vocal consensus of cryptographers.
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Additionally, you'll begin to see Lemon Chiffon Yogurt, Berry Trio Yogurt, Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, and Parrot Cake Pops, which are adorably decorated to look like parrots.
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So Cost's group modeled how parrots' and geckos' skulls and jaws — two animals with mobile skulls — worked, and then applied those movements to a T. rex skull.
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"We call them feathered primates," said Irene Pepperberg, who studies animal cognition at Harvard and is renowned for her research with Alex and other African grey parrots.
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Fifty years after exotic bird importers began carting them here from their native South America, the parrots have nestled into other neighborhoods in the city and beyond.
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The Mercado de Sonora is known for its illegal trade of wildlife; here you can find anything from dogs to monkeys, iguanas, parrots, and anything in between.
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When he heard the squawk of a parrot from the forest, he stopped the minivan and squawked back — parrots, he said, had been rarely seen since Maria.
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Finally, the Taj Mahal is getting a cleaning, architects-turned-pastry chefs are taking the dessert world by storm, and we met the Pied Piper of parrots.
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Their analysis, published Thursday in Current Biology, also highlights how two very different animals — parrots and humans — can wind up finding similar solutions to problems through evolution.
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By looking at specifics in the genetic changes of parrots and humans, researchers in the future may develop a better understanding of the powers of convergent evolution.
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Experts suspect that during the several "parrot flu" scares, many people who were keeping parrots as pets may have released them in order to avoid the disease.
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Contrary to urban legend that they flew here, he said, the parrots came via the pet trade and were subsequently introduced into the wild — largely by accident.
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In rehearsal for a work called "Parrots and Guinea Pigs," Ms. Lagravière took part in an exercise where two dancers repeatedly bit her thighs while she screamed.
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The image of piracy instantly transformed from buccaneers with eye patches, peg legs and parrots to African men in little skiffs with RPGs and nothing to lose.
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Technically so might dogs, cats, miniature horses, kangaroos, possums, parrots, hamsters, ducks, turkeys, ferrets, lizards, snakes, turtles and a variety of other animals seldom seen at 35,000 feet.
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The researchers compared the relative size of the SpM to the rest of the brain, finding that the SpM in parrots are significantly larger compared to other birds.
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Argentine parrots -- myiopsitta monachus, also known as monk parakeets -- are native to South America, but many were kept as pets in Spain before ownership became illegal in 2011.
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Where that earliest of breeding colonies might have been remains a mystery, but that it might have existed at all is further testament to how treasured parrots were.
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Google ranks the Samantha Hunts, making a hierarchy both hideous and hilarious as it parrots the absurd premise that one human life is more valuable than any other.
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So, in addition to all great apes (a group that includes humans), whales, dolphins, and elephants, we should also include certain birds, such as corvids and parrots.[PNAS]
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Recently, a group of scientists turned on a recording of what they think is a parrot play call, and observed that kea parrots became more "playful" in response.
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Early every morning, a perfect falsetto disrupts Paul Thomas' dreams as Magoo, one of his talking African gray parrots, alerts him that it's time to face the day.
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Dancing with awkward-limbed jigs and posing about in balletic positions, a company of parrots strive to find balance between their lovely, chromatic plumage and augmented, bipedal faculties.
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But they are the only parrots to build stick nests in colonies that provide insulation in cold winters, including on structures such as a New York cemetery archway.
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The sights of faraway destinations — bright parrots in Australia, sphinxes in Egypt, women in Algeria wearing traditional garb — were marketed as the thrills awaiting those who snagged tickets.
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While falcons are predators in the conventional sense, hunting and devouring other animals, parrots turn out to be no less bloodthirsty in their approach to feasting on plants.
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Flocks of parrots can strip stands of fruiting trees of all their seeds, risking the long-term viability of the very food source on which the birds depend.
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These days they're buddies with Madrid bands Los Nastys and The Parrots, and the girls are truly enamored by artists like The Strokes, Black Lips, and Arctic Monkeys.
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The blue-fronted Amazon and some other parrots are even more exceptional, in that they can live up to 66 years — in some cases outliving their human companions.
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He sits on his balcony with a pair of binoculars, smoking and watching the older woman across the way who tends to her parrots and parakeets while topless.
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Local artists learned to paint in styles popular in Europe, introducing Peruvian landscapes, maize, guinea pigs and parrots into biblical scenes, and blending Renaissance, baroque and Incan symbols.
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Later that day at Mr. Itanare's tattoo studio, they watched through the window as an older woman fed a flock of blue and gold parrots on her balcony.
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Shark fins, the claws and teeth of large felines, parrots and other exotic birds are just some of the more vulnerable species being ripped from their natural habitat.
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New Caledonian crows craft tools to retrieve inaccessible grub; blue jays count; African gray parrots converse with humans, who entrust homing pigeons with carrying messages across enemy lines.
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From the very first trial, which was described Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the parrots with tokens gave them away, even though they got nothing in return.
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Relentlessly chirpy, the noisy miner blasts the alarm before dawn alongside the screeching and flapping of rainbow lorikeets, parrots brighter than Magic Markers and that argue like toddlers.
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It's not uncommon for some creatures to maintain themselves using tools, like chimpanzees that groom or wipe themselves with natural objects and captive parrots that scratch with sticks.
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All the while, Kerala's thriving airborne population swoops, calls and flaps across Vaikundam's bow — from flycatchers, fruit bats and bee-eaters to parrots, larks and white-throated kingfishers.
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Call explained that dolphins and beluga whales have been known to copy sounds from other species while some birds, like parrots for example, are known to mimic sounds.
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Mr. Garrett said that while parrots were not indigenous to California, he would not call them invasive because they were not known to disturb native habitats or species.
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He read a beautiful poem by a Native American writer and I carried a bouquet of feathers that had dropped from the parrots over the course of several years.
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The setting wasn't what she was used to: the weight machines were old and rusty, and monkeys clung to the bars on the windows as parrots flew by outside.
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And now, in yet another unlikely occurrence, parrots, among the oldest victims of human acquisitiveness and vainglory, have become some of the most empathic readers of our troubled minds.
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That the parrots get what the veterans are going through and, of course, the veterans get them, too, because, hey, they are all pretty much traumatized birds around here.
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Image: BagoGames/FlickrSeeking to safeguard the future of its kiwis, parrots, and hobbits, New Zealand has just made the "world first" decision to eradicate all wild predators by 2050.
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The collection reimagines bold archival prints — think bright pinks and teals, featuring elements of flora and fauna such as vines, flowers, and even parrots and squirrels — for everyday use.
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"However, what made me pay more attention was a very different sound made by a small group (of parrots) that arrived to eat to a native tree," he said.
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She parrots what she's already told me: I'm cancer-free as of my surgery in January and will be in remission as of the date of my last treatment.
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Their dispatches captured Egypt's exotica — vessels "laden with elephant's teeth, ostrich feathers, gold dust and parrots," in the words of Wolfradine von Minutoli, whose travelogue was published in 1826.
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The morning of her death, Guzmán's sister-in-law, Madeline Berríos, walked into Pilar's home to find her three parrots "completely silent" for the first time she can recall.
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Where Audubon's parrots gyrate and foreshorten themselves—one can almost hear them chattering as they press their beaks toward the picture plane—Lear's are sphinxlike in their mysterious stillness.
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The polemic was prompted by a Philadelphia man's proposal to gather the most intelligent parrots and to breed them in a program that sounds a bit like avian eugenics.
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And I've been overcome with awe every time I've gone to see hundreds of red-crowned parrots come in to land in one of their night roosts in Pasadena.
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For all their visual splash and cartoon familiarity, parrots have long been given scientific short shrift in favor of more amenable subjects like, say, zebra finches or blue tits.
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After comparing its genome with those of dozens of other birds, the researchers' findings suggest that evolution may have made parrots something like the humans of the avian world.
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Kristen Cure, a former administrative assistant, remembered searching for a birdcage the club could buy for one of his pet parrots and refilling a cash card for his use.
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"For some reason, I thought a bird was going to be simple," said Marty Sokoloff, who owns two parrots, an eclectus and a cockatoo, with his wife, Suzie Marchlen.
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"Absolutely not," Mr. Idle said with a laugh, when asked if the group had any plans to commemorate a half-century of dead parrots, cheese shops and silly walks.
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Over hundreds of millions of years of evolving separately, we and the African grey parrots both developed the habit of looking out for a neighbor who needs a walnut.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four finalists have been picked in a contest for monument designs in Washington, with proposals that include talking automated parrots and dying cherry trees, organizers said on Wednesday.
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Since then, he has allegedly been involved in the sale of dozens of chimpanzees as well as rare birds and parrots, sometimes with the help of Guinea's former wildlife director.
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One character you meet is trapped in a corporate mascot's uniform and sends out desperate requests for aid, but resolutely parrots corporate pablum at you when you attempt to help.
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The decision has its detractors but plenty of beneficiaries too - be it future generations of Jamaicans or the current crop of parrots, butterflies, ferns and frogs that call Cockpit home.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The 17th meeting of the U.N.'s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been meeting in Johannesburg, with ivory, rhinos and parrots on the agenda.
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In an online feature called "More than Mimicry: The Parrot in Dutch Genre Painting," she explored the significance of the parrots as metaphors, and their presence as intelligent animal companions.
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But here's a scenario that merits at least a moment's thought: what if Pence remains loyal to the bitter end, and parrots his erstwhile boss' lines about the impeachment process?
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The band's latest album, "Stereotype," includes both thrashing hardcore criticizing the police state ("Pigs Are Haram") and a tongue-in-cheek ditty that parrots its slogans ("See Something, Say Something").
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In 1876, an article headlined "Anecdotes of Parrots" recounted the tale of a parrot who died in Britain in 1802 after years spent impressing her owner with her musical ability.
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The sand, huts, potted plants, caged parrots, and inscribed poetry of his sprawling "Tropicália" (1968) await your barefoot delectation, should you choose to park your shoes in the rack provided.
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The space is so open and accommodating that many of the more social birds, including a close-knit clique of Amazon parrots, make regular house calls to each other's cages.
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Ms. López, whose team is trying to gain access to the western part of El Yunque where the parrots live, said the toll in the wild population was not known.
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There are dancing animated parrots, homemade "crappy bowling games" and simulations of "cyclic 2D cellular automata" (I have no idea what this means, but it looks beautiful and vaguely trippy).
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Standing in front of the burned-out shell of her family's home and adjacent appliance repair shop, she pointed to the blackened cage that once held her two beloved parrots.
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Colleagues of his told him that when Maria came in at night as a strong Category 4 hurricane in September 2017, it killed 17 of 20 parrots wearing tracking devices.
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But Trump has cheered on violent retaliation against reporters and constantly parrots the "fake news" charge that has long been a staple of dictators dating back to Hitler and Stalin.
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The nonprofit's facilities are based on 87 acres of land in Statesville, North Carolina, where animal rescuers house more than 80 animals, including mini horses, rabbits, parrots, snakes and more.
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It's not a stupid animal, but again it's not as smart as a parrot, because in the old days, people could train parrots to ride bikes and all sorts of stuff.
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Nature was always his first resource: shadows of barns "thin with frosted straw", parrots "twinkling down", cornfields "decaying/to slatternly paper", the forest trees in spring "feathering/With gold of emergence".
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However they manage, parrots can live a half century or longer: the record-holder among Moluccan cockatoos, for example, is 92, and a very lucky kakapo might make it to 120.
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At least seven parrots died in captivity because of the stress induced by the hurricane and the high heat in the days after because of the lack of canopy, she said.
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They shared a 7,000-square-foot house outfitted with a "bird room" that included parrots and other birds and, in the basement, a small salon, where she styled her friends' hair.
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He uses imprecision as a way of making statements in which he parrots unknown and possibly nonexistent sourcing — ironically, the very thing that this projectionist accuses the "fake news" of doing.
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There are expeditions in Brooklyn to see wild parrots, walks in Britain with mini ponies and tea parties with "naughty" sheep in Scotland known to steal crumpets and nibble on sweaters.
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The revelers gathered Saturday evening outside a store on the Upper East Side with taxidermied parrots in the window: women in floor-kissing gowns and little black dresses, men in suits.
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He is an avid breeder of cows, and he kept a menagerie of chimpanzees, a dik-dik (a small antelope), birds of prey and parrots at his house in urban Kinshasa.
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Its deployment of "petty" as a weapon is particularly canny because it parrots a legitimate strain of press criticism, one that warns reporters against getting sidetracked by meaningless White House spectacles.
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First, scientists still need to explain why corvids (crows, ravens), who exhibit many of the same cognitive capacities and behaviors as parrots, don't seem to have such an exaggerated medial spiriform nucleus.
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Repairing the damage wrought on the broadband system, including replacing steel-braid wires that the pesky parrots have gnawed, has already cost A$80,000 ($61,500), network builder NBN Co said on Friday.
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But since the nearest natural population of these birds is—and was—some 2,000km away, the question has been how so many of these parrots could have ended up in this canyon.
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Kat parrots Jacqueline's line about "stealth feminism" — women can care about contouring and Capitol Hill, you know — but it takes a visit to Scarlet and some sex toy swag to sway Adena.
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In turn, this sheds new light on the broader question of why humans around the world—and perhaps parrots, too—have the ability and deep motivation to move our bodies to music.
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Originally imported as pets in the 1970s, parrots now swoop through Tokyo, dotting the sky, resting on power lines, and creating a colorful display that Yoshinori Mizutani has captured with his photographs.
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There are the sumptuous burials of 37 sacred macaws, the gorgeous, red, blue yellow and green parrots, brought here from southern climes, and likely bred for their rainbow of resplendent sacred feathers.
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In Peru, the biologist Thor Hanson writes in his 2011 book, "Feathers," the Inca rubbed their parrots with poison-arrow frog secretions so that their colors would change with the next molt.
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Splodges of red, blue and gold amidst the trees in Mabita, a Miskito hamlet four hours' drive from the coast, are guaras—large, loud parrots known to English-speakers as scarlet macaws.
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Many of the recent discoveries are described in a new book, "Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds," by Catherine A. Toft and Timothy F. Wright.
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First the birds, great green macaws, blue-throated macaws, blue-headed macaws and African grey parrots, learned that they could barter tokens for foods of different value — to the birds, that is.
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The same scientists had previously named a group of extinct parrots the Nelepsittacus (after Neleus from Greek mythology), which are closely related to a group of birds named after Neleus' son Nestor.
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And neither do business models — and Fox News's business model is to feed, and feed off of, that culture war by allowing many of its commentators to be Trump's parrots and bullhorns.
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Instead, what emerged was a one-party state with Mr. Moi at its center who demanded blind loyalty from government officials by asking them "to sing like parrots" after his own tune.
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He said that most parrots are smart enough to avoid eating bitter dark chocolate, which is most dangerous to them and noted that milk chocolate doesn't pose that much of a risk.
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And don't forget to meet the on-site parrot whisperer, Victor, who hosts one of the most popular activities called "bird interaction," where you get to meet and pose with the house parrots.
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In March, she sported Gucci once more when she accompanied her parents to the world premiere of Beauty and the Beast in another green dress— this time, decorated with matching parrots and snakes.
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Intelligent, long-lived, tool-using birds with some rudiments of a society and a collective memory—parrots and ravens—have existed for quite some time, but there has been no "runaway" intelligence cascade.
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Everyone knows parrots can repeat words they hear humans say, but there's one parrot with a repertoire of voices and noises so large that, in my opinion, he deserves his own TV show.
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On a recent morning, the crowns of the wax palms could be seen breaching the cloud line as a host of bird species — toucans, parrots, jays — made for the trees' red-orange fruits.
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Recently, scientists have discovered fossils of birds that we wouldn't expect to be so large today—prehistoric parrots that stood one meter tall, penguins the size of people, and other, more mysterious birds.
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Watch "Urban Ark Los Angeles," a documentary short by KCET and UCLA's Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) But the implications of these parrots' presence in the city goes beyond emotion and aesthetics.
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Parrots pooh-pooh the fruit pulp and home in on the seeds, crushing the casings to extract the plant embryos and the cache of fats and proteins intended to help those embryos germinate.
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In laboratory experiments at the University of California, Davis, scientists fed orange-winged parrots small doses of quinidine, a potentially toxic alkaloid, and followed with what they called a "chaser" of Peruvian clay.
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Miniaturized stage sets, they are populated with pairs of lapis and turquoise parrots, intertwining jeweled zebras, diamond-and-sapphire monkeys and cocooning penguins with black onyx and cabochon gems, all similar in scale.
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany set up a situation where the parrots were encouraged to trade a metal token with a researcher in exchange for a nut treat.
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To get through airport customs, smugglers had stuffed the chimpanzees into the center of a giant trapdoor crate, surrounding them with cages containing dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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"If Minecraft has any effect on children's behavior, we want it to be a positive one, so we'll change the item used to breed parrots before the 1.12 update is released," Bergensten said.
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They're one of many species of parrot that flock to "clay licks," according to the World Parrot Trust—walls of clay that parrots eat, perhaps to make up for mineral deficiencies in their diets.
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Where AI sometimes parrots its designers' perspective — like facial recognition systems that perform better on white men than on women of color — collective intelligence can reflect a broader range of human experience, Verhulst said.
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Finally, in 2006, she was in the veterans' garden and happened to catch sight of the parrots being housed in an unusual facility that opened a year earlier on the grounds of the center.
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"If Minecraft has any effect on children's behavior, we want it to be a positive one, so we'll change the item used to breed parrots before the 1.12 update is released," Bergensten told Motherboard.
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On view in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting are two loans from the Leiden Collection that portray women with parrots, one by Gerrit Dou, and another by his pupil, Frans van Mieris.
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For now, the answer is that scientists need to do more science, and establish what effects, if any, parrots have on native species (for now, there's no evidence either way, according to the paper).
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Kanilai was Jammeh's birthplace and is now his most elaborate estate - complete with farm, mosque, tanks, multiple residences, jungle warfare training camp and vast private safari park housing exotic parrots, zebras, hyenas and camels.
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Organizers cordoned off most of the lobby of the Rixos Hotel, venue for the meeting, so negotiators could step out and have tea or coffee at tables surrounded by plants and parrots in cages.
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You might love it, you might hate it, but you can't deny that the ability to litter conversations with cartoons of pizzas, pokémon, and party parrots doesn't seem to have been well thought out.
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The new study provides "a comprehensive picture of parrots' food wasting behavior in their natural environment," said Anastasia Krasheninnikova, a biologist at the Max Planck Comparative Cognition Research Group in Spain, an independent commenter.
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She kept three parrots on her back patio -- Paulina, Cuqui and Blanqui -- and she taught them to sing "La Cucaracha" and chant the rosary, making them just as boisterous and devout as she was.
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Feeding largely on non-native nut and fruit trees, red-crowned parrots started to breed and became a permanent feature of the greater Los Angeles landscape over the course of the 1980s and '90s.
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Most parrots live in the tropics or subtropics, where a mix of habitat loss and the depredations of the international pet trade now threaten a third of all species with extinction, Dr. Masello said.
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Levey's take parrots and reinforces the misogynistic gossip that dogged Le Brun throughout her entire career — that she was a beautiful woman of moderate talent who seduced her sitters — none of which was true.
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A magnificent navigation map of around 15323-2 shows all the latest geographical discoveries in Africa, the Indies and the New World (where the shores of Brazil are exotically adorned with jungles and parrots).
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Just down the road from Jack's Lobster Shack, perched on utility poles, are giant birds' nests, built by members of a colony of Quaker parrots that arrived in Edgewater more than 40 years ago.
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Perhaps that is also why parrots, dolphins and apes raised by scientists in intellectually demanding environments often develop a degree of intelligence not seen in their wild counterparts: Culture unlocks the brain's latent potential.
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In 2000, a nonprofit called Amigos de Sian Ka'a launched a plan for villagers to trap and sell parrots as pets, but that was torpedoed three years later when the government outlawed the practice.
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Green parrots roost in the palm trees of the square, a half-block from the vendor-lined walking street Sarandi and five blocks from the Port Market, filled with grill-focused restaurants known as parrillas.
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She also shared shots of Ace, who recently broke his arm and is still sporting a neon green cast, covered in parrots as well as a candid picture of Maxwell with her arms spread wide.
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In a hilarious Twitter thread full of twists, turns, and birds, Twitter user Himynameisnoor documented a very interesting day she had in which her mother, after years of holding off, finally went and bought parrots.
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"Almost all parrots have a similar social system: an individual bonds and mates with a single other individual, and they spend all of their time together for the rest of their lives," McGowan told Gizmodo.
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The population of Argentine parrots in Madrid's parks has risen by 33% in three years, from 9000 in 20183, to 12,000 already accounted for in 2019, according to data from the Spanish Society of Ornithology.
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Still, what distinguishes the mutually assuaging bond that the veterans and parrots are forming at Serenity Park is the intelligence — at once different from ours and yet recognizable — of the nonhuman part of the equation.
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" Harvard bird cognition expert Irene Pepperberg (who mostly studies parrots), told me that, while they're more likely to do it around stuff like rocks and trees, "it's not totally uncommon for turkeys to circle things.
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Like many immigrants, the bright green Monk parakeets, also known as Quaker parrots, settled into a dark, scary enclave and turned it into a colorful neighborhood teeming with life even in the dead of winter.
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Ms. Macy's backdrop for "Truevine" is an America of lynchings, of the Ku Klux Klan marching proudly down Pennsylvania Avenue to Calvin Coolidge's White House, of racism so endemic that even parrots could cast slurs.
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Dr. Wright said that captive parrots' renowned talent for promiscuous vocal mimicry — of human speech, a multipart car alarm, a cat's meow — is probably a byproduct of an innate desire to parrot its own kind.
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Offering opportunities to work with rescued monkeys and parrots in Guatemala or rehabilitate kangaroos in Australia, Animal Experience International, based in Ontario, Canada, said its trips have caught on with gap-year travelers and families.
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Although the company has received requests to take cats, turtles, parrots, and even a hamster on its luxury trips, Life Travel founder Raymond Chung said that for now the company is sticking with dogs only.
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The designers put zebra, giraffe, leopard and tiger prints on short and flirty or long chiffon dresses, pencil skirts, bustier tops, jackets, coats and tights while colourful parrots and pelicans adorned silky shorts and skirts.
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He specifies, for example, that he likes parrots and would love to interact with a friendly parrot, but he hoped his hosts would not feel obliged to therefore buy a parrot just for his visit.
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To get through customs at Nepal's international airport, the smugglers had stuffed the baby chimpanzees in the center of a trapdoor crate, surrounding them with dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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To get through customs at Nepal's international airport, the smugglers had stuffed the baby chimpanzees in the center of a trapdoor crate, surrounding them with dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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This shouldn't come as a surprise to those who handle parrots regularly, but it's the first step in a line of study that could identify just what macaws are trying to communicate by acting this way.
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He began devoting his days to caring for the parrots, forming attachments that gradually drew him out of his sense of isolation and mistrust and allowed him, in turn, to start connecting with people as well.
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"It certainly made the crew smile and although it was a false alarm because there was no actual fire, we were thankful that the householder — and his two parrots Jazz and Kiki — were safe," James added.
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In her book Do I Dream or Am I Alive, Widauer explains to Sabine Schaschl how people's particular fascination for parrots inspired the artist to explore the different parallels between the vibrant bird species and humans.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish army has confiscated 23 parrots and 294 budgerigars on the border with Syria, it said on Friday, as its tighter security measures ensnare what was once a thriving trade in domesticated birds.
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" She zealously parrots his contention that there's no evidence of anything untoward between his campaign and Russia, dismissing his hapless namesake's infamous meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian emissary as "pretty standard campaign operating procedure.
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A wooden chair, carved in the shape of an elephant, guards the open-plan kitchen and living quarters — which are also home to toy parrots, Mexican masks, cowhide rugs and a contorted Euphorbia plant called Esmeralda.
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A 2011 study published in the journal of the Royal Society of Biological Science found that parrots (the big ones like African Greys, Cockatoos, and Macaws) have the logical reasoning capabilities of a four-year-old.
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Parrots learn to speak them soon after birth, during a transitional period of vocalizing equivalent to human baby babbling known as ''subsong,'' in order to better communicate with members of their own flocks and with other flocks.
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So being with the parrots allows me to take that third-person look at my own trauma, which you can never do when you're whacked out on Vicodin and Budweiser and living under a cement highway bridge.
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Animals such as parrots and spider monkeys also go to great lengths to get the earth they crave, risking attack when they descend from the tree canopy or emerge from the jungle to exposed sites of clay.
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Because of the poaching and habitat loss from deforestation, their population dwindled in Mexico, and red-crowned parrots are now listed as an endangered species in Mexico and by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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Seeking to understand why the yellow-naped Amazons in northern Costa Rica had a different call from those living 18 miles to the south, Dr. Wright's team tried moving several parrots from one site to the other.
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He also suggested that the ability of some parrots in captivity to move to a musical beat may be an offshoot of vocal mimicry, a generalized motor pattern geared toward synchrony playing out in body or voice.
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The décor is a mix of MD 403/240 bottles, arcane Rodney Dangerfield memorabilia, murals of old wrestling heel, Classy Freddie Blassie and Eric B and Rakim, stuffed parrots, and papier-mâché pineapples dangling from the ceiling.
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Anastasia Krasheninnikova and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany tested four species of parrots in an experiment that required trading tokens for food and recently reported their findings in the journal Scientific Reports.
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The devastating line Chiang delivers comes toward the end: But parrots are more similar to humans than any extraterrestrial species ever will be, and humans can observe us up close; they can look us in the eye.
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I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the minute or two I spent with the mask on, wondering if this is how pet parrots feel when you cover their cages with a blanket for the night.
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In the latter case it was reported that the parrots were obviously becoming intoxicated from the poppies, often crashing into trees and branches or being found lying dazed in a nearby field after having indulged in the drug.
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Conservatives would get a vote by late June on an immigration bill that parrots many of President Trump&aposs hard-right immigration views, including reductions on legal immigration and opening the door to his proposed wall with Mexico.
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Matching parrots and snakes decorate the bodice — perhaps another nod to Blue's twin siblings on the way, considering the Gucci dress she recently wore to the 2017 NBA All-Star game sported two dogs in the same spot.
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But it was only after I moved to Los Angeles that I found out about her feral cousins, the large wild flocks of red-crowned parrots that live in the San Gabriel Valley, just northeast of Los Angeles.
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In the meantime, however, their pet cousins in the United States escaped or were let go by owners who realized too late that wild-caught parrots make terrible pets, and that even tamed ones are demanding and noisy.
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The similar changes found in parrots and humans aren't to the genes themselves, but occur along regions of the genome that regulate the expression of nearby genes that seem to play a role in brain development and intelligence.
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I've read and worked on cases that range anywhere from the high hundreds of thousands to low millions, and that's obviously for animals that have intrinsic high value or live a long life, like parrots, racehorses, purebred dogs.
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For the next four to five hours, she, like the six other veterans in the work-therapy program there, brings food and water to the parrots, cleans their cages and nuzzles and coos and talks and squawks with them.
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And not just the shared neuronal circuitry that has now been mapped across species, from us to the other primates to elephants and whales and, we now know, to creatures with entirely different, nonmammalian brains, like crows and parrots.
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But through a mix of rugged and sometimes risky field work, laboratory studies and a willingness to shrug off the frequent loss of expensive tracking equipment, researchers are gaining insights into the lives, minds and startling appetites of parrots.
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Next door to Ms. Stern's apartment, the pet condo is home to three parrots — Apricot, Sinbad and Roxanne (a Moluccan cockatoo that serves as an emotional support animal) — a feral cat named Butch and an Russian tortoise named Alberta.
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Martinho explained that the main implication is that the ability to use some kind of abstract concepts could be more widespread than we thought and not unique to animals considered particularly highly intelligent, such as apes, parrots, and humans.
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Having led a life adjacent to hers over the past four decades, I've been a frequent witness to and occasional participant in the joyful intensity of her enthusiasms, which range from klezmer music to smart birds—parrots and parakeets.
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Dolphins, African gray parrots and nonhuman primates also understand the idea of "zero," but researchers were surprised to find that honeybees also comprehend this concept, considering the insects&apos tiny brains, according to a statement from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
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For years, afflicted veterans were brought to work in the garden as a way of treating their trauma, essentially working in the same tranquil setting as the veterans at Serenity Park, the one obvious difference, of course, being the parrots.
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The horrible dino descendants reacted, doing what the researchers call playing—and what I call snapping into a horrible trance—dancing around in ways we think we understand but can never be sure we understand because we are not parrots.
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These are just some of the questions we're aiming to answer through ParrotNet, a pan-European group of researchers dedicated to understanding the challenge of invasive parrots (ring-necked parakeets are just one of 13 species of parrot established across Europe).
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Alien 51, her one starring role, played in the bathroom while Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss ran in the reception area; the copulating parrots were a nod to the 20 plus macaws she currently lives with.
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A study published last year revealed that though their brains are much smaller than some apes, like the capuchin monkey, the brains of corvids and large parrots have large numbers of neurons in some parts of their brains, at high density.
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According to a study last month in Scientific Reports, wild parrots across the world also waste food — an unusual and confusing habit in the animal kingdom, where making the most of a meal is generally an important part of survival.
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From left to right: VCG Wilson / Corbis / Getty; Buyenlarge / Getty; Buyenlarge / Getty If he had published only his "Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots" (1832), Lear would still occupy a solid paragraph in the history of Victorian art.
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