Christine Quinn is queen of the pack as she hosts an exotic jungle themed baby shower in LA complete with sloths and parrots By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 16:57 BST, 11 May 2021 | Updated: 17:07 BST, 11 May 2021 She’s due to give birth to her first child in the coming weeks. And … Read more
Parrots were carried across the Andes almost 1,000 years ago so vendors could sell their colourful feathers to customers in the Atacama desert, a study has found. Analysis of six mummified species revealed they were carried more than 300 miles from their native region in the eastern Amazon to the arid land across the mountains. … Read more
Parrots were carried across the Andes almost 1,000 years ago so vendors could sell their colourful feathers to customers in the Atacama desert, a study has found. Analysis of six mummified species revealed they were carried more than 300 miles from their native region in the eastern Amazon to the arid land across the mountains. … Read more
Not such pretty pollys! Five foul-mouthed parrots have to be separated after encouraging each other to swear in zoo The parrots joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre’s 200 grey parrots in August Parrots Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie have been distributed to different areas There were no complaints but the birds were separated for sake of young … Read more
Bird-brained: Parrots and crows have evolved ‘truly exceptional’ brain sizes while pigeons and emus have the same brain-to-body ratio as dinosaurs did 66 million years ago Birds and dinosaurs had similar brain sizes around 66million years ago After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs birds evolved relatively bigger brains Body size of some birds got … Read more
Today, I had been planning to turn the tables on Barry Cryer. Every month, Barry presides over an Oldie magazine readers’ lunch at Simpson’s in the Strand, introducing each speaker with a limerick. If you’re lucky, he may even tell one of his parrot jokes, such as this one. A man goes into a pub … Read more
Parrots are capable of understanding and acting on the balance of probabilities to predict future events ‘just like humans’, a new study claims. Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand worked with a kea parrot and found she could combine data and predict uncertain future events. The grasp of statistics was thought to be … Read more