After the death of his owner, Anton, Conor withered and appeared to lose the will to live. Tatiana, the widow, could no ...

Lovebirds, a type of parrot, have an incredible ability to use their beaks as a third limb while climbing, hoisting more than 70 per cent of their body weight using the muscles in their necks and ...

Scientists have documented for the first time parrots using their beaks to swing across the underside of branches like monkeys move from tree to tree. Using high-speed video analysis, researchers ...

Parrots can work their way along branches by using their beaks to swing their body – a newly identified form of avian motion that has been dubbed “beakiation”. Parrots have a few ways of ...

Parrots Have a Curved Beak One of every parrot’s most distinctive features is its curved beak. Known as a hookbill, parrots use it to crush and crack hard-shelled nuts.

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Accompanied by Guinean officials, the team met refugee leaders at Kolomba, a large camp at the tip of the Parrot's Beak, a thumb of Guinean territory jutting into eastern Sierra Leone. The refugee ...

Ted Richards, 57, is obsessed with his pet parrots and would give anything to look like them with the next step turning his nose into a beak ... By Natalie Corner 10:15, 5 Nov 2015 Updated 12:02 ...

The unique technique in parrots also exhibits “longer-than-expected” pendular movement, similar to the swinging method used by gibbons, but in a slower and more careful nature, they say.