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 ...

These Parrots Use Their Beaks to Swing Across Branches Like Monkeys Scientists have documented the unusual movement, dubbed “beakiation,” for the first time Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent ...

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.

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 ...

Life Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not immobile ones as ...

By Cang Wei In Nanjing (China Daily)Updated: 2016-04-22 07:32 Comments Print Mail Large Medium Small ...

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.