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Plants & Animals Mar 25, 2024

New data confirms swift parrot population fears

A new evaluation from The Australian National University (ANU) of the number of swift parrots left in the wild has confirmed their population size is likely only a few hundred and declining rapidly.

Plants & Animals Mar 21, 2024

Parrots love playing tablet games, and it's helping researchers understand them

Touchscreens have long been integral to our everyday life—humans use them to work, play, talk with loved ones and snag Lightning Deals on Prime Day. In recent years, they've shown potential for the animal kingdom as well, ...

Ecology Mar 8, 2024

Threatened in their homeland, feral Mexican parrots thrive on LA's exotic landscaping

During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise ...

Plants & Animals Mar 6, 2024

What makes birds so smart?

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explain how it is possible for the small brains of pigeons, parrots and corvids to perform equally well as those of mammals, despite their significant differences.

Plants & Animals Feb 20, 2024

Oriental pied hornbills found to have object permanence levels comparable to apes

A pair of animal behaviorists at the National University of Singapore, has found, via testing, that Oriental pied hornbills have object permanence levels comparable to apes. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...

Plants & Animals Feb 18, 2024

Australia's most at-risk bird species share some common traits

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. The study is published in the journal Emu—Austral ...

Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2024

Secrets of night parrot unlocked after first genome sequenced

Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have sequenced the first genome of the night parrot, one of the world's rarest and most elusive birds. The development will answer questions about population genetics ...

Plants & Animals Feb 12, 2024

The good news: 25 Australian birds are now at less risk of extinction. The bad news: 29 are gone and 4 more might be

What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? Our new research answers these questions for Australian birds.

Plants & Animals Jan 31, 2024

Parrots found to use 'beakiation' to traverse small perches

A trio of osteopathic researchers at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine has found that one species of parrot uses its beak in a novel way to traverse small perches. In their project, reported ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jan 19, 2024

Humans can get their pets sick: Reverse zoonoses more common than once thought

For as long as humans have been domesticating animals, there have been zoonoses, also known as infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans. Recent public health stories about COVID-19, avian flu and swine flu have ...

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