New research shows that variation in mating behaviors, parental care and differences in ornamentation of the sexes in bird ...

A new study has found that many companion parrots can learn and use names to address humans and other animals, sometimes even using their own name to seek attention. Researchers analyzed survey data ...

Birds don’t pair up, raise chicks, or show off bright feathers just for the sake of it. Something deeper shapes all of that.

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that’s desired, finding the words to express it, and then ...

Bruce the kea parrot is missing his entire upper beak. By every measure of animal competition, he should be at the bottom of ...

African gray parrots are highly intelligent birds that can learn to closely mimic human voices. Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr under CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED A few years ago, a zoo in Britain went viral for ...

There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies have shown that animals are also capable of intransitive ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March 19 ...

Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it in water. By Emily Anthes Emily Anthes previously reported on parrots who liked to ...