The Second-hand Parrot: Everything about Adoption, Housing, Feeding, Health ...

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As a scientist who studies, lives, breeds and feeds parrots, I easily sympathize with Eileen Pepperberg, author of a long-awaited book entitled Alex and I. A way that scientists revealed the hidden world of animal intelligence and formed a deep connection in the process (New York City: Harper Collins; 2008; Amazon UK / Amazon America). This small and engaging book tells the story of Pepperberg and Alex, African gray parrot, Psittacus erithacus erithacus. A little? - Finally become her most intimate and longest friend

Genetically, the parrot is only one foot from the jungle. Unlike human domestic dogs, parrot DNA is not altered by selective breeding to eventually develop a function that will benefit humans. Please forget everything you know about dogs. None of these are suitable for raising parrots or helping you to understand their motives and behaviors. The parrot lived for a very long time. 60 to 70 years is not unusual. Raising a parrot is a promise of my life. How old are you? Who will look after your parrot when you pass? What happens when a parrot and a parrot disappear suddenly as they form a lifelong bout?