Polly want a video chat! Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with scientists from MIT and the University of Glasgow, taught a group of parrots across a range of species how to ...

A new study published in PLOS One found that many parrots can learn and appropriately use names to identify humans and other animals. Researchers surveyed 889 companion parrots and found 88 ...

New research combining field and captive studies shows parrots can learn and use specific vocal labels for individuals, similar to human names. Wild studies reveal socially learned contact calls, ...

Parrots are highly intelligent, social creatures. In the wild, they spend most of their time interacting with other parrots—preening one another, foraging together and roosting in groups at night.

The ability to learn by watching others interact had previously only been documented in humans, making macaws just the second species to demonstrate this ability (humans being the first). A captive ...

An estimated 20 million parrots are kept as household pets in the United States. Parrots are flock animals, though, who can suffer from loneliness when kept alone as a pet. So, researchers at ...