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What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia

, 2021
High global and domestic demand for parrots (Psittaciformes) as pets, and consequent removal from the wild for the illicit trade have significantly contributed to their severe decline worldwide.
S. Pires, G. Olah, Dudi Nandika, Dwi Agustina, R. Heinsohn   +4 more
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Encephalitozoonosis in a parrot

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1985
Encephalitozoon infection was diagnosed in a double yellow-headed Amazon parrot, Amazona ochrocephala. Illness was characterized by respiratory distress, decreased appetite, diarrhea, and weight loss. This gram-positive organism was present in renal tubules, intestine, and lungs. Ultrastructural features consisted of 5 polar filament coils and a single
K B, Poonacha, P D, William, R D, Stamper   +2 more
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Global trends of habitat destruction and consequences for parrot conservation

Global Change Biology, 2020
Human advance on natural habitats is a major cause of biodiversity loss. This transformation process represents a profound change in wooded environments, disrupting original communities of flora and fauna.
David L. Vergara‐Tabares, J. M. Cordier, M. Landi, G. Olah, J. Nori   +4 more
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Parrots will be parrots – understanding parrots’ behavioural needs

Veterinary Nursing Journal, 2012
ABSTRACT:In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the popularity of keeping parrots as companion animals. These beautiful birds have stolen many hearts with their playful behaviour and their ability to physically bond with many owners.
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Parrot: Efficient Serving of LLM-based Applications with Semantic Variable

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has enabled LLM-based applications (a.k.a. AI agents or co-pilots), a new software paradigm that combines the strength of LLM and conventional software. Diverse LLM applications from different tenants could design
Chaofan Lin, Zhenhua Han, Chengruidong Zhang, Yuqing Yang, Fan Yang, Chen Chen, Lili Qiu   +6 more
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Parrot away

ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Computer Animation Festival, 2015
Pierre, the ugly parrot, gets lucky when a fashionable pirate is just a little too fashionably late.
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Parrot: Pareto-optimal Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-to-Image Generation

European Conference on Computer Vision
Recent works have demonstrated that using reinforcement learning (RL) with multiple quality rewards can improve the quality of generated images in text-to-image (T2I) generation.
Seung Hyun Lee, Yinxiao Li, Junjie Ke, Innfarn Yoo, Han Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Qifei Wang, Fei Deng, Glenn Entis, Junfeng He, Gang Li, Sangpil Kim, Irfan Essa, Feng Yang   +13 more
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Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning

International Conference on Machine Learning
The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, marks a significant step toward artificial general intelligence. Existing methods typically align vision encoders with LLMs via supervised fine-tuning (SFT), but this ...
Hai-Long Sun, Da-Wei Zhou, Yang Li, Shiyin Lu, Chao Yi, Qing-Guo Chen, Zhao Xu, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang, De-chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye   +10 more
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REPEAT SPILLOVER OF BEAK AND FEATHER DISEASE VIRUS INTO AN ENDANGERED PARROT HIGHLIGHTS THE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH ENDEMIC PATHOGEN LOSS IN ENDANGERED SPECIES

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2020
: Conservation efforts for the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster), one of the world's most critically endangered bird species, have been hampered by beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) spillover infection.
Shubhagata Das, Kate M. Smith, S. Sarker, A. Peters, Katherine Adriaanse, P. Eden, S. Ghorashi, J. Forwood, S. Raidal   +8 more
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Birds of a feather? Parrot and corvid cognition compared

Behaviour, 2019
The last several decades of research on avian cognition have revealed surprising parallels between the abilities of birds — most notably corvids — and great apes. Parrots, albeit far less studied, are cited alongside corvids as “feathered apes”, but are
M. Lambert, Ivo F. Jacobs, M. Osvath, A. Bayern   +3 more
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