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Global trade in parrots – Influential factors of trade and implications for conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Parrots are the most traded birds internationally, mainly to be used as companion pets, which threatens the global biodiversity. Using the large dataset derived from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...
David Tsz Chung Chan +3 more
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Core and Shell Song Systems Unique to the Parrot Brain.
PLoS ONE, 2015 The ability to imitate complex sounds is rare, and among birds has been found only in parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds. Parrots exhibit the most advanced vocal mimicry among non-human animals.
Mukta Chakraborty +10 more
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Nesting innovations in neotropical parrots associated to anthropogenic environmental changes
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Parrots are among the most diverse and widely distributed groups of birds and one of the most threatened bird orders mainly due to habitat loss and illegal poaching.
Pedro Romero‐Vidal +8 more
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Seroprevalence of Hepatitis E Virus in Four Species of Parrots in China [PDF]
Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 2014 In this study, antibodies against avian Hepatitis E Virus (avian HEV) were detected in 6.43% of examined serum samples (n=311) from budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus), lovebirds (Agapornis sp.), cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) and Alexandrine ...
Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Nian-Zhang Zhang, Dong-Hui Zhou, Wei-Peng Tian, Ying-Tian Xu and Xing-Quan Zhu
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Social Context Modulates Tolerance For Pragmatic Violations In Binary But Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
, 2019 A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals.
Grodner, Daniel J., Kim, M., Sikos, L.
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2022 Supplementation of nest boxes is a common practice to increase nesting opportunities for cavity nesters, such as psittacids (i.e., parrots), many of whom are species of conservation concern.
Fabio L. Tarazona-Tubens +4 more
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Animals, 2023 Contrafreeloading (CFL) is a concept that describes the preference of an animal to work for food even when identical food is freely available, and reflects an intrinsic motivation to engage in foraging-related activities.
Yvonne R. A. van Zeeland +2 more
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Biosfer, 2019 Parrots include in birds of Aves class and Psittaciformes order. In Indonesia, parrots in known by their local species names such as Nuri (true parrot), Kakatua (Cockatoo), and Perkici (Loriini).
M Nasir Tamalene, Said Hasan, K Kartika
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DiversityWe describe efforts to reintroduce the extinct-in-the-wild Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) within its historical range in eastern Brazil. Twenty captive-reared Spix’s Macaws were released, along with 15 Blue-Winged Macaws (Primolius maracana), as ...
Cromwell Purchase +6 more
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Fit for purpose? Analysis of the relationship between skull, beak shape and feeding ecology in Psittaciformes. [PDF]
J AnatPsittaciformes exhibit high levels of morphological diversity, particularly in skull and beak structure, previously linked to diet and body size. Although there were some levels of significance between diet and beak shape, body mass was a much stronger co‐variate. Diet is not determining beak shape within the clade.
Harrison SL, Sutton GP, Deeming DC.
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