Green-rumped parrotlets can be caretakers–or killers. By Laura Baisas Published May 8, 2024 9:41 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Before learning to speak, human babies go through a vocal stage known as babbling, which is a well documented part of the vocal language acquisition process. Basically, babbling is how an animal ...

A green-rumpled parrotlet widow and her nestlings. The behavior of the nestlings — spilling out of the cavity begging for food — indicates that they aren't getting enough food. A team of University of ...

A newly published UC Berkeley-led study compiles nearly 30 years of research and observations of the green-rumped parrotlet, a small South American parrot, and their behavioral patterns of infanticide ...

One tiny parrotlet species stops at nothing to pass down its genes, even if that requires it to kill a new mate’s chicks right in the nest 1. Steven Beissinger at the University of California, ...

Source: Barloventomagico, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. In a new study, researchers report that baby parrots in the wild quietly babble to themselves in their nests. The ...

Jen Greenburg, also known as The Green Bird Brigade on her social media channels, is a proud mom to many rescued birds. One of them, a parrotlet named Talon, takes his 8 p.m. bedtime very seriously.

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Hopkin: Even sweeter are the sounds they make when they’re just beginning to explore their vocal capabilities. [CLIP: Baby babbling] Hopkin: But human babies are not unique—at least when it comes to ...