We watched this clip in Brain and Behaviour - birds like this have brains that are proportionally as big as chimps. Interestingly, primates and parrots rarely share the same habitat as they are competitors for the same food - FRUIT. Seems like in the development of things the fact that both monkeys and parrots eat fruit accounts for their larger brain size portionate to their body size. Eating fruit is a complex behaviour in the untamed places unlike it is for most of us humans in Canada.
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Man, animals are the most amazing thing. I am consistently in awe at the complexities of their brain and emotion. I don't think we have fully realized their potential yet.
and he even has good taste in music!
ger ger
someday you will see the light
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