Parrot genome analysis reveals insights into longevity, cognition Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birds Date: December 6, 2018 Source: Carnegie Mellon ...

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of ...

The blue-fronted Amazon parrot lives up to 66 years in the wild. Deni Williams via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Deni Williams In general, a bird’s lifespan tends to correlate with its ...

To learn more how these birds’ brains develop, Mello and his team compared the genome of the blue-fronted Amazon parrot with that of 30 other birds. They found that regions of the parrot genome ...

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The bird is also known as Amazona aestiva and the blue-fronted Amazon. According to the World Parrot Trust on Parrots.org, where else, the bird has a "wide repertoire of whistles, shrieks ...

The prima donna in question? A parrot named Molly. The blue-fronted amazon learned to sing scales from a former owner. Many of the parrots at this zoo and breeding center in Durban, South Africa ...

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of ...

The bird is also known as Amazona aestiva and the blue-fronted Amazon. According to the World Parrot Trust on Parrots.org, where else, the bird has a "wide repertoire of whistles, shrieks ...