Parrots can talk because they are exceptional vocal learners. Instead of being born knowing every sound, they listen, copy, ...

Parrots can talk because they are exceptional vocal learners. Instead of being born knowing every sound, they listen, copy, ...

Parrots may be doing more than just repeating words—they may actually use names. By analyzing hundreds of recordings from pet parrots, researchers found evidence that many birds use specific names to ...

That's a line from a Yeats' poem, appropriately entitled "A Drinking Song." Love did indeed come "in at the eye" for the distinguished classics scholar Mary Beard. In her new book called, Talking ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Mike Segar/Abdul Saboor/Reuters Human beings are highly social creatures, made happier and ...

A C-SPAN caller expressed major grievances with Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) during a Friday appearance on the network, asking why Republicans repeat President Donald Trump’s “crazy Fox News talking ...

The AI takeover of Hollywood has not happened yet, though there are plenty out there who want us to think it’s coming any day now. Sure, Disney’s partnership OpenAI hit a pretty major roadblock when ...

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Out crabbing, Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon sprang a leak. The longtime friends and musical collaborators were taking a break from the studio, from working on their new album, The Great Parrot-Ox ...

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While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding respect. Bruce the kea parrot lost his upper beak, but his disability hasn ...

Bruce the kea—a species of alpine parrot native to New Zealand—lost his upper beak in an accident as a young bird. But that hasn’t stopped him from becoming the dominant male in his kea community ...