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How Bruce the parrot landed at the top of the pecking order without a beak

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How Bruce the parrot landed at the top of the pecking order without a beak

In 2021, a disabled parrot named Bruce made headlines around the world after creating his own artificial beak. He didn’t stop there. Scientists reported Monday that Bruce has become the alpha male of his group. And he did that by learning to joust. The new study, published in Current Biology, is an important addition to … Read more

Bruce the parrot is missing his upper beak, but that didn’t prevent him from becoming an undefeated jousting champion

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A gray and green parrot looks at the camera, its beak open with the top of its beak missing. Grasses and trees sit behind it.

A New Zealand parrot that lost the top half of its beak has developed a unique jousting technique to achieve the highest social status, researchers report in a new study. During jousting, this parrot, named Bruce, uses its exposed lower beak to aim at the opponent’s head, wing, beak, or leg, but usually without making … Read more