A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

6 comments

• ggm 2 minutes ago
  Given species intelligence isn't this FDR?

  we have nothing to Kea except Kea itself
• senorqa 27 minutes ago
  Thanks to this article my WOTD is: allopreening - The mutual preening of two birds. Probably one of the most obscure words I've come across recently.
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  • manarth 23 minutes ago
    You may also like allogrooming, which takes place in a wide variety of species
• teruakohatu 1 hour ago
  Keas are amazing birds. There is a funny video from a CCTV camera that was setup to discover who kept moving road cones, turns out it was a kea:

  https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/12dkeex/...

  This paper is interesting but I do wonder if a kea with a disability in the wild would be an alpha, when food was not provided by humans.

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  • defrost 42 minutes ago
    Of course a disabled kea in the wild can have a family, just as a three legged dog can have a family pack.

    They, like many parrots, are social and live in groups of up to 10-20 birds.

    ~ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf...
• below43 47 minutes ago
  Circus, in this case being the collective noun for the kea (New Zealand alpine parrots).
• Razengan 28 minutes ago
  Just wanna say birds are amazing in general. I really hope they along with cephalopods and fungi get their shot at intelligent civilization after we're gone.
• dandanua 16 minutes ago
  Trump is a demented alpha male that currently runs a circus too. This is what really poorly understood.