Of parrots and people : the sometimes funny, always fascinating, and often catastrophic collision of two intelligent species
by Tweti, Mira.
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From the Publisher: There are an estimated 50 million parrots kept as pets the U.S. alone, their numbers surpassed only by dogs and cats, yet these complex creatures are not your typical domesticated animal, and they remain a mystery to many. Most people don't know that parrots score at the level of... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Bird brains
- Parrots and parronts
- No joy: the crisis of unwanted birds
- Naturalized psittacines: America's avian immigrants
- From the wild life to captive breeders: the legal parrot trade in the United States
- Death row and a death row reprieve: the notorious Scudder's Parrot Depot and the stellar Cockatoo Rescue
- A bird in a cage is worth two in the bush: the illegal trapping and wild harvesting of parrots around the globe
- Smuggling
- The invisible man
- A Brazilian journey with global parrot conservationist Charles Munn
- The journey continues to the rarest macaws in the world, Lear's and Spix's
- Repercussions, ramifications, and solutions.