Lazy monkey hitches rides on parrots

What's a monkey to do when he can’t face the 8m (26ft) climb to the top of a tree? Simple – just hitch a ride on a parrot friend.

A lazy monkey hitches a ride to the top of a tree - sitting on the back of a parrot

This squirrel monkey is enjoying the benefits of befriending the blue and gold macaw by hopping on its back for rides.

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Laie couple lures escaped parrot home with pizza

To an outsider, Marc Myer and his wife would have appeared to be sharing a romantic pizza picnic outside the Aloha Center on the morning of Aug 20. In reality, they were teaming up to lure Dani the macaw parrot back into their grasp.

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Parrots may shed light on sight

Mitred Conure taking a closer look at Miami Springs, FL

PARROTS could hold the key to improving human eyesight, according to University of WA professor David Hunt.

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Parrots Living Wild in American Cities

Red-crowned amazon in Palm Beach FLFrom San Francisco to South Florida, populations of nonnative parrots—some imperiled in their tropical homelands—are thriving in U.S. cities and suburbs

ON A STEAMY spring morning, Joe Barros and Paul Bithorn of the Tropical Audubon Society were driving around Miami with their windows down, listening for telltale squawks. Winding through golf courses, residential streets and downtown parks, the expert birders were searching for parrots, and they found them all over the city: yellow-chevroned parakeets crowding a backyard feeder, mitred parakeets preening in a melaleuca tree, a colorful flock of Amazons—lilac-crowned, yellow-headed and orange-winged parrots—on power lines, even a pair of blue-and-yellow macaws that flew into a nest in a dead royal palm. In all, Barros and Bithorn spotted 16 species of parrots before sundown, a number that would be difficult for a birder to top anywhere on the planet.

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Owner of Pirates of Caribbean parrot jailed

The yellow and blue macaw starred in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Photo: IMAGES INTERNATIONALThe owner of a celebrity parrot which starred in Pirates of the Caribbean has been jailed after being caught driving with her pet bird on her shoulder.

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