{"id":25381,"date":"2018-12-12T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=25381"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:43:30","slug":"new-research-secret-to-parrot-intelligence-its-in-their-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/new-research-secret-to-parrot-intelligence-its-in-their-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research: Secret To Parrot Intelligence? It&#8217;s In Their Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43636\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43636\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blue-fronted-amazon-px-898125-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"close up on head of blue-fronted Amazon that is tilting head to the side\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blue-fronted-amazon-px-898125-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blue-fronted-amazon-px-898125-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blue-fronted-amazon-px-898125-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blue-fronted-amazon-px-898125.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/parrot-amazone-blue-898125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DennisBuntrock\/Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a treat to discover news stories revolving around the feathered kind, and there certainly some fascinating findings to share.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a must-read compilation of\u00a0&#8220;birds in the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We who share our homes with parrots can see firsthand what research consistently points to \u2014 parrots are smart! Now science helps explain how parrots have set themselves apart from other birds. A new study of the blue-fronted Amazon parrot\u2019s genome suggests that parrots are as genetically distant from other birds as humans are from other primates. In fact, one neuroscientist goes so far as to conclude that \u201cparrots are [human\u2019s] parallel in the avian world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/parrot-genes-reveal-why-birds-are-so-clever-long-lived-180970983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>See how<\/u><\/a>\u00a0similar to the way humans evolved away from primates, parrots evolved away from other bird species.<\/p>\n<h3>Hiding In Trees Leads to Evolutionary Spark in Birds\u2019 Shiny Feathers<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44723\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44723\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/close-up-feathers-px-1952382-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"close up on a parrot's blue feathers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/close-up-feathers-px-1952382-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/close-up-feathers-px-1952382-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/close-up-feathers-px-1952382-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/close-up-feathers-px-1952382.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/feathers-plumage-blue-parrot-1952382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manfredrichter\/Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recent research links birds\u2019 pretty feathers to their evolutionary move to roosting in trees. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/birds-shiny-feathers-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fascinating article<\/a> reveals that birds\u2019 iridescent feathers evolved after they began to live in trees around 150 million years ago. In essence, trees afforded them refuge from predators and having that \u201cevolutionary peace of mind,\u201d evidently afforded birds the opportunity to develop pretty feathers to catch the eye of potential mates.<\/p>\n<h3>Laughter Contagious Among Parrots<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44726\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44726 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kea-parrot-px-2138420-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"kea parrot standing on pavement with beak open\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kea-parrot-px-2138420-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kea-parrot-px-2138420-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kea-parrot-px-2138420-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kea-parrot-px-2138420.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kea parrot. Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/kea-mountain-parrot-naughty-2138420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barni1\/Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Laughter can become contagious among people, and now research on New Zealand\u2019s Kea parrot (the only parrot to inhabit mountainous regions) shows that these gregarious parrots also like to get in on a good chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>See how this makes Kea parrots the first non-mammals known to experience <u>\u201ccontagious\u201d merriment.<\/u><\/p>\n<h3>Humans Copied Birds to Make Drones; Now Birds Are Defending Their Airspace<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25385 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"white drone flying over trees\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/drone.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/drone-flying-camera-remote-control-1866742\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels\/Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Google \u201cparrot\u201d and your search engine will likely display results for a popular brand of camera drone; essentially a flying, remote-controlled camera. Birds\u2019 biomechanics helped inspire drone innovators, but there are also increasing incidents of birds clashing with drones.<\/p>\n<p>See how drone operators are meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/01\/birds-vs-drones\/576724\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">resistance from the birds<\/span><\/a> who don\u2019t wish to share their airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out what scientists are learning about parrot genes, as well as research on laughter being contagious among parrots, how parrots\u2019 feathers evolved to be to so shiny and how some birds of prey are battling drones in their airspace in this look at this birds in the news compilation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Research: Secret To Parrot Intelligence? 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