A new study reports that parrots who are strangers to each other “test the waters” by forming new relationships through a series of increasingly friendly interactions that are much like developing ...

Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal ...

Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat caused by greenhouse emissions, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a net-negative carbon economy, the bill will come due. A new study analyzes ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird parrot_mimzo/TikTok A video of a scarlet macaw reacting to a woman cutting a parrot cake has ...

The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing about a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. Many ...

Jim Mead was fishing 30 years ago on Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes of central New York, when he experienced what he believes was the phenomenon that has confounded the region for ...

For hundreds of years, people who have lived near Seneca Lake in upstate New York have reported hearing loud booms coming from the water. No one is exactly sure why. The Native people of the region ...

Over the past decade, thousands of African gray parrots have been exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo despite a ban on their international trade. The endangered species, Psittacus erithacus ...