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The parrot who lives in a Nanjing zoo ... and they were able to connect Huizai's original beak with the resin part with 11 bone nails. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Huizai ...

But these colorful birds grip the branches with an unusual appendage: their beaks. Rosy-faced lovebirds can use their adaptable beaks as a third limb that supports them even as they swing like ...

Parrots can work their way along branches by using their beaks to swing their body – a newly identified form of avian motion that has been dubbed “beakiation”. Parrots have a few ways of ...

Parrots don’t just hang out for fun. To move along narrow branches, a parrot can hang from a branch with its beak, swing its body sideways and grab hold farther along with its feet. The newly ...

Scientists have documented for the first time parrots using their beaks to swing across the underside of branches like monkeys move from tree to tree. Using high-speed video analysis, researchers ...