
Science has learned a great deal about complex social behavior by studying nonhuman mammals and primates, but parrots might have something to teach too. A new study — the first to quantify the social lives of parrots using social network analysis — provides intriguing new insights into parrot sociality revealing a sophisticated social structure with layers of relationships and complex interactions.
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