Macaws may communicate visually with blushing, ruffled feathers
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Parrots—highly intelligent and highly verbal—may also ruffle their head feathers and blush to communicate visually, according to a new study published August 22 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Aline Bertin of the INRA Centre Val de Loire, France and colleagues. The study extends the understanding of the complex social lives of these remarkable birds.