Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated trade network—one it used to import live parrots across the Andes from the ...

Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Excavations on Peru's coast reveal pre-Inca parrot husbandry, radiocarbon-dated to 1100-1450, and long-distance transport from the Amazon basin.

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this forest consists of insects. These small creatures pollinate plants, ...

Parrots are famously chatty birds. They converse with each other, with other birds and even with their human companions. Research has additionally found that at least some parrots can understand the ...

I am not a native of Southern California. Since moving here over a decade ago, I have heard stories of the infamous wild ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...