The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

A budgie called Puck had a vocabulary of about 1728 words, according to Guinness World Records. “The ability to vocally imitate is something that is extremely rare in the animal kingdom,” says Long.

You have full access to this article via your institution. Although, many publications describe diseases in budgerigars, they are not generally available in the laboratory animal literature.

as well as animals of Australian origin that are now domesticated in Europe, such as the budgerigar. Extreme cold formed a sensitive ecosystem at the North and South Poles. Discover polar bears ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for studying human speech, helping scientists to better understand and treat ...