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a pocket-sized dinosaur that learned your name just to roast you with it
means A small to medium-sized parrot with a long, tapering tail, often kept as a colorful and chatty pet.
from From the French 'perroquet,' meaning 'parrot' — and the trail gets murky from there. One popular guess links it to a diminutive of 'Pierre' (Peter), as if the bird were a little Pete chattering in the corner; another ties it to the Italian 'parrocchetto,' a small priest or 'parroco,' perhaps because the bird's plumage suggested clerical robes. Both are charming, neither is certain. What's solid is that the word arrived in English in the 1500s, hopping from French and Spanish tongues as European sailors brought these talkative birds home from the tropics.
- talk champ
- One budgie knew over 1,700 words
- feral flocks
- Wild parakeets now thrive in London and Brooklyn
- dino blood
- Direct descendants of feathered theropod dinosaurs
- UV vision
- They see ultraviolet colors humans can't
- loyal beaks
- Many bond for life with one partner
budgerigar — australian parakeet species, most popular pet parakeet with millions kept worldwide
monk parakeet — south american species now established in wild populations across usa, europe, and asia
rose-ringed parakeet — asian and african species with feral populations of 100,000+ in london since the 1970s