Study suggests that mobile apps can be used to enrich the lives of parrots

A recent study conducted by researchers at Northeastern University, including Rébecca Kleinberger and undergraduate Megan McMahon, has shown that parrots can indeed benefit from playing tablet games. The study involved a group of 20 pet birds, ranging from small species like green-cheeked parakeets to the …

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Strong trend in Australia to keep domestic cats inside full-time has a big DEFECT

The kind of enriched environment I envisage for domestic cats confined to the home

Once again, we are told that Australia is changing the face of cat domestication in order to protect their native species, often their small native mammals which are particularly vulnerable to domestic cat predation. This is because historically they never had to deal with cat …

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