Study is the first to document #dialect differences in a #parrot across its European range
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-document-dialect-differences-parrot-european.html

Multilevel Bayesian analysis of monk #parakeet contact calls shows #dialects between European cities https://academic.oup.com/beheco/advance-article/doi/10.1093/beheco/arad093/7444942

"In the 50 years since #MonkParakeets arrived in #Europe and spread across the continent, the species has developed distinct dialects that vary across countries and cities"

Study is the first to document dialect differences in a parrot across its European range

In the 50 years since monk parakeets arrived in Europe and spread across the continent, the species has developed distinct dialects that vary across countries and cities, according to a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institutes of Animal Behavior in Konstanz and for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

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Monk parakeets shown to lose social standing during an absence

Monk parakeets take that saying to heart, according to new research by the University of Cincinnati.

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