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Study shows 'selfless' parrots helping peers

All cross-border commercial trade in wild-caught african grey parrots is now banned. Unlike chickens, which will lay an egg nearly every day to replace eggs that are removed from their nests until their body shuts down from calcium depletion grey parrots will only lay a certain number of eggs, then stop, regardless of whether the eggs remain in the nest with them. The african grey (psittacus erithacus) from central africa is a highly intelligent bird commonly encountered in captivity. It's also important to point out that during this same time period, the world's biggest importer of wild-caught parrots, the united states, enacted the wild bird conservation act ( wbca ). This law severely restricts importation of all wild-caught birds (and parrots); effectively reducing the numbers of imported wild-caught birds (and parrots) from more than 100,000 annually to just several hundreds per year — a mere trickle, comparatively speaking. Baby birds that receive human  while Afric