Monk parakeets in big colonies developed voice accents and made a greater variety of sounds, possibly to handle communal ...

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Monk parakeets could have a unique tone of voice just like humans do. [Related: The next frontier in saving the world’s heaviest parrots: genome sequencing.] “It makes sense for monk parakeets to have ...