"Seeds, nuts and fruits. That's what I like to eat. With my strong beak, I can crack the hardest nuts!"
Discover in real lifeFood
seeds, nuts and fruits
Lifetime
35 years on average
Weight
0.9 to 1.8 kilograms
Number of youngsters
2 to 3 eggs
Breeding time
approximately 24 to 28 days
IUCN Status
safe
EEP?
no
35
years, that's how old I can get!
2
this many kilos I weigh at most
Seeds, nuts and fruits. That's what I like to eat. With my strong beak, I can crack the hardest nuts. When I look for food, I like to do it with a whole group of parrots together. We make a lot of noise in the process.
Also when I see danger I make loud noises as I fly into the sky. When we fly together, we do so very close together. The tips of our wings almost touch. We talk to each other all day long and imitate each other's sounds.
A parrot kept as a pet without another parrot will imitate the words and sounds of humans. Parrots do not understand what they are saying then but repeat the sounds they have learned.
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