Blue-throated macaws, a critically endangered parrot species, have demonstrated automatic imitation of intransitive (goal-less) actions—a phenomenon previously documented only in humans.

Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash.

Can you mix cichlids in the same tank and, if so, which ones? Jeremy Gay divides them up, analyses how their minds work and makes his community recommendations. Mixing cichlids is a bit like mixing ...

Few tropical fish stir up as much emotion as the Parrot cichlid, says Jeremy Gay. But should they be avoided? I remember the first time I saw a Parrot cichlid. It was in an advertisement in PFK in ...