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Forget floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. Enterprising fighters might instead want to emulate an endangered kea parrot named Bruce, who—despite missing the entire upper half of his beak—reigns as the most dominant male in his social group.
As scientists report in Current Biology, the daring parrot may owe his success to a unique, seemingly unbeatable “jousting” technique.
“This bird is using behavioral flexibility to compensate for a disability, which is really cool,” says Christina Riehl, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University who wasn’t involved in the new work. The findings, she adds, help illustrate how “ingenious” these alpine parrots can be.
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