While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding respect.

There’s brachiating, where a primate swings from perch to perch using its arms, and now there’s beakiating, where a parrot swings along the underside of a twig using their feet and beak A Peach-faced ...

Bruce the kea parrot is missing his entire upper beak. By every measure of animal competition, he should be at the bottom of the social ladder. Instead, he’s the undisputed king of his group — and he ...