A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

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• below43 16 minutes ago
  Circus, in this case being the collective noun for the kea (New Zealand alpine parrots).
• teruakohatu 43 minutes ago
  Keas are amazing birds. There is a funny video from a CCTV camera that was setup to discover who kept moving road cones, turns out it was a kea:

  https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/12dkeex/...

  This paper is interesting but I do wonder if a kea with a disability in the wild would be an alpha, when food was not provided by humans.

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  • defrost 12 minutes ago
    Of course a disabled kea in the wild can have a family, just as a three legged dog can have a family pack.

    They, like many parrots, are social and live in groups of up to 10-20 birds.

    ~ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf...