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Birdbrain is a misnomer: new studies show birds’ remarkable cognitive skills

IT HAS BEEN A VERY BAD YEAR FOR BUD THE PARROT, but it has been even worse for his former owners Glenna and Martin Duram. Martin is dead, Glenna is in prison for his murder, and it was Bud, a witness to the crime, who tried to rat her out. Really.

In 2015, Glenna shot Martin five times in the midst of an argument in their Michigan home. A sensational crime became all the more so when Bud began repeating

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