In order to live happily and healthily with parakeets or parrots, you should understand the science of animal behavior for domesticated birds, and consider the emotional effect of eventually losing them.

She keeps a parrot as a pet.

Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Northwestern University, is discovering that a parrot can not only mimic people but also learn the meaning of words.

Jack keeps a cat and a parrot at home.

But Pepperberg says working with the parrot has already changed the way of looking at animals.

Parrots imitate human speech.

A parrot can mimic a person's voice.

A parrot can imitate human speech.

Parrots often imitate human speech.

Parrots are the only animal that can imitate human speech.

Irene Pepperberg holds a round tray in front of a parrot she has named Alex.

Jack keeps a cat and a parrot at home.

She keeps a parrot as a pet.

You bought a parrot.