What goals could they have done this? Why would a parrot want to kill the offspring of a couple’s parrot?

There is a strange reason behind.

Long -tailed green parrots, living creatures in the Caribbean and South America.

They usually feed on seeds, fruits and various flowers. This breed lives in the cavities of other parrots, on the contrary. The most striking features are the habit of killing each other’s offspring.

Compared to expert biologists, this behavior takes place with the fact that two birds, which are ready to reproduce and have a prepared nest, are flocked by two other birds.

A group trying to make sense of this behavior creates artificial nesting areas and placed them on a farm in Venezuela. In addition, these long -tailed green parrots are glued to follow color bands for tracking.

The result is a quite a mixer.

Is the deceased parrots die of illness or attack them a living thing, and is not understood in the first place. But the researcher team encounters a strange detail while watching some of the nests. Suddenly, a man who is not a parent of that nest comes and comes out with blood in his beak after a while.

Observations are continued and more than 2,500 nests are followed. Ultimately, it is understood that the basic competition in the middle of the parrots is not reproduction, but the desire to dominate the nesting areas.

The parrot puppies in many nests followed by the team either kill or injure the eggs there. Most of the raids take place by a single parrot or by a reproductive couple who wants to use the nesting area for themselves.

In other words, long -tailed green parrots find a way of analysis in this way because the resources provided by nature are not enough.

However, the desire of a parrot pair to mate, unfortunately causes the death of newborn pups. In addition, this puppy killing behavior is frequently observed in the nests where one of the parents died and the survival of the survivor finds a new wife.