They don’t need feeding, cleaning or taking for a walk - they are the robotic pets for a generation of children raised on tech and tablets. A new era of sophisticated robotic pets, from lifelike ...

Alex, the parrot whose famous last words to his trainer in 2007 were: “You be good, I love you. See you tomorrow.” - Gerald Davis/Shutterstock “If a lion could speak,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig ...

Row after row of thin barred cages hold brilliantly coloured birds whose screeches fill the air with a deafening noise. Faiz Ahmed sits at a desk, oblivious, as he turns to a team of undercover BBC ...

Talking parrots have always been an amusement to most people, and how and why they are able to "talk" have been a mystery to most scientists—up until recently. A group of international scientists led ...