It leads to an obvious change to suggest to people. You don't want to have your bird on the edge of a kitchen island or something where someone can come in and surprise him.

Owners need to give birds a really long line of sight to doorways or the approach of people. Don't put them next to a window where people are going to suddenly walk by.

Haitians are mobilized for change, that's why there's so many people in the street this morning.

The obvious explanation is it's kind of a surprise thing, the sudden sort of visual arrival of human beings, and this was something we didn't expect at all.

Essentially, a parrot is a monkey with wings.

A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each other are feather pickers, but that doesn't mean that they've learned it from each other. We wondered if unsocial things in the environment might be responsible for this apparent clumping of behavior.