Unlike a dog or cat who ' s life span is usually well under twenty years, a medium to large size parrot has a natural life span of fifty to one hundred years. Even a tiny budgie or cockatiel can easily live fifteen to twenty years and a Conure, thirtyfive. When kept in a clean environment and fed a balanced, quality diet, you can expect your healthy pet parrot to be with you for a very long time. Secondly, parrots can interact with you on a very high level. Intelligent and social by nature, your parrot has evolved over thousands of years to relate, in a communicative way, with its flock-mates who, in this case, are you and your family.
Parrots are extremely demonstrative with their loved ones.
Like primates, parrots spend a good part of their day engaged in social grooming. This mutual preening helps to increase and reinforce the emotional bonds the bird has with her mate and friends. Most amazingly, a parrot has the ability to talk to you. Unlike any other animal in the world, a parrot is able to learn to mimic sounds with uncanny clarity and duplication. Beyond the ability to copy the sounds, behavioral studies support the theory that your pet parrot can even appropriately associate certain words and phrases with specific situations.