Parrots Taking Showers

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Parrots Taking Showers

From Parrots For Dummies: Bathing Your Parrot, Simply and Safely

Most parrots love to bathe, which softens dirt on the feathers and skin and encourages preening. If you bathe your parrot regularly, you will notice that his feathers will begin to become waterproof due to his preening duties. Bathing is important for parrots, whose skin can become dry and itchy, leading to plucking. It’s also important that any pollutants be removed from the bird’s feathers so that it doesn’t ingest any toxic stuff while preening.

 

What Americans Would Give Up For The Internet

How important is the Internet to us, really? That’s what Boston Consulting Group asked in their recently released study, which weighed the Internet’s importance on everything from the global economy (which will account for 5.2% of GDP for G20 countries by 2016) to individual lives (polls found that 21% of Americans would give up sex for Internet access, but only 10% would give up their cars).

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