Bruce the kea is missing his entire upper beak. Yet he is the alpha bird of his circus (the apt collective noun for a group of New Zealand’s famously playful alpine parrots).
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Interesting. I wonder if this is how some evolutionary changes happen? Will mates want partners with shorter beaks now that it’s ‘in fashion’?
