Even better than this chatty African grey is the fact that he has a first and last name!

Quoted: When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught -- recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
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He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.
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"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

Very strange mass deaths of stingrays ... they said there were no signs that a zoo visitor affected the rays in the touchpool but that seems like the most likely thing if indeed there were no problems with filtration or temperature.

Quoted: Officials at the Calgary Zoo remained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out just why 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.

The juvenile cownose stingrays, about the size of a dinner plate, were kept in a "petting" tank where visitors were able to touch them, a common feature in a number of North American zoos and aquariums, according to the zoo officials in the Western Canadian city.

Ahh ... how sweet ...

Quoted: A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways.

Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she became so attached to the boat — which is shaped like an oversized white swan — that she refused to leave its side.

Officials in the western city of Muenster decided to let her stay with it over the winter, bringing both bird and boat into a city zoo.

However, Petra met a live swan this winter. Zoo director Joerg Adler says she and her new mate — a white swan — are building a nest together.

if they bred the "hexapus" with an octopus, would we get "septapus" offspring? ;)

Quoted: English marine experts have laid their hands on an octopus that's missing two of its own: a six-limbed creature that they have dubbed 'hexapus.'

Haha ... "Bloody hell!"

Quoted: A one-legged parrot that keeps slipping off his perch is to be fitted with a 'wooden leg'.

George, a ten-year-old African Grey, lost a claw after being attacked by a wild animal which broke into his cage a year and a half ago.

The missing limb means whenever George tries to sleep, he slips off his perch, squawking "Bloody Hell!" in surprise.

It is quite sad (and illogical) that humans are unwilling to leave sufficient room for the elephants but then are willing to kill them to make sufficient room for other species.

Quoted: South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.

heh. it's raining iguanas.

Quoted: Iguanas that toppled from trees in a torpor during this week's cold snap could spring back to life, experts say.

Just “don't take them inside,” warned Dr. Doug Mader, owner of the Marathon Veterinary Clinic.

“When they're cold and in a torpor - the reptile version of hibernation - you can touch them or handle them up. But when they warm up, they go back to being a wild animal.”

Some good news about the ocean to balance out the bad ...

Quoted: Amid rapid declines in fish stocks and fears about the impact of climate change, scientists are nearing the end of the first global attempt to stocktake the astonishing range of life in our oceans.

I'm so sad that Washoe has passed away. She was an amazing gal.

Quoted: Washoe, the beloved chimpanzee of Central Washington University, whose name is synonymous with The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) died Tuesday night of natural causes at the age of 42. She was the first non-human to acquire a human language, American Sign Language.