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Alexandrine parakeets are relatively popular pet birds due to their long lifespan in captivity (up to 40 years), [18] playful behaviour and ability to mimic human speech. Alexander the Great is thought to have kept one as a pet. They are one of the most sought-after cage birds in the Indian market.
They were both metamorphosed into lions after having had intercourse in a temple. X: 575-668 [114] Hyacinthus: A beautiful boy loved by Apollo. One day as Apollo was throwing a discus and Hyacinthus ran to catch it, he was struck by the discus and died. Apollo made the hyacinth in his memory. X: 162–217, XIII: 396 [115] Hylonome: Female centaur.
Birds of a pair copulate frequently until the female is laying eggs, and the male mounts the female repeatedly each time a pair mates. [133] The house sparrow is monogamous, and typically mates for life, but birds from pairs often engage in extra-pair copulations, so about 15% of house sparrow fledglings are unrelated to their mother's mate. [136]
Image credits: gucci_eyelash Some countries take active measures to save children from possible embarrassment due to an unorthodox name. For example, Iceland has a list of 1,853 female names and ...
The young bird fledges after 18 days and remains dependent on its hosts for another 10–40 days. [8] The young of the host bird usually disappear although there have been records of the host's nestlings surviving alongside the young cuckoo-finch. [8] [9] Sometimes two cuckoo-finch chicks have been found in the same nest. [8]
The female blue-footed booby lays two or three eggs, about four to five days apart. Both male and female take turns incubating the eggs, while the nonsitting bird keeps watch. Since the blue-footed booby does not have a brooding patch, it uses its feet to keep the eggs warm. The incubation period is 41–45 days. Usually, one or two chicks are ...
The nests are open cups; of the few known, they are built of fine stems, leaf parts and rootlets. [2] Some hang from thin horizontal shoots of trees; in others the rim is attached to a pair of vertical twigs. Females lay 2 or 3 pinkish eggs. [3] The only information for incubation times comes from captive birds, and incubation lasts around 14 ...