Meet Bruce, a captive kea parrot missing his upper beak, and the “first example of a disabled animal of any species ...

With half a beak, Bruce has developed an innovative fighting style that has won the kea top status in his flock, videos and ...

A kea parrot in New Zealand who lost the top part of his beak when young has developed a new way to fight other males that ...

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 ...

This kea parrot wasn't going to let a broken beak slow him down and he used it to gain respect from the rest of the flock.

While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding ...

"The bird missing his upper beak has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species." ...

A study reported in Current Biology shows how physical disabilities in the animal world can be overcome through behavioral ...

Bruce the kea parrot is missing his entire upper beak. By every measure of animal competition, he should be at the bottom of ...

Without a curvy upper beak to get in the way, Bruce the kea uses his lower beak to stab or joust at other birds in his social ...

Bruce the Kea parrot is missing the upper half of his beak, but he has turned this disability into a weapon to keep ...

The kea gained fame for learning to use a pebble to groom himself. Scientists were astounded by his next innovation.