When an Italian porn star brought his parrot named Amore to see Pope Francis on Wednesday, the pope treated the green bird with the dignity and respect owed to any parrot. The bird received a papal blessing.

An elderly widow from San Juan Capistrano who is hoping her pet parrot comes back to her says the lost bird was a living link to her late husband because it still spoke using the deceased man's voice.

When police in Dubuque, Iowa, stopped Jerald Reiter on Sunday under suspicion of drunken driving, they were surprised to find a baby zebra and a macaw parrot riding shotgun in his truck.

So it's come to this: the animal kingdom's most notorious mortal enemies, locked in an struggle as immemorial as time itself. Who will reign victorious over the half-eaten yogurt container — the dog, or the parrot?

Every day brings new, difficult choices to make. Should we go to Andover and learn how to rap, or enroll at Ohio University and major in fun? Should we switch to a cheaper beer? And should we trade our parrot for a computer and some cash, or keep the parrot and buy a computer instead?

You know that song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool? The one where the lyric, "Let the bodies hit the floor!" is repeated ad nauseam? Well, here's a video of a parrot doing his rendition of it—it's actually pretty amazing.

Most animals are cute. Further, most baby animals are cute—even cuter than their adult counterparts, one could argue. The exception to this rule? Baby parrots. Because baby parrots—especially baby parrots in bowls—are not cute; they're scary. Really scary.