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How Bruce the half‑beak kea weaponized his disability to become the alpha bird

Bruce the kea is missing his entire upper beak.

Source Phys.org AI Summary Updated April 21, 2026

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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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