For the first time, this book describes the (to date) extremely secret lives of grey parrots in the wild. Thrilling essays will lure you into the forests of central Africa and to remote islands off the coast. The key to keeping the two Timneh grey parrot and grey parrot subspecies is knowledge of their life in the wild. New findings on the effects of hand-raising and the later behaviour of the birds, and also the problems that can arise time and again in their keeping, are explained in depth. Most important is the correct handling of grey parrots, whose “difficult psyche” is far too often misunderstood