Despite their bright colors, their ability to “talkâ€, and their friendly personalities, it turns out that parrots are cousins of fearsome falcons, the most deadly hunters of all living birds. Although the idea that parrots and falcons are related is rather mind-boggling to some, the resemblance is easier to digest when you strip the gaudy plumage from the equation.
Falcons possess a razor-sharp indentation in their bill called the tomial tooth, which is designed to sever the spinal cord of other birds. Hawks and eagles lack this tooth, and are forced to rip their prey to death—sometimes taking several minutes to kill it. Incredibly, examination of certain parrots—including the famous lovebirds—reveal that they too possess a tomial tooth, which lends physical as well as genetic evidence to their link with falcons. --
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