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Parrots use their feet for more different purposes than 

 do any other birds : they are the monkeys of the feathered 



Fig. 291. — Cockatoo perching with one foot and holding food with the other, 



world. They cUmb wires or branches one step after the 

 other, their beaks taking the place of a third foot in this 

 style of locomotion. They pick up food, such as a banana 



