Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes Pre-Inca elites wore headdresses made of feathers from Amazonian macaws

"A Nature Communications study reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago: from wild Amazonian parrots captured hundreds of kilometers away in the Amazon and transported, live, high over the #Andes."

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