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Humans May Have Transported Live Parrots Over the Andes Mountains Along Sophisticated Trade Routes Before the Rise of the Inca Empire Archaeologists were puzzled when they found parrot feathers in a pre-Inca burial in coastal Peru. A new study suggests that the birds were captured in the wild and kept alive over lengthy journeys https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-may-have-transported-live-parrots-over-the-andes-mountains-along-sophisticated-trade-routes-before-the-rise-of-the-inca-empire-180988377/