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This ex-parrot has not been nailed on its perch but it has been hung upside down from a crane. The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch where ...

Here at The Gist we deeply admire everything that Monty Python has done for science (including but not limited to their work with silly walks, confused cats, migrating swallows, etc.).*** But who ...