BRADENTON, Fla. – A "Tonight" show darling from the end of the Johnny Carson era, a putting parakeet named A.J., is staging a comeback thanks to Web sites such as YouTube.com and MySpace.com. David ...

Tremica Wise’s 8th Ward shotgun house is tidy and cool: tile floors gleaming, windows curtained against the heat. She keeps the temperature between 60 and 70 degrees — not for her sake, but for the ...

Parrot fortune telling is a well-known form of Astrology in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Fortune tellers, like Satya Keerthi—who is profiled in this short documentary—train parakeets to sift ...

Parakeets are one of the most popular choices for pets. While the term "parakeet" encompasses over a hundred species of small parrots, for most people, it’s synonymous with one specific species: the ...

An astrologer has given a new spin to the craft of predicting a person’s future. While everyone else has trained parakeets to pick fortune cards, S Govindraj employs a guinea pig. The unusual modus ...