Abstract
If secrets are invisible evidence, there is one secret about Woody about which I know almost everything. He himself offers in finite evidence. Woody is a loner, forced to existutterly apart from his kind, indeed forced to be a "self;' himself. Like most parrots, blue-crowned conures are gregarious, noisily social birds meant to live amongst their own kind, their own sounds. They know and feel things partly through the reactions of other blue-crowned conures, whom they think of as...