The different plants and animals adapted to live in several layers of the rainforest.
What Is Parrot Fever? Parrot fever, also called parrot disease and psittacosis, is very rare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been fewer than 50 confirmed cases per year in the United States since 1996, although many cases may have gone undiagnosed or unreported (CDC).
Waterfowl suffer a variety of other afflictions, which are not a threat to populations but can be deadly to individual birds. Among these diseases is duck plague. This often-fatal virus is carried by naturally resistant birds or transmitted from domestic to wild flocks.