Participación en el periódico El Barranco y en El País de los Estudiantes

En el trimestre pasado, realizamos un artículo sobre Les Inseparables y poco tiempo después ese mismo artículo, pero en inglés, aparece en el concurso El País de los Estudiantes. A continuación os ponemos dicho artículo:




María López, Lara Pruna and Ellis Eaves./ Iº Bachillerato 

We are a group of three girls from the 1st year Baccalaureate of Science and Humanities. In the subject of Integrated Project our teacher suggested we do an investigation project, and after considering various options we decided to go with a project we’ve called: “Les Inseparables”. 

Our project covers the study of a type of bird that belongs to the parrot family, called Lovebirds, known to be inseparable. These miniature parrots measure between 13cm and 16cm; depending in which subspecies they belong, and come from areas of South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Madagascar. Their striking colours and their peculiar song have converted this bird into an exotic and fun pet during the last few years. 

We have chosen this subject because, apart from loving animals, we have realized that these birds are becoming ever more popular however many owners are unaware of their needs and when people don’t want them any more they just open their cages. This can easily cause their premature death due to low or very high temperatures or alternatively they can sometimes become acclimatised and start to spread around the local fauna.







In our project we touch on subjects relating to their history, breeding (where we have used the Laws of Mendel)… and most importantly the offspring. The chicks that are taken out of the nest after twenty days so that they can be hand fed with baby bird food so that they get used to human contact and we become friends.

In the last few months the sale of these parrots has increased greatly, especially the sale of chicks, for which we have added a guide on how to safely rear them into full grown birds acknowledging all their needs. 

Our knowledge of these birds comes from our own experiences with them, as two of us have two lovebirds various and one pair of these has had chicks, this occurrence has helped us make videos on how to feed them, their evolution, their needs, etc. 

If you have been interested by this and want to know more about these little parrots or would like to own one, here is how we can be contacted: 


- e-mail: 

republicadelosanimales@gmail.com 


- Find us on Tuenti: 

República de los animales 


- If you want to see how we’re progressing in our investigation you can visit our blog: 


Republicadelosanimales.blogspot.com