Bologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.
![Two open folios of botanical illustration, plants colored green with surrounder borders, in a Turkish manuscript from the early modern period.](https://i0.wp.com/envhistnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DuyguYildirim_Image1.jpg?fit=612%2C460&ssl=1)
Bologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.
Oscar is a notoriously messy eater. Like all male Eclectus parrots, he uses his large candy-corn beak to pick up a piece of fruit and flings it across the kitchen floor.