Scarlet macaws are wonderful birds.
Painful to have developed an allergy to parrots after keeping them for 25 years.
Out there are at least 3 parrots I raised from eggs...my babies.
Raising Macaws.....
So easy, even a caveman can do it.
During the Renaissance, wealthy families in Florence, Italy, had monkeys and exotic birds as status symbols.
If they could be transported to Italy, this story about exotic bird breeding sounds plausible.
So, we must ask ourselves,
Why were these cavemen raising Macaws?
The answer is obvious to any experienced ornithologist.
For racing.
Cavemen didnt have TVs or asphalt paving or other forms of recreation, so they used to race Macaws.
And the Macaws always won because they had wings and could fly over the rocks and Sabre toothed Poodles and so forth.
Except for Flying Feet Gronk who could do the hundred in 9.5 or whatever his Fred Flintstone watch said.
There are archeological remains that suggest the first Pueblo builders were migrant Aztecs.
If that group of city-builders moved north from Mexico, then it is reasonable that they brought their pets with them.