Just a quibble with words... blood parrots aren't really man-made -- they're note even test-tube offspring. The parents do actually mate, they just wouldn't have done so in the wild, but in the aquarium conditions they do.
As for not being cichlids, that's also not biologically correct. A cichlid is something from the taxonomic family of cichlidae, a blood parrot is in that family, so by definition is a cichlid. Just as a mule (same type of hybrid situation) is still in the same family as both its parents - the eqidae family.
Again, just some quibbling.
As for not being cichlids, that's also not biologically correct. A cichlid is something from the taxonomic family of cichlidae, a blood parrot is in that family, so by definition is a cichlid. Just as a mule (same type of hybrid situation) is still in the same family as both its parents - the eqidae family.
Again, just some quibbling.
