QUEK TEE BENG FEEDS AN AFRICAN GREY PARROT WITH A SYRINGE AT HIS LABORATORY IN...

FOR RELEASE WITH BC-SINGAPORE-BIRDFARM - Singapore physician Quek Tee Beng feeds an African Grey parrot with a syringe at his laboratory in Singapore. Quek has turned a lifelong fancy for birds into a flourishing business and now sells his pampered - and raucous - charges to the far corners of the world. Quek runs one of the world's few commercial bird farms, breeding more than 1,000 birds a year of more than 150 rare and exotic species, including pigeons, parakeets, pheasants and even chickens, for export to countries in Asia, Europe and America. Picture taken May 29. ST/DL