"Twist the hem of your roomy top into a ball with a hair tie and tuck it in the back for a makeshift crop," she said. I thought the hack was genius. Many years later, not only are crop top outfits ...

(The crop is a distensible out-pouching of the esophagus ... Figure 2: Placement of a stainless steel ball-tipped tube in a psittacine bird. To complete the procedure and remove the tube safely ...