Munching on the wrong items can lead to illness, but social learning might help the birds avoid making a potentially deadly ...

So the second a Cockatoo starts signaling that he wants the camera on him, it doesn't even feel far-fetched. It feels like a ...

If a friend eats it and is fine, they sneakily follow suit. This is the "tactical observation" employed by wild parrots, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos living in downtown Sydney, Australia, when ...

Merlin the Cockatoo gets a nice cup of tea every morning in his favorite bird mug. That's his mug: no one else drinks out of ...

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A new study groups cockatoos into the “innovative tool makers and users” club alongside crows and chimpanzees -- leaving human children far behind. Again People had long (and mistakenly) thought that ...

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...

It's been said a million times before, but Cockatoos are extremely smart with an intelligence level comparable to human ...

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are reporting that Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) engage in food flavoring behavior by dunking food into soy yogurt. Experimentally ...

Goffin's cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport toolsets. Researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls ...

Funny as this is, it also fits what makes Cockatoos such big personalities. VCA Hospitals notes that Cockatoos are highly social, demand a lot of attention, and thrive on companionship, routine, and ...

The only thing that people must do is stop shooting or poisoning these parrots and allow them to conduct their superior weed-removal practices in peace A flock of sulfur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua ...