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

Everybody wants a love like this.

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 ...

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

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

Human-wildlife relationships are a little different Down Under. Rather than worry about hitting a deer, Aussie drivers fret about kangaroo and wallaby collisions. And instead of guarding their trash ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mom asks, “Are we going to be best friends?” A reasonable question. Hopeful. Warm. Full of possibility. And the Cockatoo, ...