Cockatoos are sweet birds when they'd like to be. The problem is that a lot of them are sometimes sweet, but a lot of the time, very spicy. They're easy to anger, easy to rile up, and hilariously ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary puts it simply: "birdbrain, noun, 1 : a stupid person." Well, the corvids and the cockatoos are having the last laugh with that one. Scientists who study bird brains and ...

In 2008, a YouTube video featuring an Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral. His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body ...

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 ...

A sulfur-crested cockatoo flips open the lid of a bin. Barbara Klump / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Sulfur-crested cockatoos don’t have the best reputation around their human neighbors in ...

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In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...