Back in 2022, wildlife biologists confirmed that a community of wild, sulfur-crested cockatoos in Sydney, Australia had learned how to open the lids of curbside trash bins on garbage day in order to ...

Wild cockatoos in Western Sydney have learned to drink from water fountains — choosing to drink from them even if they have ...

(Learn how Australia’s palm cockatoo uses a tool to make music.) In the course of the study, the scientists spent time habituating themselves to some 500 suburban cockatoos.

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from Western Sydney University, in Australia, has discovered that wild cockatoos ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from Western Sydney University, in Australia, has discovered that wild cockatoos ...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney parks are forming queues to drink from public fountains, ... They are wild sulphur-crested cockatoos, ... in southeastern Australia.

And the sulphur-crested cockatoo is taking it on the chin (well, beak). A screenshot from the researcher’s video, showing the cockatoos drinking from a water fountain. Image credit: Klump et al, ...

Wild cockatoos have figured out how to open garbage can lids, and the practice is spreading due to social learning. parrots. Wild cockatoos have figured out how to open garbage can lids, ...

Residents of southern Sydney, Australia have been in a long-term battle over garbage — humans want to throw it out, and cockatoos want to eat it. The sulphur-crested cockatoos that call the area home ...

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyHuman-wildlife relationships are a little different Down Under. Rather than worry about hitting a deer, Aussie drivers fret about kangaroo and wallaby ...