Urban bird behavior: Sydney cockatoos quickly mimicked trained peers’ almond color choices, helping them identify safe new foods. Whale hunger crisis: A juvenile gray whale’s fatal upriver journey was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, trust is something that you have to build and it doesn't happen overnight. Though, the good news is, cockatoos are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it in water. By Emily Anthes Emily Anthes previously reported on parrots who liked to ...

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 ...

Each night around sundown, cockatoos in western Sydney gather for a ritual: After waiting in line on a fence, they take turns at a drinking fountain, gripping the handle with their feet and leaning ...

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Goffin’s cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport toolsets. In a study publishing in the journal Current Biology on February 10, researchers show that ...

We’ve covered the absolutely adorable and ridiculously smart Cockatoo named Furby plenty of times before, and if you’re a Furby fan, you already know his antics never disappoint. Recently, Furby gave ...

It's true: cockatoos are beautiful, playful birds in the parrot family, full of personality and charm that makes them wonderful pets. Seeing how these feathered friends can live up tp 25 years, that ...