Palm cockatoos beat drum like Ringo Starr
Professor Rob Heinsohn said while songbirds and whales can belt out a musical tune, few species recognise a beat.
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Jun 28, 2017
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News tagged with cockatoo
Scientists start to unlock secrets of bird flight
(AP) -- For millennia, people have watched the birds and bees and wondered: "How do they do that?" Thanks to high-speed film and some persistent scientists, at least one of the secrets of flight is now revealed. When birds, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2009
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Cockatoo 'can make its own tools' (w/ Video)
A cockatoo from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects.
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2012
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An arms race over food waste: Sydney cockatoos are still opening curbside bins, despite our best efforts to stop them
Bloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…?
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Sep 17, 2022
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By keeping the beat, sea lion sheds new light on animals' movements to sound
A California sea lion who bobs her head in time with music has given scientists the first empirical evidence of an animal that is not capable of vocal mimicry but can keep the beat, according to new research published by ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2013
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Clever cockatoos learn through social interaction
For the first time, a team of international scientists have proven that cockatoos, an iconic Australian bird species, learn from each other a unique skill—lifting garbage bin lids to gather food. The world-first research ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2021
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$3.3m aid for threatened species
Gorillas, cockatoos and frogs are among a list of threatened species to benefit from a $3.3 million (2.4 million euro) aid award, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Thursday.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2012
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Cockatoos make economic decisions about tool use depending on the current 'market' situation
As animal tool use events are extremely rare, is often quickly rated as intelligent. Nevertheless, some types of tool use can be controlled by much simpler processes that are a part of the respective animal's inborn behavioural ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2016
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Doing business with a parrot: Goffin cockatoos trade with nuts in an exchange experiment
The team of Alice Auersperg from the Department of Cognitive Biology from the University of Vienna has for the first time succeeded in observing self-control of cockatoos in exchange experiments. The results of this research ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2013
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Captive Goffin's cockatoos found to dunk hard bread to improve its texture
A pair of veterinary medicine researchers at Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, in Austria, has found that some captive Goffin's cockatoos prefer to dunk their hard bread before eating it, seemingly as ...
