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 ...

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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 ...

A study exploring dance behaviors in captive cockatoos has found that these birds have an impressive repertoire of 30 distinct moves—and some are even able to make their own choreographs by combining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...