In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and have now deciphered human water fountains. Photograph By Doug Gimesy, Nature ...

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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A few years ago, scientist Richard Major shared a video with colleagues of a sulphur-crested cockatoo in Sydney opening a closed garbage bin. The bird slowly lifted the heavy lid with its beak and ...

Scientists have discovered the latest fad sweeping across the sulphur-crested cockatoo parrots of Sydney, Australia: lifting up trash can lids to score a snack. In a new study this week, they detail ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A few years ago, a Sydney ...

Sydney’s clever and adaptable sulfur-crested cockatoos learn how to pry open garbage bins by watching one another. By James Gorman You’ve heard of trash pandas: Raccoons raiding the garbage. How about ...