First, these parrots learned to open trash cans to forage for food. Now, they’ve taken it a step further – and have figured ...

Birds in Sydney’s western suburbs have figured out how to get a sip from the fountains, even though they have access to nearby streams ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from ...

The birds, which have also opened trash bins, were filmed operating fountain handles with complex maneuvers. Researchers say ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...

Parental separation in humans can deeply affect children. But in another monogamous pair-bonding species, it has no such ...

The behaviour has spread among a mob of more than 100 sulphur-crested cockatoos that roost in the Western Sydney Parklands.

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are waiting in line at public drinking fountains in Sydney to have their daily drinks of water in ...

They had also learned how to flip open garbage lids in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Scientists wonder what they’ll work out next.

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink. It's the first such drinking strategy seen in the birds.

The species was declared locally extinct in 2016 and last recorded in the wild more than a century ago, wildlife officials ...

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