Scientists say it takes 250 years, some termites, no wildfires, and a cyclone to make the ideal home for the palm cockatoo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Similar cockatoos were recently observed learning to open trashcan lids. But that’s not all these birds can do. A similar group of ...

A palm cockatoo chick has successfully fledged from an artificial nest hollow in Cape York, a first-of-its-kind result for a ...

Cockatoos make sound economic decisions about which tools to use to obtain a particular food reward based upon their assessment of the current "market situation", according to a study by University of ...

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 ...

A new study groups cockatoos into the “innovative tool makers and users” club alongside crows and chimpanzees -- leaving human children far behind. Again People had long (and mistakenly) thought that ...

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 ...

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 species of Indonesian parrot known as the Goffin's cockatoo can solve a complex series of puzzles to reach a reward behind a glass pane, a study has shown. Teams from from Oxford University, the ...

We watch through a home security camera as a cockatoo playfully calls out for "mom" while walking around a kitchen at night.

Goffin's cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport toolsets. Researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls ...