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 ...

Scientists have for the first time succeeded in observing self-control in cockatoos. Alice Auersperg from the Department of Cognitive Biology from the University of Vienna and her team has for the ...

A new study has found that pet parrots that make video calls to other parrots show signs of feeling less isolated Ellie, an 11-year-old Goffin's cockatoo, learns to make a video phone call to a ...

Goffin’s cockatoos are the first parrots found to alter hard foods by dipping them in water, possibly to improve the texture Naturalized Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana) chomping on a rambutan ...

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Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food -- but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a new study. Goffin's cockatoos can tear ...

In an incredible (and perhaps disconcerting) video, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana) named Figaro plays a game of putt-putt golf. With seeming ease, the bird places a ball on a platform before ...

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In the 70ties, self-control of human infants was investigated using the prominent 'Stanford Marshmallow Experiment': the children were presented with a marshmallow and were told they could either eat ...

From pocket knives to smartphones, humans keep inventing ever-more-sophisticated tools. However, the notion that tool use is an exclusively human trait was shattered in the 1960s when Jane Goodall ...

Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food - but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a study published November 7, 2018 in the ...