Only decades ago, such cultural behaviors were thought to be a uniquely human trait. Sulphur crested cockatoos are outgoing birds common in human-developed areas of eastern Australia. Photograph ...

Who doesn’t love a good ’80s jam? “Obsession” may be a classic, but Animotion has nothing on these cockatoos shared by furbabiesplus.These two bird buddies are ready to get the party ...

In fact, the star of this video has to be the cute Goffin Cockatoo dancing his heart out while balancing on Dwayne's hand. "Simon is a 30-year-old Goffin cockatoo. He is a former feather plucker ...

Cockatoos are real problem solvers, and sometimes their problem is that their food is too bland. A new study by cognitive biologists has found that some cockatoos will solve that problem the ...

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.

Cockatoos season their food by dunking it in soya yogurt, preferably blueberry-flavoured, experiments suggest 1. In 2022, Jeroen Zewald and Alice Auerpserg at the University of Veterinary Medicine ...

"We had our red vented cockatoos plucking feathers overnight because they were stressed from noise," Dr Richdon said. "We would find debris from fireworks in animal enclosures, and our keepers ...

often pluck and self-mutilate themselves," she said. Rescues across the country are "inundated" with people trying to surrender cockatoos, but on average, it takes more than a year to find a ...

Moluccan cockatoos are highly affectionate birds that ... leading to self-mutilation, such as plucking their feathers, and constantly screaming. Other ways the birds act out include dumping ...