Before eating, these parrots dunk their food in water
Just like some of us enjoy rusk dipped in coffee or tea, intelligent cockatoos delight in eating rusk dipped in water.
Source: zmescience.com
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Get dunked on: these Indonesian cockatoos dunk their biscuits in water
Cockatoos like to dunk their biscuits before eating, according to a pair of researchers from the University of Vienna, Austria.
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
Polly Wants a Cracker, but She Wants to Make It Easier to Chew
Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it in water.
Jeroen Zewald Louis Lefebvre Alice Auersperg Jeroen Zewald Goffin Lab Mcgill University University Of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Source: nytimes.com
Cockatoos can not only use tools, they can carry whole toolkits
The ability to solve problems with multiple tools is a rare talent in the animal kingdom, but according to ...
Source: 9news.com.au
Cockatoos can combine tools to complete complex tasks
Three cockatoos figured out how to use a stick to manoeuvre a ball into the right position to release the treat, according to experts led by the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
Sarah Beck Alice Auersperg Antonio Osuna Mascar Messerli Research Institute Goffin Lab University Of Veterinary Medicine
Source: dailymail.co.uk