The ridiculously cute Cockatoo racing to see his favorite person in the world is the heartwarming content of the week, and we ...

Cockatoos often use grooming as a bonding behavior, which is why preening a favorite person’s hair, lashes, or clothes can ...

Munching on the wrong items can lead to illness, but social learning might help the birds avoid making a potentially deadly mistake. The phenomenon could help explain why certain cockatoos have fared ...

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For years, scientists have known that wild cockatoos are unusually clever. These birds can open bins, solve simple puzzles, ...

Cockatoo? Or bat?

When animals learn to live in urban environments, they are on a steep learning curve. There are new dangers to be aware of, ...

I love to look at them and think about how much I'd love to have one of them, only to know for certain that I absolutely ...

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. Researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls ...

Scientists have shown that cockatoos can learn from each other a unique skill -- lifting garbage bin lids to gather food. The research confirms that cockatoos spread this novel behavior through social ...