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

Though his mom was the one who wanted him, Charlie much prefers his dad. He's decided she's the Spare Human, and he treats ...

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 ...

Discover the unique foraging behavior of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos in a tranquil Australian forest near a chicken coop. Watch as these striking black cockatoos use their powerful beaks to break ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Murdoch University researchers have found that Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos have been drawn to a new food source – rehabilitated mining pits. Jessica Lee, a PhD candidate at Murdoch ...

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 ...

Scientists happened to notice some captive cockatoos dipping their food in water before they ate. They concluded the birds were likely doing this to change the texture of their food. Other birds do ...

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 ...