Cockatoos, like every other pet, often pick a favorite. Whether that's a person or another pet, they have one, and they're ...

Chris the Cockatoo is the goofiest bird in the world. He loves being alive, and more than that, he loves his Grandma. He gets ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The crafty cockatoos have done it again. A new study published ...

Rowdy has everyone laughing with his love of dance, but his unique look can stir up a lot of questions, too. Salmon-crested, ...

Carmen is a rescue, and a fairly recent one at that. Like many Cockatoos are, he was re-homed by his previous family for ...

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. In a study publishing in the journal Current Biology on February 10, researchers show that ...

Many animals are known to make tools to help them find food or achieve other everyday goals, but advanced toolmaking skills are rarer. Now, wild cockatoos have been seen making sets of tools, each ...

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 ...

A new study finds that the birds have flexible problem-solving skills. July 5, 2013— -- Getting called a birdbrain might not be such an insult after all. A new study published in the journal PLoS ...

A new study finds that problem-solving cockatoos can combine simple tools to accomplish a task, which is a cognitive ability that only a very few primates were previously known to perform The goal of ...

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 ...