Cockatoos prefer their noodles dunked in blueberry yogurt: First evidence of non-primate food flavoring behavior
Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are reporting that Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) engage ...
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Gourmet cockatoos like to fancy up their food
Make mine blueberry: Goffin’s cockatoos add flair to plain vegetables with a dip into fruity soya yogurt. Cockatoos season ...
Plain pasta? No, thank you. Study finds cockatoos dunk their snacks in dip for flavour
Cockatoos are real problem solvers, and sometimes their problem is that their food is too bland. A new study by cognitive ...
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Cockatoo Dances So Hard To Britney Spears He Whacks His Dad in the Nose
I think we are all familiar with the phrase dance like no one is watching. One funny Cockatoo named Charlie was dancing so ...
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Clever Birds: Cockatoos Like to Dip Their Food in Yogurt for Better Flavor
The observed behavior suggests advanced cognitive abilities in Goffin’s cockatoos. Previous research has shown that these birds exhibit tool use, problem-solving, and even sequential reasoning, ...
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Some Cockatoos Love Condiments, Though Their Flavor Combos Are Questionable
“Although we normally challenge our cockatoos by giving them a problem and then observing how they solve it, this time the cockatoos showed that they had discovered solutions to problems that we had ...
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Curious Cockatoo Meets Otters at Aquarium and Becomes Immediate Besties
Both Cockatoos and Otters are super smart. Otters use tools like rocks to crack open shellfish, while Cockatoos can solve ...
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Cockatoo's Sweet Snuggles for Beloved Mom Are Full of Unconditional Love
Just feast your eyes on this gorgeous white cockatoo and all the precious snuggles this sweet avian baby gives to their ...
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Some Cockatoos Love Condiments, Though Their Flavor Combos Are Questionable
Well, it turns out this kind of behavior doesn’t seem to be exclusive to humans – a new study has found some Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) love a condiment too. The idea for the ...