Cockatoos are the one pet I'll spend my whole life wishing I could have but knowing I can never have. It would be a ...

We share a fascinating example of how biocultural negotiation with an indigenous population is helping to save an endangered ...

The Tropical Beak Club is no stranger to the antics of parrots like these, but this was one of the funniest examples. The two ...

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 ...

Urban flock of about 200 birds is genetically diverse and thriving well outside of its natural habitat, the jungles of Indonesia ...

One set of neighbors thought that's what they were dealing with, but they were in for a big surprise when they found out it ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Scientists have long known cockatoos have rich social lives. But it turns out, those lives are particularly complex — and musically creative — when it comes to courtship. In a study recently published ...

“It’s critical that we’ve been on the front foot, implementing mitigation strategies to reduce the risk to our wonderful animals.” ...

Human-wildlife relationships are a little different Down Under. Rather than worry about hitting a deer, Aussie drivers fret about kangaroo and wallaby collisions. And instead of guarding their trash ...

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 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 ...