Cockatoos are sweet birds when they'd like to be. The problem is that a lot of them are sometimes sweet, but a lot of the time, very spicy. They're easy to anger, easy to rile up, and hilariously ...

We’ve covered the absolutely adorable and ridiculously smart Cockatoo named Furby plenty of times before, and if you’re a Furby fan, you already know his antics never disappoint. Recently, Furby gave ...

In 2008, a YouTube video featuring an Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral. His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body ...

Their analysis of a new set of videos reveals that Snowball — who lives at a bird sanctuary in Indiana — not only has rhythm but is also capable of creativity and spontaneity when he boogies. He ...

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 ...

Illustration of the 10 most common recorded dance movements. Ethogram descriptors based on Keehn et al. [3] and illustrations by Zenna Lugosi. Captive cockatoos have at least 30 different dance moves ...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos have previously mastered garbage bins. Now, it’s water fountains. In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...