cockatoos

Sydney: Woman forced to give McDonald’s to flock of cockatoos

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Cocky wants some Maccas: Charming moment a hungry cockatoo lands on a woman’s car window and demands a bite of her McDonald’s hash brown Merann Bartle, 51, was seated in a McDonald’s carpark in Sydney ready to eat A lone cockatoo landed on her side window and she offered him her hash brown Soon enough, … Read more

Wild cockatoos excel in intelligence tests, countering theory living with humans makes birds smarter

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Battle of the bird brains! Wild cockatoos perform just as well as those raised by humans in intelligence tests, new study shows Researchers in Vienna tested the intelligence of Goffin’s cockatoos They compared a group of lab-raised birds with a group of wild birds They found both groups performed similarly in intelligence tests The main … Read more