Using 10 Goffin’s cockatoos, researchers from Austria and the UK made their discovery after carrying out three experiments as published in the journal Current Biology Friday. Goffin’s ...

Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food—but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a study published November 7 ...

In the new study, published Friday (Feb. 10) in the journal Current Biology, a separate team of researchers showed that wild-caught Goffin's cockatoos could use tools as a set, and can even carry ...

Two other cockatoos figured out different tool-using techniques to achieve the same result. (Goffin Lab) Several years ago, we introduced Ars readers to Figaro, a precocious male Goffin's ...

Dr. Auersperg and other researchers showed the innateness of this curiosity in 2021, when they reported that wild Goffin’s cockatoos use tools. The researchers observed birds, temporarily housed ...

a sign the cockatoos recognized when they needed their entire tool kit to swipe a snack. Some captive Goffin’s cockatoos, including this one named Figaro, learned to use a sharp stick to poke ...

Goffin’s cockatoos have been found to understand tools’ different utilities and to identify when a single tool will do, and when they need a set. This makes them, alongside chimpanzees ...

In an incredible (and perhaps disconcerting) video, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana) named Figaro plays a game of putt-putt golf. With seeming ease, the bird places a ball on a platform ...

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.

Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food - but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a study published November 7 ...

Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food -- but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a new study. Goffin's cockatoos can ...