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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it in water. By Emily Anthes Emily Anthes previously reported on parrots who liked ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists first discovered that Goffin's cockatoos (Tanimbar corella) could use tools by accident, when captive cockatoos used sticks to reach nuts trapped behind fencing in a laboratory setting.