Whether a pet budgie or cockatoo, birds are not naturally aggressive. When they suddenly bite or shriek, they’re trying to tell you that they’re unhappy about something in their environment. In other ...

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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 ...

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 to ...

Cockatoos are never on their best behavior. They seem to be incapable of minding their own business and doing what they're told to do. For a human, those would be some of the most annoying traits, but ...

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...