But a new study highlights the surprising ingenuity of Goffin’s cockatoos, a species of white parrot, which has learned to soften its food by dunking it in water. A new study from the University ...

This is a video of several different Goffin's cockatoos transporting and using toolsets to fish for cashews. A cockatoo uses the first tool to punch through a membrane A cockatoo uses the second ...

Meet Figaro, a Goffin’s cockatoo. He taught himself how to turn cardboard into a tool. Birds, it turns out, are actually brainiacs. TOOLMAKING. At a research aviary in Austria, inventive Figaro ...

Shown are Dr. Alice Auersperg and Dr. Auguste von Bayern with Goffin cockatoos and a juvenile New Caledonian crow. The image may only be used with appropriate caption or credit.

In their study published open-access in the journal Current Biology, the group modified a puzzle box originally designed to test Goffin's cockatoos' problem-solving abilities to test those of the ...