Crafty cockatoos master dumpster diving and teach each other

Hawaii News Now ^

[nickcarraway]

A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity.

It’s quite a feat for a bird to grasp a bin lid with its beak, pry it open, then shuffle far enough along the bin’s edge that the lid falls backward — revealing edible trash treasures inside.

Intrigued, Major teamed up with researchers in Germany to study how many cockatoos learned this trick. In early 2018, they found from a survey of residents that birds in three Sydney suburbs had mastered the novel foraging technique. By the end of 2019, birds were lifting bins in 44 suburbs.

[nickcarraway]

Cockatoo's getting into our bins

[Aevery_Freeman]

That’s how Kamala got the vice-presidency, by kissing a Cockatoo.

[tallyhoe]

That bird is smart and ambushes..

[from occupied ga]

Outstanding! Pun of the month.

[mabarker1]

I’ll 2nd that !!!