However, understanding your pet bird can sometimes be tricky. That’s why we gathered 7 signs your pet cockatoo trusts you, so ...

Cockatoos are sweet birds when they'd like to be. The problem is that a lot of them are sometimes sweet, but a lot of the time, very spicy. They're easy to anger, easy to rile up, and hilariously ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sometime in the 2010s a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo living in a sleepy suburb of Sydney, Australia, had a breakthrough. This bird, likely a large, dominant male, somehow figured out how to use its ...

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 ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

A sulfur-crested cockatoo flips open the lid of a bin. Barbara Klump / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Sulfur-crested cockatoos don’t have the best reputation around their human neighbors in ...

In a series of new experiments, Goffin's cockatoos were able to use a set of different tools to complete complex tasks. The brainy birds can decide which gadget works best and carry their varied ...

When you think of Australia, it's hard to not immediately think of its eclectic animals. You know the ones: jacked kangaroos, tarantulas, the inland taipan. But one bird that deserves more attention ...