She has everything she needs: a loving mom, plenty of food, and toys to keep her happy. Most of all, though, this precious ...

One of the best traits of some exotic birds is their confidence. They know how to take charge of a situation, and they're adorable while doing it. This is Cumulus the Cockatoo. When he sees work that ...

A study exploring dance behaviors in captive cockatoos has found that these birds have an impressive repertoire of 30 distinct moves—and some are even able to make their own choreographs by combining ...

Scientists have long known cockatoos have rich social lives. But it turns out, those lives are particularly complex — and musically creative — when it comes to courtship. In a study recently published ...

Male palm cockatoos just might be the rock stars of the animal kingdom—but unsurprisingly, they mainly just do it for the chicks. The Australian bird is the only animal other than humans known to use ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all had the “this could use a sauce” moment. Whether it’s bread, a chip, or something else, we’ve all dipped dry food into some sauce to make it tastier. Apparently, cockatoos do it too. When ...