Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and have ...

Bloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…? And so began an arms race ...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) are a large member of the parrot family. You will find these social birds across Eastern Australia and New Guinea, gathered in roosting communities. They ...

Residents of southern Sydney, Australia have been in a long-term battle over garbage -- humans want to throw it out, and cockatoos want to eat it. The sulphur-crested cockatoos that call the area home ...

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In Sydney, Australia, man and bird are waging a fierce battle over the most precious of resources: garbage. For the past several years, a team of scientists has studied sulphur-crested cockatoo ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita, living in the ...

Sulfur-crested cockatoos are trash-can bandits in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Humans use tools to protect their bins, and the birds then go the extra mile to break in. By Bethany Brookshire ...

When animals learn to live in urban environments, they are on a steep learning curve. There are new dangers to be aware of, but also lots of new opportunities. The quicker a species can learn how to ...