The cockatoos make it look easy, but as someone who has studied animal behavior for years, Klump could see that it was actually a really complex motor action. Klump stresses that, even though urban cockatoos have access to a lot of resources and a greater variety of food options, they're not all freely available, which is what makes this behavior what she calls "an innovation." In the last few decades, Major says their populations in urban environments have increased. "The amazing thing is just that they really found a way to access another resource," Barbara Klump, a behavioral ecologist at the institute, says.Ĭockatoos typically live in woodland environments and eat a variety of seeds, nuts and fruits. He wasn't sure if they'd be as into it as he was, but to his joy, the scientists were amazed. Assembling the bird brain trustĬurious to explore this, Major sent a video to some colleagues at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
If this behavior spreads, he thought, "There'll be cockatoos opening bins all over the place and they'll have this endless supply of rubbish." A cockatoo smorgasbord. But Major later began observing several of the birds actually opening the bins themselves, and now he was intrigued. He'd just assumed that those bins were already open and overflowing - nothing clever about that. "Here it was, just munching on a drumstick, and I thought, 'Oh god, this is verging on cannibalism.' Certainly once cockatoos start eating meat, we're done for." "The thing that really got me was when I saw a cockatoo fly up from a rubbish bin, sit on a electricity wire, holding a chicken drumstick in its foot," he says, explaining that a cockatoo can perch on one leg and hold its food in another. Major was a bit taken aback by the meal choice, but brushed the encounter off. These are good, self-respecting seed-eaters - or at least plant-eaters." "They're not something like ibis or crows that are scavengers. "I wasn't really expecting cockatoos to be rubbish bin feeders," he said. A few years back, he began noticing something peculiar in Sydney: cockatoos that were eating out of someone's open trash bin. Major has been studying Australian birds for almost 40 years.
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"They're really in your face and they're just full of life and mischief." There's nothing quiet about them," Richard Major, a bird ecologist, says. "They're quite raucous.They're flamboyant. But one bird that deserves more attention is the cockatoo.
You know the ones: jacked kangaroos, tarantulas, the inland taipan. When you think of Australia, it's hard to not immediately think of its eclectic animals. A second bird is observing it closely.īarbara Klump/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior More info: | tier-collagen.In Sydney, Australia, a clever cockatoo opens the lid of a trash bin using its bill and left foot. I love the beauty, power, loyalty, courage and friendship of animals. When I was little, I found every sort of pet and then hid it for my parents. “I’ve always loved animals, since I was a baby, unlike the rest of my family. If I go out with just one of my animals, the other get antsy and want to be with us. I know my animals very well and I can see their state of mind. So we get to walk together, have fun, go on adventures, have little breaks… We take some pictures and after the animals can play again as we keep going. Why? Because I am always outside with my camera and with my animals. “I think my animals like to be photographed. I also have a Harris Hawk named Phönix, a Weissgesichtseule named Gandalf, and a snow owl named Uschi,” Tanja Brandt told Bored Panda. He didn’t want to come out his egg and he was very small, the smallest. His six sisters were all hatched, and as he was the last to be born, days after the others, he was very small.
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