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The Goffin Labs, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Prof. Alice Auersperg
Dr. Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró
Dr. Mark O’Hara
Berenika Mioduszewska
Dr. Isabelle Laumer
Keene & Kirkland, UW Medicine
Bene Croy
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Auersperg AM, Borasinski S, Laumer I, Kacelnik A. Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Biol Lett. 2016 Nov;12(11):20160689. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0689.
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@MJTroper
Wow, these birds make New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian Crows.
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@crispyandspicy6813
"Girl are you an ornithologist? Cuz you look like you've worked with a cockatoo."
The Ornithology school board decided to fire me. I don't get why.
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@aussiebloke609
0:47 "Oh crap, you lost your - oops. Deus ex machina." Had me in stitches. 😁😂🤣
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@markkarasik2211
I had a Goffin’s cockatoo, and he was an escape artist. More than once I came home from work to find my dog hiding and Sherman marching around proudly like he owned all he saw!
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@solitairee-man
@2:05 "Figaroo'd" out. I love this channel.
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@MyKutie
I would LOVE to see if Cockatoos and Ravens would be able to trade techniques if allowed to observe each other. Their beaks are pretty much as opposite as they can be, one very straight and the other intensely curved, but both can make sticks into tools to get stuff
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@Ironwolf-pm7zs
Hearing Zefrank say “Byrrrrd” is audible antidepressant.
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@honeyLXIX
10:43 i seen a cockatoo 🦜 💃
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@keithbowman7650
African Grey parrots are super smart. My friend's mom had one named Cooper. Cooper could imitate my friend's mom's voice so well that he could call to us from downstairs, and we would go down there thinking that she needed us for something. When we got down there and realized it was just Cooper, he would laugh at us. He did the same thing with the house phone. He would call the cat over and then bark at her, too. It's amazing how smart they are.
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@DuchessofEarlGrey
9:58 Reminds me of that video of a monkey experiment, where two monkeys in separate cages were given fruit as a reward for giving the researcher a pebble. One monkey got a slice of cucumber, then the other got a grape. When the first monkey got a cucumber the second time, it THREW the slice away and suck its arm out for a grape! Even animals demand equal pay for equal work.
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@2ontheroad78
Aaaaaannd I now have a new favorite Ze Frank song. "I seen a Cockatoo."
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@Kiinell
Just goes to show how bored these poor birds must get when unstimulated. I hope anyone considering buying one sees videos like this, so they know what they're taking on.
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@delicate_genius
You're doing great, Jerry.
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@purplehaze2358
You can just tell Figuro was having the time of his life with those experiments. It's just a game to him with food involved, he's definitely in on it.