Professor Rob Heinsohn said while songbirds and whales can belt out a musical tune, few species recognise a beat. But the shy and elusive palm cockatoo, iconic to Cape York Peninsula in far North ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Source: JJ Harrison, via Wikimedia Commons. It’s surprising that tool use isn’t more common among parrots in the wild. After all, parrots share several key traits with primates and other tool-using ...

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 ...

A male palm cockatoo (right) drums with a stick while displaying to a female. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The ...

Palm cockatoos don't simply warble or croon like other birds. The northern Australian birds are drummers. These Neil Pearts of the parrot world break off sticks or seedpods and, holding the object in ...

Map of the study area at Kutini-Payamu National Park on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Dots denote display trees. Three clusters of display trees used for analysis are circled: North, ...

Like teenage Romeos toting sticker-plastered guitar cases, male palm cockatoos show that romancing a crush with a love song isn’t just about music — it’s also about style. This video from 2017 shows ...