The San Antonio Zoo's newest arrival was a birth years in the making. The zoo welcomed a baby palm cockatoo this week. Zoo officials said the birth of the cockatoo is the first successful hatching of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that humans aren't the only species that can play musical instruments. After seven years of observing 18 male palm cockatoos in Australia's Cape York Peninsula, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...