Birdbrain’s Way to Solve the Case

Cockatoos are the third animal, besides humans and chimpanzees, known to craft tools for different purposes.

Once presented with the tools, six of 10 cockatoos were able to get the treat out of a puzzle box. In experiments, they also understood which is the solution if they were choosing between two tools.

Most critically, cockatoos economise efforts by using their cognition power. When the box was far away from the tools, those gremlins carried the right one on the journey. They planned ahead like humans grabbing phone or keys before leaving a room.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/science/cockatoos-tool-use.html