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Cockatoos in Sydney, Australia, learned to use public water springs by twisting a handle, no matter how hard they move. Seemed to be a behavior they copied from each other.
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After the rangers reported the same kind of cockatoos using the fountains of drinking the west Sydney, Lucy Aplin In Australian National University and his companions temporarily mark 24 chickens – representing the fifth of the local population, or bubbles known to Australia.
Cockatoos with a fountain of drinking in Sydney
Klump et al. 2025
More than 44 days, chickens make 525 attempts to use one more popular fountain. Of these, 105 attempts 17 in 24 marked birds. It suggested about 70 percent of the population of more than 100 birds attempted to use the Source, say researchers.
In the natural surroundings, chickens drink from ponds or water collected in wood holes near their roost, birds as plots, as Aplin. “They used it in the morning and at night, that if we knew the cockatoos mainly do their daily drinking – after they get up and before they go to bed.”
Researchers saw some of the 10 birds waiting for their turn to a fence in a bubbler, even if the dominant birds jumped in the queue.
Only 41 percent of the observed attempts ending success – but drinking from springs is not meant for a bird, as the aplin.
“Birds should coordinate their body in a complex way,” he said. “They have to have a foot on the fountain of drinking and then the handle should turn around and quit their foot to keep their foot from preventing their footsteps.”
She thinks that birds cop for each other from each other after an individual or some individual working on how to do it.
“This is a clear example of cultural – novel behavioral moves in social – which can surprise many people who think culture is a wonderful person,” as Christina Zdenek At the University of Queensland, Australia. “Their ability to change access to new meals and resources of water is one of the most impressive of whole wood.”
Why do cockatoos make it? Aplin suggests that the water can taste more than the muddy pond, or they feel safer from predators. Alternatively, it can be a fad driven by birds for innovation.
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