GOFFIN Doing the training

[Greywings]

[h=1]Cockatoos teach each other tool-making tricks[/h] 3 September 2014 Last updated at 00:12 BST

Goffin cockatoos have shown an impressive ability to learn from one another how to use and even how to make tools.

A team of researchers has discovered that the birds emulate tool-making tricks when they are demonstrated to them by another bird.

In this clip, the "innovator" bird, named Figaro, demonstrates to another caged bird how to make and use a food retrieving stick.

In the second scene, the bird that has seen the demonstration emulates Figaro's skills.

Footage courtesy of Dr Alice Auersperg/University of Oxford/University of Vienna

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29038079

There is a video to go with this article.

[Timbersmom]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing

[2birds]

I have one of those little bird brains, they're a trip. Very smart at figuring out how to get what they want.

[murfchck]

Now if someone would just teach them that the wood on the kitchen cabinets is not the correct wood for tool making! Poor Koko looks like she is a hardened criminal with all the chains and latches on her cage, she is "too" smart for her own good!

[Greywings]

Well she was living in an area near a pair of Goffins in her last residence...may have picked up some tips on break outs. My U2 Harry was just as good he and hubby had an engineering competition that lasted about a year before hubby won that contest. He drilled holes in the cage frame inserted eye screws, ran a threaded rod through that with giant washers followed by wing nuts. A little challenging to feed and water but very effective.

[2birds]

Uh oh, I was just watching this video again and heard a little noise behind me only to realize that my goffins too was watching.

[Greywings]

Little Alien lifeforms plotting to take over the world, one home at a time.

[kins2321@yahoo.com]

Greywings... LOL! Too funny! Nancy