Lucy Aplin: Cockatoos have culture too

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Aug 5, 202142:39Science & Medicine

An unknown but very clever cockatoo in Sydney Australia invented a novel way of raiding trash bins. Teaming with citizen scientists, Lucy Aplin and her team tracked how cockatoos throughout the city soon picked up the sa...

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