tags: #publish links: [[Animals]], [[Animals Learning]] created: 2021-07-23 Fri related: [[Dancing Cockatoos]] --- # Cockatoos opening wheelie bins https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/23/cockatoos-in-sydney-learning-from-each-other-to-bin-dive-for-food-study-finds Uh-oh. They've learned to lift the lid and flip it over out of the way; to work as a team to do so; and to only bother opening the red-lid bins which have garbage, ignoring the recycling and garden-waste bins. The fun thing is this behaviour has spread (slowly) across the city as they copy each other and learn. https://theconversation.com/clever-cockatoos-in-southern-sydney-have-learned-to-open-kerb-side-bins-and-it-has-global-significance-164794