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n2doc

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Wed Sep 3, 2014, 07:26 PM Sep 2014

Tool-Making cockatoo is able to Teach other birds its skills

http://videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/09/29906170001_3765801693001_6717e8315ba7e3fc642d0d5e85666bd8-mp4-high.mp4


Researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna who study Goffin cockatoos, say one bird who taught himself how to make and use tools is now teaching other birds his skills. Jen Markham explains.

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Tool-Making cockatoo is able to Teach other birds its skills (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2014 OP
Ha, hockeytoos. nt valerief Sep 2014 #1
They are no bird-brains, for sure! femmocrat Sep 2014 #2
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