One day four years ago, at the Goffin Lab in Vienna, Figaro the cockatoo saw pebble sitting outside his cage. Figaro wanted the pebble, but how could he get it from where he was? Figaro had the most amazing idea. He tried to get the pebble using a shard of bamboo.
Impressed, the researchers replaced the pebble with a cashew, triggering Figaro to stick his beak through the bars of his cage and gnaw off a splinter of wood from the very beam the cashew was resting on, before using the splinter to reel the cashew into his tensile beak.
But that’s not the end of Figaro’s story. Figaro also managed to pass down his knowledge to his fellow cockatoos.
Learn more about Figaro’s story over at Good News Network.
(Image Credit: Alice Auersperg, University of Vienna’s Goffin Lab)
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