Human children often copy their friends’ preferences for toys or clothes, while adults are prone to jumping on popular diets ...

Learn how cockatoos figure out what’s safe to eat by watching each other, and how that knowledge moves through a flock in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Some have claimed she's indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio de Janeiro's zoo. Either way, a blue-and-yellow macaw that ...

A new study in PLOS Biology has shown that wild sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney learn to eat novel foods primarily by watching and imitating others in their social group. Researchers found ...

Like humans, parrots are social creatures. “Although we know that wild parrots and some other animals have vocal signatures ...

Wild parrots learn whether new types of food are safe to eat by observing other members of their social group, allowing dietary knowledge to spread ...

More conservation good news: a macaw species once thought to be Extinct-In-The-Wild is now recovering its numbers, thanks to intensive conservation efforts An adult pair of blue-throated macaws (Ara ...

A new study shows wild sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney adopt novel foods by copying peers, with juveniles showing ...

The Lear’s indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leari, has always been mysterious. Although this spectacular cerulean parrot with its long pointy tail was first described in 1856, its natural range remained ...