Sentences with phrase «cockatoo makes»

Intelligent and friendly, bare - eyed cockatoos make excellent pets for experienced bird owners who would like a cockatoo but don't have the space to keep one of the larger species.

While hand fed Black Palm Cockatoos make excellent, tame pets, they still require firm training and are not for those who are new to keeping large parrots.

For a person that can meet the needs of these magnificent birds, which include the attention and interaction that most parrots crave, Umbrella Cockatoos make fine companions.

They sound nothing like the other cockatoo species, and maybe this is part of the reason why these cockatoos make a tool that they use to make a drumming sound.

Not exact matches

Figaro, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffini) housed at a research lab in Austria, stunned scientists a few years ago when he began spontaneously making stick tools from the wooden beams of his aviary.

Two of the successful cockatoos were later given a chance to make a tool of their own.

The elite club of tool - making animals has a new member: a Goffin's cockatoo named Figaro who lives in an aviary west of Vienna.

While the ability to use and / or make tools is often an inborn trait, the Goffin's cockatoo can invent them largely through flexibility.

Cockatoos can learn how to make tools from each other, scientists from Oxford University, the University of Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute at Seewiesen, have found.

In the experiments one cockatoo group was allowed to observe Figaro skilfully employing a ready - made stick tool, while another could see what researchers called «ghost demonstrations» — either seeing the tools displacing the nuts by themselves, while being controlled by magnets hidden under a table, or seeing the nuts moving towards Figaro without his intervention, again using magnets to displace the food.

Goffin's cockatoos can learn how to make and use wooden tools from each other, a new study has found.

Instead of a dog, they had a cat, and before that a cockatiel and a cockatoo, sea monkeys, lizards, gerbils that made more gerbils, one regrettable guinea pig.

I seemingly commiserated with him, noting I'd put a mop and a bucket in my cockatoo's cage and he made no effort to clean up.

A flight cage made for small birds such as parakeets and cockatiels may be large enough to house a cockatoo.

Marion Zoological Scenic Paradise Food Marion Zoological's Scenic Paradise Food is made up of round - shaped morsels with a light, crunchy texture for large and medium - sized parrots like African greys, macaws and cockatoos that prefer to pick up food with their beaks.

Larger parrots like the cockatoos, amazons, greys and macaws are extremely intelligent birds with lots of personality and make fantastic pets for people who are home most of the day and want a pet that loves to interact with its owner.

There are many common and uncommon types of animals that make for good pets, including dogs, bearded dragons and cockatoos.

If you are thinking about bringing a sulphur - crested cockatoo home, make sure to do plenty of research before you make a purchase.

The fact that they don't require as much space makes the Goffin's cockatoo a popular pet with those who don't have room to house a larger cockatoo species.

If you do consider a pet cockatoo, it is imperative that you make sure that you have plenty of free time to spend socializing with your bird.

A bored cockatoo is likely to chew on whatever's available, especially walls and furniture made of wood.

The emotive argument that we need to eradicate all cats and make owning one illegal because they kill native birds like sulphur crested cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets, galahs, eastern rosellas and noisy miner birds falls to the ground when you know the conservation status of all these birds is least concern.

These large bird cages are made for those very select types of birds that are in a category of their own... Specifically, Hyacinth Macaws, Blue & Gold Macaws as well as bigger Amazons, African Greys, and Cockatoos.

Tapping up to a hundred times on a hollow tree trunk — which, by the way, almost always makes a good nesting place — the male palm cockatoo tries to lure a female to come and check him, and maybe their future nesting home, out.

The morning time songs of Yellow - crested cockatoos and Nicobar pigeons make a wonderful start to your day.

This tranquil and peaceful setting is home to unique Australian wildlife in it's natural surrounds — kangaroos, emus, echidnas and a prolific variety of colourful birdlife that makes this natural paradise their habitat — wild ducks, pelicans, waders, parrots, pink cockatoos, galahs, magpies and many other varieties.

You can even make a weekend of it and stay overnight in Cockatoo Island's luxury tents.

Our last couple of days in Sydney were spent in the city itself, making the most of its local attractions such as the Australian Museum, Darling Harbour and Cockatoo Island!