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 rapidly through the community, according to a study ...

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

If a friend eats it and seems fine, they sneakily follow suit. This is the “social cue strategy” used by wild parrots (large ...

Cockatoos rapidly learn to eat unfamiliar food by copying companions, highlighting the power of social learning in urban ...

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...