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A few years ago, a Sydney scientist at the Australian Museum noticed that a sulphur crested cockatoo had opened his trash can. Not every resident will be excited, but the ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by this ingenuity.
For a bird, grabbing the flip lid of the trash can with its beak, prying it open, and then moving far enough along the edge of the container to make the lid fall backwards, revealing the edible treasures inside, which is an amazing Feat.
Out of curiosity, Major collaborated with researchers in Germany to study how many cockatoos learned this technique.
In early 2018, they found through a survey of residents that birds in the three suburbs of Sydney have mastered foraging technology. By the end of 2019, birds had raised trash bins in 44 suburbs.