Wild cockatoos observed using tools as ‘cutlery’ to extract seeds from tropical fruit

Goffin's cockatoos on Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands crafted three different types of tools from tree branches to obtain seeds from sea mangoes

Wild cockatoos have been observed using three types of tools as cutlery" to extract seeds from tropical fruit.

Researchers made the discovery while studying Goffin's cockatoos on the Tanimbar Islands, a remote archipelago in Indonesia.