‘Interspecies innovation arms race’: cockatoos and humans at war over wheelie bin raids

Research shows Sydney residents devising increasingly sophisticated ways to keep highly intelligent but bloody annoying' birds out of household waste

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Cockatoos and humans are locked in what Australian researchers have described as an interspecies innovation arms race".

Sydney residents are resorting to increasingly sophisticated measures to prevent sulphur-crested cockatoos from opening and raiding household wheelie bins, detailed in new research published in the journal Current Biology.

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