Many can name a panda or a pangolin, but the yellow-crested cockatoo barely gets a nod. That’s wild, considering this little parrot has a built-in mohawk and enough personality to fill a room. But ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The population of critically endangered ...

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” ― Baba Dioum (1937 - current) A recent deep dive into the ...

New genetic research from the University of Hong Kong has confirmed that two cockatoos believed to be the same species are actually two distinct species. Cockatoos are a chatty bird found in the wild ...

Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree.

Sulphur-crested cockatoos have previously mastered garbage bins. Now, it’s water fountains. In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into ...

In 2008, a YouTube video featuring an Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral. His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body ...