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Cockatoos Got Rhythm
BBC Knowledge
|October 2017
Birds might generally be better known for their singing, but new research carried out by Prof Rob Heinsohn from the Australian National University (ANU) has proved they can also be a dab hand on the drums.
The palm cockatoo – also known as the goliath or great black cockatoo – is native to New Guinea and to Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, an area of untamed wilderness in the far north of Queensland.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of BBC Knowledge.
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