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How did cockatoos learn to operate a water fountain? Here's how

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Scientist Barbara Klump saw some cockatoos operate a water fountain in Australia .

Video footage showed how the birds could use their claws and body weight to turn the spring-loaded handle to activate the water flow.

Klump and her co-authors dubbed it a form of “urban-adapted local tradition” and the first of its kind, to their knowledge, ever seen in sulfur-crested cockatos.

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