Saturday 1 July 2017

Cockatoo Makes Music With a Stick, Defying Darwinian Expectations

Image courtesy of Doug Janson, Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).



Joel Kontinen

Previous research has shown that cockatoos are better tool makers than chimps.

And there’s more. A recent paper on 18 palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) published in the journal Science Advances looks at the birds’ ability to make their own drumsticks and produce a rhythmic beat.

In contrast, chimps (that evolutionists hail as our cousins) can’t make music instruments.

Even crows beat chimps in intelligence and innovation, defying Darwinian expectations.

Source:

Wagner, Andrew. 2017. Watch this cockatoo make music with a stick. Science (28 June).