Sydney’s Trash Wars: People And Cockatoos Locked In Escalating ‘Innovation Arms Race’
<p>Sulphur-crested cockatoos, <em>Cacatua galerita</em>, living in the southern part of Sydney Australia, have learned to open household wheelie bins in search of discarded food. As they search for fruits and bread (their favorite snacks), the clever parrots throw garbage on the streets and sidewalks and create a mess. Of course, their feathered friends are watching and learning, so this skill is rapidly spreading throughout the cockatoo community and is creating a local psittacine dumpster-diving culture.</p>
<p>Disgruntled humans are fighting back with a few counter-measures of their own, including bricks, pool noodles, spikes, shoes and sticks. The goal is to stop the parrots from flipping the lid open and accessing the rubbish whilst the container is upright, but allowing the lid to fall open when the wheelie bin is tilted by the automated arm on a garbage collection truck to empty its contents.</p>
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