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Sydney’s Trash Wars: People And Cockatoos Locked In Escalating ‘Innovation Arms Race’

Sydney’s Trash Wars: People And Cockatoos Locked In Escalating ‘Innovation Arms Race’

Crafty cockatoos are learning new ways to open wheelie bins to access food waste, so people are learning new ways to prevent this, leading to an innovation arms race between cockatoos and people

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Winged Warrior. A sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, prepares to land on a wheelie bin in Sydney. (Credit: Leo / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

“It’s moves and counter-moves, and it’s all we gotta look at.”

— Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)

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