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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2025-02-12 07:30 pm
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something cheerful, which I think we can all use

Cool animal behavior result: cockatoos dipping their noodles in soy yogurt, with a preference for blueberry yogurt rather than plain. The article comes with a warning not to feed dairy yogurt to your pet parrots.

The only other example the researcher could find of animals only the second example of animals flavoring their food was an article about macaques dipping potatoes in salt water, from 1965.


(posting this also means I can find the article again.)
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[personal profile] adrian_turtle 2025-02-13 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Why is this night different from other nights?
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On other nights, we might or might not dip our food. Tonight we dip twice: once in salt water like our macaque cousins and once in fruit paste like our bird neighbors.
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[personal profile] kaberett 2025-02-13 08:00 am (UTC)(link)

That is delightful - thank you!

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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2025-02-13 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Bwee :)

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[personal profile] tarasacon 2025-02-17 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Neat! 🙂