Drumming Cockatoos Tap on Trees to a Beat (2 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Drumming Cockatoos Tap on Trees to a Beat (2 of 8)

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A male palm cockatoo drums with a stick. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Heinsohn at Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia, and colleagues was titled, 'Tool-assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music.'

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[Credit: C. Zdenek]

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