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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.
Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video
#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video
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🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.
Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video
#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video