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Good morning and welcome the Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. And we begin with researchers crowing about a crackle of cockatoos.

A group of the birds in Sydney, Australia, has learned how to use their feet to grip and turn the handles at a public water fountain to get a drink.

They apparently picked up the skills by watching humans.

More than two-thirds of the birds in the area

have learned the trick, and researchers speculate they may actually be doing it just for fun,

since there's a nearby creek they could easily drink from instead. This isn't the first time

cockatoos have learned something from watching people. They've also been seen using their beaks

and feet to lift

trash bin lids in search of food. Some very smart kids are opting for some very dumb phones. The number

of high school and college students realizing that 24-7 connectivity is not necessarily healthy is on the rise.

So they're going retro, ditching their iPhones and Androids in favor of old-fashioned flip phones

with no internet and only slow texting.

Among the converts, Sean Killingsworth, who told USA Today,

he saw his peers turning into a social wasteland of zombies,

unavailable for social connection. He flipped in high school and went on to start a smartphone-free

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