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Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.

It's been a little while since we did one of our up-to-date segments where we cover what's interesting to us of science in the news.

So we're going to do just that this time.

Welcome back, Adam. Thanks for having me. And of course, science forges ahead. So there's lots of

interesting things coming out in the literature and look forward to discussing a few with you.

So one that caught my eye because it also involved a kind of citizen science element, which is always really cool. And it's just a

simple behavior of an animal that was observed by a bunch of people. And it tells us something

really interesting about sort of the evolution of social behavior. So this is a article that was

in science, animal culture, or in the subtopic animal culture.

And the first author is Barbara Klump with Lucy Applin being the senior author.

It's called Innovation and Geographic Spread of a Complex Foraging Culture and an Urban Parrot.

And essentially it started out with a couple of

email exchanges where people were, these researchers were talking about how they observed a cockatoo

doing something really interesting. It was opening up a household garbage bin. Okay. Like do you mean

those litid blue, black and green bins we put out in front of our

street every week? Exactly. So you can imagine that that's kind of a gold mine of food for any

animal, but that, you know, we have those lids on it for a reason in part to prevent animals from,

you know, going in and making a big mess. But these particular cockatoos figured out how, or I started maybe with one,

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