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A tui singing in a tree

Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

20 October 2017

Male tui songbirds signal their prowess with complicated songs, so they respond aggressively when they hear a particularly good vocalist
A male cockatoo with a stick

Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves

28 June 2017

In behaviour extraordinarily like ours, male palm cockatoos have been filmed making drumsticks and playing regular rhythms on hollow trees, to attract females

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