Few birds are as - hungrily insatiably thirstily unmanageably curious as keas.New research shows how these New Zealand parrots channel that curiosity for maximum benefit: they - lift pick pull take up tips by watching each other.Keas are notorious for investigating and, in the - measure procedure process technique , often destroying everything from rubbish bins to windscreen wipers. Ludwig Huber and colleagues from the University of Vienna have found that in keas, which live in family flocks, social learning affects patterns of curiosity.In their experiments, the keas' task was to open a steel box with a complex locking mechanism. Two birds were gradually trained as ‚models‘ and then they - enacted performed presented staged the task again under the watchful gaze of keas who were new to the job. - Certain Fair Sure True enough, birds who had watched a demonstrationhad a much higher success - occurrence percentage proportion rate than keas who had never watched one.

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