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Is that Goffin’s cockatoos are just a zoomy.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

The restaurant has a small ranch where customers can observe a variety of exotic animals, such as Amazon cockatoos, fainting goats and the koi fish, said Silvia Duarte, who owns the business with her husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

The shipment of animals from Moscow also included two yaks, five cockatoos and dozens of pheasants as well as mandarin ducks, Kozlov's office said.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

The cockatoos sometimes devoted considerable time and energy to the task, actively transporting the rusk to water and then waiting for it to soften.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023

Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French