Punks are not dead. This cockatoo is living proof of it. Isaac Sherring-Tito was recently walking down a street in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, and spotted something spiky falling from above. When he looked up, Isaac discovered a cockatoo tearing up an anti-bird system so that it could walk along freely.
Immediately, Isaac began to record the badass bird that was making its way along the ledge, picking up and dropping every section of the contraption. The smart vandal can be seen using its beak and feet in a very conscious act of rebellion.
As you might have guessed, wild cockatoos are native not only to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands but Australia as well. Their lifespan is up to sixty years, depending upon the species (there are 21 of them). The oldest cockatoo in captivity was a Major Mitchell’s cockatoo named Cookie that lived at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and lived to be 83 years old (1933–2016).
Like all parrots, cockatoos are zygodactyl (’they’ve got two toes pointing forward and two backward). That, complemented with the use of their beak, makes cockatoos able to use their feet like we use our hands and makes them terrific climbers. Or destroyers.
Watch the bird in action below:
It turns out, this particular cockatoo is a local celebrity:
Here is what people said about the crazy video:
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