Clever cockatoo creates his own tools

A cockatoo called Figaro has astonished scientists by figuring out how to manufacture and use tools.

The captive-reared Goffin’s cockatoo uses his bird brain to fashion wooden sticks just the right size and shape for retrieving nuts placed out of his reach.

Austrian animal behaviour experts noticed Figaro was more than just a pretty boy while observing him playing with a stone.