Goffin’s cockatoos are showing off their culinary skills by dunking their food in water before tucking in. These clever birds have been spotted dipping dry toast – a rusk, in fact – in water before chowing down. Alice Auersperg heads up the Goffin Lab in Austria – she reckons it’s impressive that they go to all this effort to change the texture of their food, making it easier to consume. If you’re a bikkie-with-a-cuppa type of person, you know the drill well…. Earlier this year, these smarty-pants cockatoos were found to be capable of picking and sequencing tools to undertake a task. That made them the only other non-human species known to use tools in the wild other than chimpanzees. Oh, and a wily breed of crow in New Caledonia – but as Moira Rose knows, crows are going to rule the world one day…