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Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists

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Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna found cockatoos dunked food in blueberry soy yoghurt.

Previously found some birds dunk dry rusks in water before eating them.

Now they have found the birds also enjoy dipping pasta into the blueberry flavour.

The team say the birds were probably dunking their food to flavour it.

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