An arms race over food waste: Sydney cockatoos are still opening curbside bins, despite our best efforts to stop them
Bloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…? And so began an arms race in the suburbs of southern Sydney: humans trying to deter sulfur-crested cockatoos from opening curbside bins, and cockatoos overcoming their deterrents to feast on our food waste.
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