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These male palm cockatoos have a strange mating ritual. They play the drums to attract a mate. They create their homemade instrument by modifying sticks and seedpods, and then play them in order to impress female cockatoos.

It might sound like just a lot of banging, but the cockatoos actually have distinct drumming styles, and use different rhythms. It's something scientists have never observed in a non-human species before.

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