Zac Efron’s brother Dylan meets a cockatoo while in far north Queensland, Australia

Dylan Efron revealed he’s been getting up close and personal with the locals while in the tropical Whitsundays in Australia.

In a series of posts on Instagram on Friday, the 29-year-old filmmaker and younger brother of actor Zac Efron revealed he’d bonded with a sulphur-crested cockatoo.

‘Some conversations with the locals,’ he captioned a series of videos of himself talking to the bird.

In one video, a tired-looking Dylan sipped from a takeaway coffee cup and said: ‘Oh, I’m feeling that. Fun night though, right?’

He then turned the camera to the cockatoo, which sat on the table on his hotel balcony, looking at him inquisitively.

A second video showed a shirtless Dylan lamenting about how ‘hot’ it was, while complaining about not being able to ‘cool off’.

‘How are you holding up?’ he asked the bird, which continued to sit alongside him silently. 

In a third video, Dylan could be heard singing the opening lines of Pure Imagination from the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

He began to serenade the cockatoo with his impressive vocals, before trailing off in laughter.   

Dylan also shared a series of selfies with the bird on Instagram Stories on Friday and revealed: ‘This lil guy joins me whenever I sit on the balcony’.

He also shared a video of the bird sitting on his towel, which he’d hung out to dry on the railing of his hotel balcony.

‘Dude! That’s my towel… Thank you,’ he told the bird, before it casually shuffled off it.

Dylan has been in Australia since February, as he films for the second season of his brother’s docuseries, Down to Earth with Zac Efron.

The Netflix series follows Zac, 33, and wellness expert Darin Olien as they travel the world in search of healthy and sustainable ways to live.

Meanwhile, Dylan has enjoyed meeting the local wildlife, sharing photos and videos of himself cuddling up to a variety of animals, including a kangaroo and Tasmanian devil.