This repository contains the underlying data and code to reproduce the manuscript "Temporal dynamics and policy implications in an innovation arms race". The repository contains the following data sources: 1) anonymized observational data of bin protections used by residents in a suburb of Sydney Australia from 2023 and 2024, 2) observational data of bin-opening behavior by colour-marked sulphur crested cockatoos, 3) an experimental assay of cockatoos' knowledge states regarding bin opening and bin protection, 4) simulated data from a spatially explicit agent based model of an innovation arms race. We have provided R code to reproduce all tables and figures from the study, as well as Python code to run the agent based model. For more details, please see the readme.md file.