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Snowball - Our Dancing Cockatoo (video)

— youtube.com — Snowball is a Medium Sulphur Crested Eleanora Cockatoo that dances to the Back Street Boys and other... songs that he rates as having a "very good beat."... (more) Snowball - Our Dancing Cockatoo (video)

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Birds can dance, proving humans aren't the only ones with rhythm
Mongabay.com News — Birds can dance, proving humans aren't the only ones with rhythm Jeremy Hance mongabay.com April 30, 2009 Another ability long-thought to belong solely to humans, like tool-use or counting, does in fact occur in other species, according to two new studies. In this case, it is the capacity to move rhythmically with music. Studying two different birds the research groups found that the birds weren’t just moving randomly or mimicking owners, but actually changing the tempo of their movement to match the music—in other words, dancing. "Our analyses showed that these birds' movements were more lined up with the musical beat than we'd expect by chance," Adena ...

Alex the parrot and Snowball the cockatoo show that birds can dance
Not Exactly Rocket Science — Snowball, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, is an internet superstar. He's known for his penchant for grooving to music, notably Everybody by the Backstreet Boys. As the music plays, Snowball bobs his head and taps his feet in perfect time with it. If it speeds up or slows down, his rhythm does too. He is one of two parrots that are leading a dance dance revolution, by showing that the human behaviour of moving in time to music (even really, really bad music) is one that's shared by other animals. People who've attended parties at scientific events may question the ability of humans to move to a beat, but it's a fairly universal skill ...

Seeking Your Questions About Snowball, the Famous Dancing Cockatoo
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) — Search Concisus Vitae [image] GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early ...

Seeking Your Questions About Snowball, the Dancing Cockatoo
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) — Search Concisus Vitae [image] GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early ...