Meet Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo. Snowball is famed for his ability to dance well to the Backstreet Boys, which made him an instant YouTube star a decade ago. This famed dancer is back with new moves, and his ability to process and creatively respond to music got the scientists’ interests piqued. Rappler has the details:
His rhythmic body-rolls, headbangs, shimmies, and many variations thereof were documented in a new paper published in Current Biology on Monday, July 8.
"This shows for the first time that another species truly dances to human music, spontaneously and without training, just based on its own development and social interaction with humans," senior author Aniruddh Patel, a psychologist at both Tufts and Harvard universities, told Agence France-Presse.
image credit: Irena Schulz/AFP via Rappler
Something about this reminds me of Toothless trying to woo the Lightfury.
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