Snowball, the internationally famous dancing sulfur-crested cockatoo, has been busily creating new dance moves to further impress scientists
That study was notable in part because it showed that a cockatoo naturally does what people can do -- dance -- a behavior that even our closest relatives, chimpanzees and the other great apes, cannot do.] showing he spontaneously synchronized his movements to the beat of music, something seen in every human culture but which had never been observed in a non-human animal,” Professor Patel explained in email.
To further quantify these diverse new movements, Professor Patel and his collaborators filmed Snowball dancing to two classic rock and roll hits from the 1980s: “Another One Bites the Dust” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” During filming, Ms. Schulz was in the room, occasionally shouting “good boy,” but Snowball was the only one dancing. The research team played the two tunes three times each for a total of 23 minutes.
Indeed, the new videos confirmed that Snowball was responding to the music with diverse and seemingly spontaneous movements using various parts of his body. “We found preliminary evidence that Snowball dances differently to the two different songs, but we would need to collect more data to confirm this,” Professor Patel added in email.
The researchers propose that the reason humans and parrots share a natural ability to dance may arise from the convergence of five capacities:the capacity for nonverbal movement imitation, which is “a surprisingly complex ability” attentiveness to communicative movements, which “relates to attending to the structure of movements, not just the consequences of actions”
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