Birds, Dance, and Neuroscience on YouTube

This video is sure to brighten your day! Apparently it was thought only humans could dance to a beat. Lots of animals can be trained to go through the motions, but they cannot actually respond to music in complex ways. That was until the world discovered Snowball the Cockatoo!

Check out additional video with the NPR story: Parrots Join Humans On The Dance Floor. See also the abstract of the article by Adena Schachner in Current Biology.