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Does a Dancing Cockatoo Really Feel the Rhythm?
Discover Magazine has an interesting story about Snowball, the dancing Cockatoo. Apparently, it's not a trick and the bird can actually recognize different beats and tempos and come up with the appropriate dance moves.
"At first, Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues had doubts. Snowball’s owners say they actually would dance off-camera while filming the bird to encourage it to bust a move. If Snowball were just a copycat, Patel says, that wouldn’t be nearly as impressive as if he could dance on his own. So to figure out whether the bird could actually feel the rhythm, they traveled to Snowball’s home in Indiana and videoed the bird dancing to music with different tempos. "
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