Turns out humans aren’t the only ones who can keep a beat!
This sulphur-crested cockatoo can dance “in time” to a changing rhythm—and in a particularly impressive display, it can even raise its feathers when the music picks up.
The cockatoo may not know it, but it helped scientists complete their research, published in two papers in Current Biology, demonstrating that nonhuman animals are capable of synchronized movement.
The bird also shows off a catchy one-leg kick that just may start a new dance trend.
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May 1st, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hmm, didn’t I already read about this in the NY Times mag about 5 months ago? Yes, in fact I did — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14ideas-section01-t-003.html — but I guess the news-peg here is the two new papers in Current Biology?
May 1st, 2009 at 3:46 pm
You call the Backstreet Boys “Techno”?
Oh well, at least you didn’t call it Rock.