![]() ![]() ![]() The four-minute video has been viewed more than seven million. More recent videos show he’s also a fan of Lauper and Queen, showing off diverse and spontaneous movements that use various parts of his body, despite receiving no formal dance training. WASHINGTON: Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, shot to YouTube stardom a decade ago for his uncanny ability to rock out to the Backstreet Boys. Watching Snowball the cockatoo dance to Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust has long been one of the joys of the internet. Ms Schulz took a video, uploaded it to YouTube and – within a month – Snowball was a celebrity. His former owner reportedly left him with a Backstreet Boys CD, and a tip that he loved to dance.Ĭentre director Irena Schulz told The Atlantic that when she played the Backstreet Boys’ Everybody, Snowball “immediately broke out into his head-banging, bad-boy dance”. The sulphur-crested cockatoo has shown hes not just a one-hit wonder, with new footage released today showcasing the birds diverse array of dance moves to two classic 80s songs. Snowball has lived at the Bird Lovers Only rescue centre in Indiana since 2007. The sulphur-crested cockatoo has shown he's not just a one-hit wonder, with new footage released today showcasing the bird's diverse array of dance moves to two classic 80s songs. Irena Schulz, YouTube Snowball the cockatoo got Internet famous in the late 2000s when a video of him dancing to the beat of. Such moves also occur “in parrots, perhaps because they are vocal learners whose brains contain strong auditory-motor connections”, which gives sophisticated processing abilities, the researchers said. Snowball, the dancing cockatoo, has at least 14 distinct dance moves. The study, published in Current Biology on Monday, said “spontaneous movement to music occurs in every human culture and is a foundation of dance”. Before her parents (and their 3 dogs, 3 bunnies, 1 cat, and 1 wallaby) adopted Audrey, she had been plucking out her feathers in stress following. “What’s most interesting to us is the sheer diversity of his movements to music,” said the study’s senior author Aniruddh Patel, a psychologist at Tufts University and Harvard University. After filming the cockatoo dancing to '80s classics Another One Bites the Dust and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, scientists recorded 14 different dance moves. Theyre not dancing just for their TikTok channel, either its for their rescue cockatoo, Audrey This feathered girl loves to dance, and shes only recently discovered this hidden talent of hers. ![]()
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