[Air-L] YouTube Research Demonstrates Birds can Dance

[Steve Cavrak]

  Head-banging parrot proves birds can dance

  * Story Highlights
  * Scientists: Dancing parrots prove ability to recognize music not  
unique to humans
  * YouTube hit Snowball the cockatoo dances to Back Street Boys, Queen
  * Ability to keep time apparently linked to vocal mimicry,  
scientists believe
  * Other animals capable of mimicry include dolphins, elephants,  
seals, walruses

updated 46 minutes ago

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/01/dancing.parrots/index.html

In a study lead by Adena Schachner of Harvard University, researchers  
examined more than 1,000 YouTube videos of dancing animals and found  
14 types of parrot species and one elephant genuinely capable of  
keeping time.