“Snowball the Cockatoo is helping researchers study dancing in animals - more than a decade after he first became a YouTube sensation.

The talented bird may never have had a dance lesson in his life, but he managed to wow scientists with 14 different moves as he bopped along to 80s classics.

The sulphur-crested cockatoo was filmed swinging from side to side, lunging and lifting his foot as he grooved to Another One Bites The Dust and Girls Just Want To Have Fun.

Snowball showed a more diverse range of motions when bopping along to Cyndi Lauper's 1983 classic, however.

Scientists led by a team from the University of California, San Diego believe his 'remarkably diverse spontaneous movements' show that dancing is not limited to humans but a response to music when certain conditions are present in the brain.”

https://mol.im/a/7224653

has way better moves than me.

The parrot is not impressed.

Are they surprised that a bird is dancing? Aren't birds universally known for their mating dances /displays?

Now if they started to do karaoke or even a dance off I could see this being a new development.

How awesome is that!

My Cici has learned to put together the words she knows into new sentences now.
She said, "come with daddy go nite nite" Monday night when I wanted to take her to watch tv with me.
She'll say "daddy shower shower" when I come out of out master bath now too.
I'd tell her "shower shower" when I'd put her on her shower bar and bathe her.
She put the rest together herself.

That is cool.

Up until the part where she says:

Alexa, Five bags of pine nuts and some spray millet. Priority shipping please.

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How awesome is that!

My Cici has learned to put together the words she knows into new sentences now.
She said, "come with daddy go nite nite" Monday night when I wanted to take her to watch tv with me.
She'll say "daddy shower shower" when I come out of out master bath now too.
I'd tell her "shower shower" when I'd put her on her shower bar and bathe her.
She put the rest together herself.

I said this before - if Men were birds, only a few would be clever enough to be a crow.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
How awesome is that!

My Cici has learned to put together the words she knows into new sentences now.
She said, "come with daddy go nite nite" Monday night when I wanted to take her to watch tv with me.
She'll say "daddy shower shower" when I come out of out master bath now too.
I'd tell her "shower shower" when I'd put her on her shower bar and bathe her.
She put the rest together herself.

I said this before - if Men were birds, only a few would be clever enough to be a crow.

We have been feeding birds at our house for about a year. Along with the other Louisiana style birds we have about 6 or so crows and I've been throwing some white bread in the yard that they seemed to like.

I've read that crows can learn your face and remember you. They fly away when I go out but I still talk to them as they fly away.
I also read that the may bring you a gift and yesterday when I went out there was a rock by my walk in the grass that wasn't there the day before. I wonder if they brought it to me?

Yes, crows and some other corvids, ravens, perhaps, have this little habit of leaving an exchange gift. Nobody knows why, and until we find a valid method of communication we'll never know.

The lady raven who lived with my Uncle Ted would often leave a brass hat badge from a Royal Mail postman's peaked hat.

We never found out where they came from until after he died, and she had gone away.

Her home was the old coach shed, adjacent to the house, which had been built in the 1830's or so. When we were sorting out Ted's stuff, we found a pile of around fifty or more such badges in the eaves of the roof, all stolen off their hats by this lady raven over a period of around twenty-five years that she'd lived with Uncle Ted.

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Yes, crows and some other corvids, ravens, perhaps, have this little habit of leaving an exchange gift. Nobody knows why, and until we find a valid method of communication we'll never know.

The lady raven who lived with my Uncle Ted would often leave a brass hat badge from a Royal Mail postman's peaked hat.

We never found out where they came from until after he died, and she had gone away.

Her home was the old coach shed, adjacent to the house, which had been built in the 1830's or so. When we were sorting out Ted's stuff, we found a pile of around fifty or more such badges in the eaves of the roof, all stolen off their hats by this lady raven over a period of around twenty-five years that she'd lived with Uncle Ted.

Thanks tac I'll keep an eye out for gifts. I always love reading your post

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I also read that the may bring you a gift and yesterday when I went out there was a rock by my walk in the grass that wasn't there the day before. I wonder if they brought it to me?

I have a box of crow treasures brought to me.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:I have a box of crow treasures brought to me.

Me, too!

Who knows what significance they might have to the bird? I know what each of them means to me.

It is nothing less than communication across the unimaginable gulf between species.

Each little item a priceless gift.

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Originally posted by charlie12:

I also read that the may bring you a gift and yesterday when I went out there was a rock by my walk in the grass that wasn't there the day before. I wonder if they brought it to me?

I have a box of crow treasures brought to me.

Do they have a certain place they leave them for you?

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Originally posted by charlie12:
I've read that crows can learn your face and remember you.

We don't have crows here, but ravens. We used to have an Ibizan Hound that did not allow overflight in our back yard. She would go out and chase away any large birds that were flying low or perched on the fence. The ravens obviously learned her, and would tease her mercilessly by flying low, over and over, to keep her barking and chasing.

Crows are smart indeed. When I did a lot of bicycling I frequently saw dead birds in the road, hit by cars. But I never saw dead crows, even though they’re often in the road eating insects or carrion.

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Do they have a certain place they leave them for you?

On the top step of my back porch by the door.

Every time.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:

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Originally posted by charlie12:


Do they have a certain place they leave them for you?

On the top step of my back porch by the door.

Every time.

They were in the yard a few minutes ago. I threw our some more bread and seeds.
I picked up the rock and brought it in. If it was them maybe they'll bring me something else. Looks like we are going to get a hurricane so it might change everything for a few days.