A parrot that dances 14 types of dance to music
'
Spontaneity and diversity of movement to music are not uniquely human: Current Biology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822 (19) 30604-9
Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/snowball-the-dancing-cockatoo-has-wide-range-of-killer-moves-new-study-finds/
Irene Schulz is the owner of Snowball and co-author of the research paper presented this time. She posted a snowball movie that dances to music on YouTube in 2008, and has attracted public attention. Snowballs were popular around the Internet, and appeared as TV commercials.
You can see in a single shot the following movie to see how Snowball dances to music.
Snowball's Tribute to Michael Jackson-YouTube
So far, only certain types of animals have been thought to have special brain circuits that can respond to rhythms and beats. Humans have the ability to learn and imitate complex voices, and it was believed by Aniruddh Patel of Tufts University that this is an important element to respond to music. However, seeing how Snowball dances to music, Patel expresses his own surprise, 'It looks like a dog is reading a newspaper,' and 'non-human animals spontaneously 'I have never seen how to dance to the sound.'
Therefore, Patel asks Schulz for research cooperation, and asks him to shoot for a few months how he is dancing with music that he likes snowballs. From this film, it was demonstrated that Snowball danced to music. This was also shown in the 2009 research paper that studied snowballs. The latest research, published in 2019, has also found that Snowballs dance several different types of dance, and show some movement as if trying a new dance movement.
The following movie shows the behavior of trying out different types of snowball dances, which was shot in the research. You can see various dances trial and error, such as shaking your head up and down like a head banging, shaking the whole body up and down gently, and shaking your head left and right.
Snowball, the dancing cockatoo-YouTube
In the experiment, he listened to Queen's ' Another One Bits the Dust ' and Cindy Roper's ' Girls Just Want To Have Fun ' three times each for a total of 23 minutes. A movie containing snowball dances is analyzed frame by frame, without speech, by R. Joanne Jao Keeh, who learns about classical and contemporary dance. It names the movements recognized as dance.
As a result of the analysis, Patel and his team identify that Snowball danced 14 different dances. Patel explains that snowballs can dance because they have five different qualities, five of which are 'voice learning ability' and 'non-verbal movement imitation' 'The ability to learn a series of complex behaviors,' 'the ability to form long-term social bonds,' 'the ability to pay attention to communication behavior.'
It is not clear if there is a pattern in the Snowball movement, and 'there is not enough data to answer this question,' Patel said. Continuing, 'Snowballs are not performing routines in a dance like
So is Snowball a choreographer-like parrot who comes up with a new dance? Although Snowballs do not imitate the movement of the owner Schulz, 'It is possible that the parrot can imitate the movement, so it is possible to see the movement of someone else. 'Even if you're dancing with a copy, it's definitely a more sophisticated dance than other animals do, and it's amazing,' said Patel. Furthermore, like aquariums and zoo animal shows, they are characterized by not being dancing for food rewards. Patel points out that for Snowballs, the reward for dancing is to draw attention and to suggest an aspect of social communication.
Patel et al.'S research team is experimenting with playing music at a place without their owner, Schulz, to see if social communication might have influenced the snowball dance.
In addition, it is not only snowball that dances to music. According to a research conducted by researchers at Harvard University in 2009, we searched movies posted on YouTube to find animals dancing to music, and dancing to sounds just like snowballs It seems to have succeeded in finding 33 birds.
Related Posts:
