A Dancing Cockatoo Named Snowball Learned 14 Moves All by His Little Bird Self, Researchers Say

A dancing cockatoo named Snowball. A Patel/Neurosciences Institute via CNN

Snowball can headbang, vogue and body roll as well as, if not better than, any rhythmically inclined human. Never mind he’s covered in feathers.

The sulphur-crested cockatoo broke big on YouTube in 2007 for his toe-tapping, head-bobbing performance to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody.” But after spending a decade studying his wide repertoire of bangs, hops and lifts, researchers suggest that parrots and humans share a tendency to dance when the music moves them.