Why do parrots dance

Snowball is a male Cockatoo who became famous all over the world by headbanging while raising one leg five years ago. Being a dancing parrot. If I danced, I didn’t feed it, but why did this parrot dance to the song?

Researchers at San Diego State University say it’s usually thought to be a kind of animal that’s close to humans, but chimpanzees don’t do this. Parrots are special, and it is assumed that responding to music and dancing is related to the parrot’s nerves and cognitive ability.

In September 2008, the researchers began analyzing the snowball dancing scene. At the time, the owner of the snowball explained that he did not dance normally. Snowball dance has 14 movements including head banging. In the video, we classified Snowball’s dance.

According to a paper published in the journal Current Biology, Snowball matches Synth Lofer’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. He said he danced.

When it comes to snowball dance, it can be defined as a deliberate movement, but not an effective means of achieving a goal such as movement. The time to continue dancing is not as good as humans. It is also observed that if you try to dance with someone, you tend to change the way you dance.

How did you learn how to dance with snowball? Whether it is an imitation of a human dance or a simple creative personality. In general, animals are often fed when performing certain exercises, but snowballs are not.

The research team noted five traits common to humans and parrots. It is not voice learning, but the ability to imitate language and movement, form long-term social connections or learn complex continuity, and the ability to pay attention to specific movements for communication. In addition, it is said that dance is not basically evidence of intelligence, but seems to be associated with complex social behavior.

The parrot’s dancing behavior does not arise from simple, inflexible mechanisms, but rather from some neural mechanism that can flexibly produce complex and diverse behaviors such as harmony with music. After all, it seems that parrots have something similar to human dance. Of course, you may be asked why you have the ability or motivation to move your body to music. Related information can be found here .