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  • dancing birds

    I came accross this BBC story, which was about a Current Biology paper, which was regarding teaching Parrots to dance.

    My jaw totally dropped at around 35s when he starting to tap his foot completely differently than he was earlier. Before this time, he had been tapping quarter notes with only his left foot. Then, at 35s, he starts to tap two and four; half notes, alternating between both feet, and swaying back and forth on opposite sides depending upon whether he’s between 4 and 2, or 2 and 4. Meanwhile, he’s counting out quarter notes with his head simultaneously!

    But then I realized this video seemed familiar, and I found this dancing bird with essentially equally good dancing skills.

    Posted on May 1, 2009 ()

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