Tag: aniruddh d. patel

Let's Talk About Animals Dancing

A few months ago, we posted about Snowball, the dancing cockatoo. While we were mostly just psyched that an animal was getting down to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody” (seriously, watch the video—it’s amazing), the scientific world was excited for a different reason. It turns out there are a lot of dancing birds, but not many […]

Turns Out Parrots Can Actually Shake Their Tail Feathers

What a week for dance and science, eh? A few days ago we told you about scientists using dancers to “bodystorm.” Now there’s this: While most previously thought that only humans had moves, scientists recently found evidence that no fewer than 15 species of animals can dance. And we’re not talking about the elaborate but […]