Art Birds Dance to Music: Harvard Grad Films Cockatoo Jamming to Backstreet Boys

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A Harvard grad student captured a cockatoo dancing to the Backstreet Boys, highlighting the rhythmic abilities of birds. The discussion includes personal anecdotes about musical birds, such as a budgie that danced to various music genres and a lyre bird known for its impressive mimicry skills. Participants express fascination with the lyre bird's sounds and discuss the potential influence of human behavior on animal dancing. The conversation also touches on the broader implications of animal rhythm and movement, with references to a peer-reviewed journal article in "Current Biology" that features the cockatoo's dancing. Overall, the thread emphasizes the intriguing connection between music, rhythm, and animal behavior.
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Boogie birds have got the beat.


Speaking of musical birds -
 
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I've had a horrible day, that's just what I needed to pick my spirits up. Thanks for posting it.
 
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Speaking of musical birds -


That lyre bird footage is absolutely amazing.
 
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I bought Party Girl for W as a birthday gift a few years ago. She was a budgie. (Ill-tempered little beast.) This was before we put my mother in the home, so Lucifer T. Cat was still with her. When we let the bird out of her cage, she'd perch on the CD storage rack or on top of a speaker and just bob her little head off to whatever was playing.
As much as we hated each other, we seemed to have a mutual enemy in George Jones. (I detest cowboy music.) No matter where we placed that CD in the rack, Party Girl would find it and **** on it. :biggrin:
 
Interesting, Fuzzy. I don't usually pay much attention to nature stuff, but that was pretty cool.
 
Absolutely fascinating! The sounds that lyre bird makes are almost unbelievable.

Astro, your second link is dead.
 
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This seems to me to raise the question : have they previously seen humans dancing ?
 
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humanino said:
This seems to me to raise the question : have they previously seen humans dancing ?

If he did, then he must have been watching nerds. :biggrin:
 
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I found some humans dancing ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBNoFcvcWI

 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Absolutely fascinating! The sounds that lyre bird makes are almost unbelievable.

Astro, your second link is dead.
I fixed the second link. It's about a lyre bird that mimics chainsaw, camera, music, DJ.

I've seen them in person. They are intereting creatures - and noisy too.


Last night I hear an owl making a sound like a chainsaw. I awoke from sleep thinking "who in the heck is using a chain saw at 3:30 in the morning".
 

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