Birds dance to music

[marcus]

http://www.livescience.com/animals/090430-birds-dance.html

Grad student at Harvard filmed a cockatoo dancing to the Backstreet Boys.

 

[Astronuc]

Boogie birds have got the beat.


Speaking of musical birds -

 

[hypatia]

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

 

[marcus]

Speaking of musical birds -

That lyre bird footage is absolutely amazing.

 

[Danger]

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.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks Marcus, that is just fantastic!

There was mention of chimps in the article, and although maybe a bit of a stretch, and not necessarily about keeping a beat, this account of Chimpanzee Rain Dancing is interesting, starting on page 60-
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#PPA60,M1

 

[Danger]

Interesting, Fuzzy. I don't usually pay much attention to nature stuff, but that was pretty cool.

 

[glueball8]

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/08-09/qq-2009-05-02.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Absolutely fascinating! The sounds that lyre bird makes are almost unbelievable.

Astro, your second link is dead.

 

[humanino]

This seems to me to raise the question : have they previously seen humans dancing ?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This seems to me to raise the question : have they previously seen humans dancing ?

If he did, then he must have been watching nerds.

 

[rootX]

I found some humans dancing ..

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

 

[Astronuc]

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".

 

[marcus]

The cockatoo dancing made it into a peer review journal.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)00890-2
"Current Biology".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The cockatoo dancing made it into a peer review journal.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)00890-2
"Current Biology".

I didn't realize that Biologists were dance critics! :tongue2: