Dancing Cockatoo Shakes His Tail Feather
Move over, Snowball. The latest dancing bird sensation is Frostie. The video above shows the 21-year-old bare-eyed cockatoo rockin' out to Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair." (It's dubbed. Scroll down for a video that shows him cutting a rug to, appropriately, Ray Charles singing "Shake Your Tail Feather".)
Frostie and —a medium sulphur crested eleanora cockatoo that grooves to the Back Street Boys, Queen, among other artists—aren't the only birds with rhythm, as ÃÛèÖAPP reporter Katherine Tweed :
Frostie and —a medium sulphur crested eleanora cockatoo that grooves to the Back Street Boys, Queen, among other artists—aren't the only birds with rhythm, as ÃÛèÖAPP reporter Katherine Tweed :
| combed through more than 1,000 videos of dancing animals and found that only vocal mimics, including 14 species of parrots, can truly . This confirmed other findings from scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego who studied a cockatoo that changed up its dance style as music was played faster or slower during a dance session. that moving to the music relies on the same brain wiring that is used for complex learning.
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Given that videos of Snowball and Frostie have gone viral, it's only fitting that each has his own website. Check out Snowball's , and . And while you're there, why not become a fan of , too? Enough with the self-promotion—here's another Frostie video.