Whales, dolphins, parrots, hummingbirds and elephants can dance Bashny.Net

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People - not the only kind that can learn to dance to the music. Scientists have found a link between the ability to imitate sounds and the ability to dance.

There is a small group of different types of animals that can dance and it includes whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, elephants, several species of bats, parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds. The ability of these animals to move to the beat of the music depends on the strong ties between the auditory and motor systems.



Parrots are particularly well move to the beat rhythmically shaking his head. For example, two Internet sensation, Alex, an African gray parrot, and Snowball, white cockatoo, a very incendiary move when they hear their favorite songs. You may think that they have been specifically trained to do certain movements at certain points in the song, but the scientists who have studied these two birds, conducted tests to find out whether this is so.



They included music that parrots have never heard, at different speeds, and the birds all the time to catch the rhythm and soon began to swing tail feathers and dance to the music.

via factroom.ru