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Snowball The Dancing Cockatoo Vogues And Body Rolls On Beat

A new study finds that Snowball, a dancing cockatoo, has a repertoire of at least 14 different dance moves, suggesting that the predisposition to dance is embedded in our animal brains.

Snowball the cockatoo got Internet-famous in the late 2000s, when a video of him dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral.

, who is now a psychology professor at Tufts University, was astonished when he saw the video on Youtube a decade ago. "I said, in 2009.

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