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 Snowball [5]—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 Audubon reporter Katherine Tweed reported [6]:
Frostie and Snowball [5]—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 Audubon reporter Katherine Tweed reported [6]:
| Researchers from Harvard University [7] combed through more than 1,000 videos of dancing animals and found that only vocal mimics, including 14 species of parrots, can truly rock to the beat [8]. 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. Both studies support the theory [9] 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 blog [10], and Frostie's Facebook page [11]. And while you're there, why not become a fan of Audubon magazine's Facebook page [12], too? Enough with the self-promotion—here's another Frostie video.