Cream the butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract. Add the flour, and mix until well combined. Chill the dough for about 30 minutes. Scoop the dough onto parchment paper-lined pans. Bake until the ...

Snowball the dancing cockatoo became the subject of a Harvard University study in 2019. Animal behaviour researchers concluded that he "responds to music with remarkably diverse spontaneous ...

In addition to being a dance enthusiast, Snowball the cockatoo is a massive fan of the band Queen. Or, at the very least, he can’t get enough of their song “Another One Bites the Dust”– which, let’s ...

Snowball can headbang, vogue and body roll as well as, if not better than, any rhythmically inclined human. Never mind he's covered in feathers. The sulphur-crested cockatoo broke big on YouTube in ...

(CNN) — Snowball can headbang, vogue and body roll as well as, if not better than, any rhythmically inclined human. Never mind he’s covered in feathers. The sulphur-crested cockatoo broke big ...

Soon after the preliminary Snowball paper (Patel et al., 2009) was published, Snowball's owner, Irena Schulz, noticed that her pet cockatoo was making some dance moves she'd never seen before ...

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2007 file photo, Snowball, a medium sulfur-crested Eleonora cockatoo, dances to the Backstreet Boys song "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" in the Schererville, Ind., home of ...

(CNN) — Snowball the dancing cockatoo can headbang, vogue and body roll as well as, if not better than, any rhythmically inclined human. Never mind he’s covered in feathers. The sulphur-crested ...

Snowball tends to dance in snippets of 3 to 4 seconds. Although his dancing is similar, each tune elicits slightly different moves, suggesting that the parrot is flexible and perhaps creative.

Snowball’s story began in 2007, reports Ed Yong at The Atlantic, when the cockatoo’s original owner surrendered him to the Bird Lovers Only rescue center in Dyer, Indiana.

This story was published on July 9, 2019. Snowball the cockatoo is changing the way we think about music, culture and human evolution with his fresh and funky dance moves. Scientists at Tufts ...

Snowball, a cockatoo, first went viral for its dance moves in 2007. Now, scientists believe he's taught himself 14 distinct moves.