Snowball has been dancing since he was dropped off at the Bird Lovers Only Rescue in Indiana in 2007. (The bird’s previous owner, who had grown older and could no longer care for Snowball, even left a ...

Image of a sulphur-crested cockatoo. Source: Pixabay In 2009, Aniruddh Patel published a paper in Current Biology about a cockatoo named 'Snowball' who had become a YouTube sensation for bopping his ...

A cockatoo named Snowball earned Internet fame by dancing to a Backstreet Boys song. The video spread across the globe, and videos of Snowball dancing to other music have since appeared. His ...

Cockatoos make such fun pets for so many reasons, but it's hard not to put "good at dancing" at the very top. It's just so funny to see them bust a move, and some seem to have a real talent for it.

Cockatoos can headbang, body roll and sidestep intentionally to music, according to a new study by Charles Sturt University. Researchers have analysed 45 social media videos of cockatoos dancing and ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

From body rolls, to side-steps, to headbangs, Australian researchers have studied the dance repertoire of cockatoos, and investigated why they bust these moves. Companion cockatoos are renowned for ...

Many things make Snowball, a dancing cockatoo, one special bird. In 2007, a YouTube video of Snowball rocking out to the Backstreet Boys went viral, earning him a guest spot on “The Late Show with ...