That is one talented parrot! It knows more dance steps than an average human.👌🏻 If only my parrot would learn how to dance instead of just cursing throughout the day. 😒
@@JesseMiddletonUK Maybe no one in your house, other than the bird cusses around you. Funny thought, a bird giving a audible version of "flipping the bird".
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 It could be that they dance a lot but we don't recognize it as dancing (yet), could be because of their size. They have songs so dancing is very likely. BTW, not that many species of birds dance, at least now as we think or call their movements 'dance.' A lot of singers, but only a few dancers. Like the ratio of ballet dancers to all the rest of human beings. . . :)
My parrot just used to say “Hubba-Hubba”, “ I seeeee you”, “stop lying!”, “to be or not to be, Horacio”, some random cussing, and the typical wolf whistle, but no dance moves except for head-banging. When I took the cover off his cage in the morning, he’d say “FINALLY! I’ve been awake for HOURS!” that he mysteriously did not learn from us.
Acts just like my cockatoo and probably everyone else's cockatoo as well. Of all of the birds that have owned me over the many years that I have had birds, hands down, cockatoo's are in a league of their own!! Not a bird that I would suggest for anyone, as they are very high maintenance, scream, chew and will drive the neighborhood crazy. I left once to the grocery store, only to return to the police at my house when I came home. She screamed bloody murder the entire time that I was gone!! NO joke!! I love her beyond measure, but she has done tens of thousands of dollars in damages in the years that I have had her. They are little Hoodini's that can escape from just about every cage situation. Stick to a parakeet people as large birds do NOT belong in cages or the pet industry. They live a very long time and are prone to abuse due to their behaviors and they are frequently rehomed for this reason. You MUST be committed for life if you have one, because they are so intelligent and form strong bonds with their humans and grieve their loss tremendously!!! Just get a parakeet, okay? I assure you that parakeets are great pets!! I promise!!
People from the 70s: by 2019 scientist would have discovered and be able to fully muster nuclear fusion. The Guardian in 2019: Scientists discovers that Snowball the cuckatoo has 14 distinct dance moves.
Elephants dance too, of their own accord (I know this from Oregon Zoo concerts, which are located close to the Elephant enclosure). Apparently dancing is not unique to humans.
Those poor elephants are in one of the worst elephant enclosures, in which we the people Oregon voted to invest millions to expand it, which of course, they never did. FREE THE OREGON ZOO ELEPHANTS!
I only recently heard about this Snowball. Growing up on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia in the 60s we had a pet cockatoo also called Snowball. He certainly danced as my mother sang at the kitchen window. Tijuana Brass was big at the time so I would sing Tijuana Taxi to him and we would have a great time dancing.
Party for scientists: "Hi, I'm Bob and I'm studying particle physics at FermiLab" "Hi, I'm Susan and I'm studying genetics at the Institute for Human Genomics" "Um. Yeah, Hi. I'm Steve, and I'm an assistant to Professor Patel at Tufts. We study...a dancing parrot"
I thought the same, a giant beautiful bird with no room to spread its wings. None of these birds need be in captivity unless they are rescues and can’t be released.
rosemerie wood they are rescues. Snowball is one too and has become the ambassador for the rescue over the decade. She advocates for birds to stay free but has said that’s the one thing she can’t give snowball or the others because they’ve never lived outside of captivity.
How can I become a scientist that studies dancing parrots?
🛸We were wondering the same lol 😅
First, you have to learn calculus.
Lol!
you have to trick some agency to fund your important dancing parrot research. I wonder what these researchers wrote in their grant proposal lol
@@martinzitter4725 and string theory well.
Y'all killed me w the side to side & butchered me w the headbang lifted foot.
The headbangs had me rolling.
Lol
Headbang lift foot is really air guitar
The lifted foot is this 🤘
this is the kind of scientific study that we need
00:50 headbang with lifted foot: "Oh yeah! We RULE, baby!"
Me: what do u think will happen in 2020 ( thoughts)
Scientist: we identified all 14 dance moves of a beautiful parrot.
Me: I ain't even mad
LOL
Yeah....about 2020...
@@josephparrotta1159Seriously!! :D
The headbang had me in absolute hysterics! Go Snowball! 🐦
for me was headbang with lifted foot.
You should watch Snowball's Tribute to Michael Jackson. He headbangs like crazy to Black or White.
That is one talented parrot! It knows more dance steps than an average human.👌🏻
If only my parrot would learn how to dance instead of just cursing throughout the day. 😒
I had a parrot who would make the Nokia phone beep all the time
-Not Cool Exspesally when you have a Nokia
Jessé Middleton ツ lol!! What words does your’s say?
@@jakenapier6925 The "F-word". What's funny is no one in our house cuss so it's still a wonder how he acquired that. 😅
Maybe you should have TAUGHT him to dance instead of cursing! :)
@@JesseMiddletonUK Maybe no one in your house, other than the bird cusses around you. Funny thought, a bird giving a audible version of "flipping the bird".
I love the other bird in the background trying to learn some moves🤔🤣
That bird gots better dance skills than me😂
Gaurdian finally has real news.
You are lame.
@@offbeat65 Shitwaan E. Am I?
Just because you disagree with news doesn't mean it's not real c'mon you're an adult
I'm quite surprised that a Grauniad journo could spell 'parrot' lol
I know, Jeffness - it's refreshing. But maybe the parrot disapproves of Brexit.
This had me laughing so hard i couldn't hold it at all, what an intelligent animal
Feeling music is more an emotional thing than intelligence thing.
@@happyhaze1526
Ok but whales have the biggest percentage of their brain devoted to empathy/emotions, and yet they aren’t dancers like birds are.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 It could be that they dance a lot but we don't recognize it as dancing (yet), could be because of their size. They have songs so dancing is very likely. BTW, not that many species of birds dance, at least now as we think or call their movements 'dance.' A lot of singers, but only a few dancers. Like the ratio of ballet dancers to all the rest of human beings. . . :)
@@happyhaze1526
Well I have a Pionus (small parrot - not remotely as big as a cockatoo), and he _LOVES_ dancing too. :)
@@happyhaze1526 intelligence comes with more emotion
1:13 Working that Vogue. You go girlfrie...er, Snowball.
Finally some quality content.
TH-cam, WHY AM I ONLY SEEING THIS NOW?
16 different types of people at a concert
But at the same concert??🤔🤨😂
Ha ha! Right?
A testament to how smart they are. My birds all have had different personalities and different dance moves or lack of.
0:45 that headbang was everything
This is possibly the best youtube video ever. All hail Snowball and those dedicated scientists!
Forget global warming and space exploration. We need to look further into this. NOW.
The headbang with lifted foot is actually a fine piece of air guitar 🤘🏻
If I tried to do that headbang with the lifted foot, I'd probably end up in the hospital.
My parrot just used to say “Hubba-Hubba”, “ I seeeee you”, “stop lying!”, “to be or not to be, Horacio”, some random cussing, and the typical wolf whistle, but no dance moves except for head-banging. When I took the cover off his cage in the morning, he’d say “FINALLY! I’ve been awake for HOURS!” that he mysteriously did not learn from us.
Somebody played a prank on you.
Acts just like my cockatoo and probably everyone else's cockatoo as well. Of all of the birds that have owned me over the many years that I have had birds, hands down, cockatoo's are in a league of their own!! Not a bird that I would suggest for anyone, as they are very high maintenance, scream, chew and will drive the neighborhood crazy. I left once to the grocery store, only to return to the police at my house when I came home. She screamed bloody murder the entire time that I was gone!! NO joke!! I love her beyond measure, but she has done tens of thousands of dollars in damages in the years that I have had her. They are little Hoodini's that can escape from just about every cage situation. Stick to a parakeet people as large birds do NOT belong in cages or the pet industry. They live a very long time and are prone to abuse due to their behaviors and they are frequently rehomed for this reason. You MUST be committed for life if you have one, because they are so intelligent and form strong bonds with their humans and grieve their loss tremendously!!! Just get a parakeet, okay? I assure you that parakeets are great pets!! I promise!!
That's not a lifted foot, that's playing AIR GUITAR!
I love and adore my hubs but I’ve got to say Snowball has more moves than he does ❤️
Will Roberts
More than you could even imagine 😂
That’s more dance moves than I have lol
Same here! The next viral video could be us failing to copy a parrot lol
:))
The “headbang foot lift” is his devil horns 🤘🏻
I wanna be a scientist who studies scientists who study how many dance moves a bird has
When I was growing up, I had a parakeet that would actually try to break dance by spinning on his head on his food tray.
This bird is more of a heavy metal rock fan than this background music.
Now this is the kind of news I want on my recommendations!
Someone needs to take this bird to a heavy metal concert. Or give it a wee guitar...
People from the 70s: by 2019 scientist would have discovered and be able to fully muster nuclear fusion.
The Guardian in 2019: Scientists discovers that Snowball the cuckatoo has 14 distinct dance moves.
That's not headbang with lifted foot. That's headbanging with the irons up 🤘
Next: Scientists discover Neapolitan ice cream has three distinct flavors!
I didnt think this would make me crack up, but by the end Snowball got me.
0:48 oh ffs look at him go
This guy is so rockstar it's not even real.
Elephants dance too, of their own accord (I know this from Oregon Zoo concerts, which are located close to the Elephant enclosure). Apparently dancing is not unique to humans.
Awesome!!
Those poor elephants are in one of the worst elephant enclosures, in which we the people Oregon voted to invest millions to expand it, which of course, they never did. FREE THE OREGON ZOO ELEPHANTS!
Flamingoes.
@@heatherkaye8653 I haven't heard the elephants complaining any.
Elephants are so precious.
Wish I were a pirate, with that virtuoso bird perched on my shoulder. Arrhh!
*00:47** SO METAL....*
The kind of science everyone can get down with .
I like the headbanging with lifted foot and counter-clockwise dances the most
0:28 - "I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter"
Aww! That is way too cute!
I only recently heard about this Snowball. Growing up on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia in the 60s we had a pet cockatoo also called Snowball. He certainly danced as my mother sang at the kitchen window. Tijuana Brass was big at the time so I would sing Tijuana Taxi to him and we would have a great time dancing.
I want a snowball to lead my Zumba class!
I loved that, he's a great bird. You are lucky. kisses from Canada.
that’s one happy cockatoo! you can tell because his feathers are fluffed over the bottom of his beak
The headbang 💀💀💀
OMG, Snowball is the best!!! I am laughing so hard.🤣
Have you watched Griffi the dancing cockatoo yet? He doesn't do the normal bird dancing.
Wow. Maybe he could start his own dance studio and teach other birdies!!
‘Pose’ is so 😎 cool.
Party for scientists: "Hi, I'm Bob and I'm studying particle physics at FermiLab" "Hi, I'm Susan and I'm studying genetics at the Institute for Human Genomics" "Um. Yeah, Hi. I'm Steve, and I'm an assistant to Professor Patel at Tufts. We study...a dancing parrot"
Hit em with that semi-circle low
"Well hun...today at work I interpreted bird dance....no no no, not THE bird dance, but A bird dancing" :)
Nobody is talking about how the parrot in the back doesn't ever stand on his wooden stick. He must hate it lol
Nah. He's just on Prozac because he got depressed at not being able to dance.
@@davidwright8432 😂
I thought the same, a giant beautiful bird with no room to spread its wings. None of these birds need be in captivity unless they are rescues and can’t be released.
rosemerie wood they are rescues. Snowball is one too and has become the ambassador for the rescue over the decade. She advocates for birds to stay free but has said that’s the one thing she can’t give snowball or the others because they’ve never lived outside of captivity.
Amusing to imagine a bunch of pocket-protector-adorned nerds in lab coats scribbling notes in a huddle around a dancing bird.
Headbanging with lifted foot is almost too metal🤣👏
Scientists? More like Dance Enthusiasts.
Dances better than many people
That's 15 more than I have.
That macaw in the background looks sad...
Nobody realized they wrote over the font of the original video to make it look like their own?
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen on youtube.
Anyone who has ever owned a macaw already knew this.
...yeah but can he do the running man ?
Does this mean the end of America's Got Talent Show to be replaced by Scientific Judges now!
When a birb has more dance moves then you do........
Heavy Metal at 0:46!
There's no reason to give this a thumbs down. This animal's awesome 🙌😍💕😂
Snowball is a punk fan, this is confirmed by his headbangs and mohawk.
0:52 metal af
OMG HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! DAT BIRDS GOT GROOVE, FUNK & A LITTLE BURLESQUE!!!!
The parrot in the background is so into it!
Snowball is playing the air guitar (00:38, 1:19).
Finally! Some wholesome content to watch before going to work
You’re missing some. Sometimes he does the double foot lift, etc.
Could y’all just let that other macaw out please.?🤦🏻♀️☹️
Snowball is a better dancer than most people.
I love that one of the moves is simply called "headbang". LMAO
Snowball, the Bob Fosse of the parrot world! 😃
Such a talented bird.
Have you watched Griffi the dancing cockatoo? He doesn't do just the normal bird dancing moves.
Bird in back: Imma be that guy one day.
He can really cut a rug! He dances better than me!
0:57 "Semi-circle low" aka "Tu pars du nord-ouest pour arriver au sud-est et tu casses" 😂
When a bird has better dance moves than you do...
0:45 this gives me life.
Definitely deserves to be Viral! How sweet! Would love to hear what he has to say now. Bet, there is plenty! Lotta Personality!
So when Snowball retires he
can move to Miami and
open a salon.
He has more dance moves than me!
He dance better than me
I love the "rocker throwing up horns" move!! so funny 0:49
I wouldn't make too much of it. I have six cockatoos and that's just what they do.
What ever happened to Snowball? Hope he's doing well. Alwaysed loved his dancing
I wish I could still move like that!
Can we all agree that this the kind of news we all want to see in such depressing times?
Props to the backup dancer 0:27
This bird is pure Joy!
U need a scientist to study dance move of a parrot ? Poor scientist, all that study in science for this.
Breezy Bench
It’s worth it lmao.