Aniruddh Patel is a neuroscientist who studies how the brain and the nervous system contribute to learning, seeing and other mental abilities. After seeing a YouTube video of a cockatoo dancing named Snowball he decides to visit this dancing bird. Mr. Patel works at the “The Neurosciences Institute” in San Diego, visits Snowball at a bird rescue facility which Snowball calls home. Patel plays the cockatoo’s favourite song “Everybody” and other versions of this song were sped up or slowed down, Snowball danced too fast or too slow sometimes. When the tempo was changed Snowball had to adjust the speed of his dancing to match the rhythm, other scientist observed the same abilities with preschool children in other experiments.
Mr. Patel isn’t the only one who studied Snowball’s moves, Adena Schachner, who studies psychology at Harvard University, also wanted to learn more about this amazing cockatoo, so Schachner’s team played different musical pieces for Snowball and a parrot named Alex, as well as eight volunteers. Both scientist observed the bird’s and the eight volunteer’s moves and conclude they both kept time to the music with about the same accuracy. Schachner and her team didn’t stop there, she and some of her colleagues watched thousands of YouTube videos of different animals moving to the music, and not all animals could dance, however.
1) Do you think other animals have this ability to dance and keep a beat?
2) Do you think that animal have other human ability example: like talking, writing?
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1. probably, but i am not aware of any. Im sure in the future animals will develop more abilities like this one.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, for sure. Look at parrots and their ability to mimic human voices - who knows what could happen.
1. i think the animals don't have the abilities to dances but yes to keep the beet because when the listen to the music they might try to follow the beat as if there was pattern.
ReplyDelete2.yes; of coarse the animals can speak but with different kind of sound because they must have a certain way to communicate between them.
1.yes like my cat he is not dancing but he move his head at the beat of my music
ReplyDelete2.maybe speak but not read
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ReplyDelete1. Well your last sentence says that not all animals can dance and keep a beat, so I'm guessing no. But I'm sure a lot of animals can keep up with a beat because most of them respond to sounds. However, I don't know if all have the ability to dance.
ReplyDelete2. Animals can talk, or communicate, between each other. For exemple, ants communicate by feeling each other's antennas and dolphins make sounds to communicate. Some parrots can even talk our language if they are taught to do so. Though, I don't think any animal can read, except maybe for a monkey, which has a lot of abilities and skills that we, humans have.
1-I guess yes. If we can, why couldn't they?I mean, they still hear and they can move so they can have a beat.
ReplyDelete2-I don't think they can speak. They can communicate, but not speak.
1. I think that some animals have this ability but, not very many.
ReplyDelete2. yes I think some animals have the ability to speak and parrots copy what humans say. also some animals intract with each other by speak but in a different sound. Kkind of like how their are different languagesand not everyone can follow them.
1.-Probably, because in the future they maybe develop abilities like this one.But probably one keeping the beat because they may try to copy the beat of a song.
ReplyDelete2.- Of course they have their own language that the way they can communicate themselves like wolfs howl in the night.