Body rolls and headbanging: we found cockatoos have 30 different dance moves

By Raf Freire, Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Charles Sturt University

Companion cockatoos are renowned for their problem-solving and intriguing characters. It’s no surprise these large, long-lived and intelligent parrots are known to display complex behaviour.

Owners often film their birds dancing to music and post the videos to social media. Snowball, a famous dancing cockatoo, has been shown to have 14 different dance moves.

We wanted to find out more about the dance repertoire of cockatoos and why they might be doing this. In our new…

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