Cockatoo rocks out to AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Birds can hold a beat too!
Tonto, a gorgeous umbrella cockatoo, appears to get his groove on when his owners play legendary rock band AC/DC's iconic 1980 track, "You Shook Me All Night Long," in the above clip.
See more: Dogs play piano with owner
While the music plays, Tonto lifts his crest in excitement, bounces and bobs to the beat and sounds like he's even saying "rock and roll" around the 2:18 minute mark.
According to Nature, this dancing bird's display is not unique within the species and long before Tonto, other cockatoos have been getting their groove on for years.
Does everyone remember Snowball the sulphur-crested cockatoo's epic dance to Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" from back in 2007?
In the video, Snowball stamps his feet to the rhythm of the rock song and also bobs his head to the beat, an act that researchers have "subjected to scientific scrutiny" and ultimately arrived at "the conclusion that Snowball really can dance."
See more: Elephant plays the harmonica at the zoo
Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, examined Snowball's dancing technique by playing music with different tempos and found that, "On each trial he actually dances at a range of tempos."
"When the music tempo was slow, his tempo range included slow dancing," Patel discovered. "When the music was fast, his tempo range didn't include these slower tempos. To us, this shows that he really does have tempo sensitivity, and is not just 'doing his own thing' at some preferred tempo."
In addition, Patel also believes that the bird's dance ability could "shed light on the biological bases of rhythm perception, and might even hold implications for the use of music in treating neurodegenerative disease."
See more: Puppy sings and plays piano
Explaining his findings, Patel says, "Music with a beat can sometimes help people with Parkinson's disease to initiate and coordinate walking." Adding, "But we don't know why. If non-human animals can synchronize to a beat, what we learn from their brains could be relevant for understanding the mechanisms behind the clinical power of rhythmic music in Parkinson's."
The question is, which bird do you think has the better dance moves?
Follow me on Facebook and Twitter @GraceS35
More Up Beat stories
Video: Can autotune make people a better singer?
Our Lady Peace drummer makes video for Heart & Stroke Foundation
